Both women are self-confessed make-up obsessives, but each has their own peculiar fetish. Ruby remembers watching her very glamorous mother making-up. "When it was time to go out she always looked amazing and I remember standing at her dressing table just taking it all in. Umpteen lashes, hair pieces, wigs - I just took it all in." Aged 10, Ruby wouldn't leave the house without two black lines drawn on her eyes. Soon she was in the habit of creating a day face and an evening face with "no two faces ever being the same." Even as a student (Ruby has a degree in Economics) she never ventured out without putting her face on.

Millie says that Ruby became a professional make-up artist because "she got bored putting make-up on her own face!" Millie's passions were not inherited from her mum ("she's a hippy") but from her grandmother. "I used to watch her with her Nivea cream and spitting into a block of mascara - it was all about the creams and fragrances and I'm much more into the persona of make-up - the image, the style."

Millie's bathroom is a shrine. "I am not an avid make-up wearer but I am an avid collector," she confesses. "I have to have every single colour and whether it's a hair band or a bindi, I have to have all these things around me displayed in my bathroom in a straight line polished a clean. I spend hours cleaning my bathroom."