Nichola Rush is the proprietor of Boux Makeup Studio & Academy (Photo: Bruce Rollinson)Mum-of-five Nichola Rush, proprietor of Boux Makeup Studio & Academy in Morley, is up for Best Makeup Artist and Best Brows in the UK Hair and Beauty Awards. The 42-year-old solely based her enterprise in May, providing accredited makeup programs in addition to forehead and makeup therapies.She will compete towards different Leeds and Wakefield companies in the hope of representing the space in the national finals subsequent yr.“I’m so grateful,” Nichola advised the Yorkshire Evening Post. “It’s good to get that recognition as a result of I work so exhausting. I’ve bought 5 youngsters, I’m a single mum or dad and I put all my coronary heart and soul into it, ensuring I give the finest to my college students. Sometimes it may possibly really feel such as you do it for nothing, however for somebody to recognise you and inform you your work is sweet – it actually means a lot.” Nichola has been shortlisted for Best Makeup Artist and Best Brows in the UK Hair and Beauty Awards 2023 (Photo: Bruce Rollinson)Nichola has labored in the magnificence trade for greater than a decade and has been a make-up artist for six years, working cellular and renting chairs in salons, however she has at all times needed to show makeup and lastly took the plunge to get her personal giant studio area this yr.Boux Makeup Studio & Academy, in Station Road, provides eyebrow therapies comparable to HD brows and laminations, in addition to makeup for weddings and occasions. And an enormous a part of the enterprise is increase the subsequent technology of artists – Nichola has created bespoke, accredited make-up programs with a mixture of principle and sensible work.Nichola stated: “I’ve actually bought a love for instructing and displaying individuals how one can do make-up. All my college students do principle previous to attending, it’s all on-line, so once they come into the academy they will get right down to studying makeup – what we need to do.“The suggestions has been superb, they completely like it. They like that I get them to be fingers on immediately as an alternative of simply watching, it’s good to have the ability to get in and check out new methods. I present all the merchandise and tools; they’ve simply bought to discover a mannequin.”Nichola juggles her full-time enterprise with being a single mum or dad – her youngest youngster is 15 months outdated and she was again at work simply two weeks after having her child.“Everybody asks me how I do it,” Nichola stated. “I didn’t actually cease working, as a result of if you happen to cease working on this trade you’ve bought to choose it again up once more.“Covid dried our trade up fully. We misplaced prospects and even once they had been allowed again, they had been nonetheless scared. We’ve needed to construct it again up and I believe it’s solely simply getting again to the place it was now. And now we’re getting a recession!”Nichola added: “I get a kick out of constructing individuals blissful. When any individual involves me and says they’re garbage at makeup and they don’t know how one can do it, and then leaves so happy with the work they’ve produced, that’s what makes me blissful. I actually get a buzz out of it.”
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