Trinny Woodall grew up the youngest of six children, three of whom were from her banker father's first marriage and were much older. She has always wanted, she says, to shake things up. There is a buzz in the building and Trinny is loving it all, embracing, she admits, her new life as a beauty-business disruptor. "She arrived in, soaking wet," says Trinny, "saw me and said, 'Oh, I didn't know you'd be here yourself." Trinny herself has done much of the hands-on work, including the make-up of a woman who travelled up from Cork in the pouring rain, without an appointment. She's in Dublin for a Trinny London event that has seen hundreds of women visit a grand Georgian house, where each floor has make-up stations and make-up artists, conducting consultations and make-overs. I'm not bossy, but I will just never sugar-coat." "I think there's a difference between bossiness and straight-talking. "I'm tremendously forthright," Trinny says when I ask if she's bossy. She talks about her sometimes lonely childhood, her 'lost' partying years, her huge success with Susannah and then the loss of that, her difficulties getting pregnant, divorce and the death of her ex-husband, her make-up idea and her recent happiness with her partner Charles Saatchi - art collector and ex-husband of Nigella - all with the same note of onwards and upwards. And she at least gives the impression of being happy to share it all, not least because, given she's in the business of asking others to bare their souls to her, she should at least give something of her stripped self in return. Picking yourself up and starting again is a recurring theme in her life, a form of keep calm and carry on.
It's not the only point in the course of the conversation that Trinny characterises herself at a crossroads. It's not just because, with the benefit of hindsight and the subsequent success of her make-up start-up Trinny London, she can look kindly on that time of turmoil. Trinny doesn't sound at all distressed as she recalls this period. "You know," she goes on, "I could get a consulting for a clothing firm, but what else? It's really tricky, and people say, 'Oh but you've done so much, you can do stuff', but it is tricky to get a job when you kind of dug yourself into a rather unique hole."
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