**Life before Euphoria (and discovering a love of facial embellishments)**

Davy’s obsession with sparkles didn’t start with Euphoria. “I used rhinestones and glitter on an A24 film called Under The Silver Lake,” she explains. A24 is known for its independent films and TV shows and came to be a poignant creative partner for Davy: it’s now the parent company for her own make-up endeavours.

“It stars Andrew Garfield and he has all of these wild female characters around him. That was the birth of Euphoria make-up. I got the job to come and interview for Euphoria based on my work on that. It’s a goldmine of cool looks and make-up moments,” Davy says.

“One of the reasons why that movie appealed to me is that I really grappled in terms of my own ethics with being a make-up artist and making people look prettier,” she says. “Simply being a make-up artist, to make someone look the best version of themselves, was – morally – something I really had problems with. When I found the right projects – Under The Silver Lake, Euphoria – where I got to make characters feel gritty but have these interesting looks at the same time, that was when it all clicked for me.”

Later, Davy tells me she’s passionate about undoing the problematic, antiquated rules that exist in the beauty industry. “It pisses me off when people are told they can’t wear a certain style of make-up because they’re older, or because they have hooded eyes,” she says. “I want to help people unlearn this system, there’s a lot more to do bit my entry point to that was with glitter and rhinestones.”

The woman behind the magical make-up: Donni Davy on her love of rhinestones, glitter and the Euphoria phenomenon