'I want to empower whoever is in my chair'

Make up artist Jade said she wanted to empower her clients

A make up artist featuring on BBC Three's show Glow Up said she aims to empower her clients and make them "feel their most confident self".

The show brings together 10 make-up artists to battle it out to see who will be crowned Britain's Next Make-Up star.

One of the contestants, Jade, said her work was about making people feel good about themselves.

To that end, the 25-year-old volunteers for Look Good Feel Better, a charity delivering skincare and make-up workshops for people undergoing cancer treatment.

"They have these up and down the country," said Jade.

"We do a little bit [of make up] on them, but essentially it's a workshop.

"So we teach them just the basics of skincare and make up, and more so than anything it's just time out, a couple of hours to forget about the outside world and meet other people who are going through the same things and... just have fun."

She added that the workshops also educated people on how to manage skin changes brought about by cancer treatment.

Jade is one of the cast members for the new series of Glow Up

Jade said her friends and family had been telling her to apply to Glow Up for "years".

"I never wanted to put myself out there, I didn't think I had what it took," she said.

But when one of the casting team reached out to her, she said she just thought "why not?".

She takes her inspiration from Asian bridal make up, and found some of the show's creative briefs took her out of her comfort zone.

"I'm very much a perfectionist," she said. "I found it very stressful."

But she said the show had also taught her a lot, adding: "Sometimes it doesn't work."

"You might need to adapt it to the model's features, or might just be having an off day or nerves get the better of you," she said.

"But I think that's the whole process and learning curve of being an artist under pressure.

"It's all about being adaptable."