My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces. – Louise Nurding
If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you’re in the public eye, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt when people say things. – Louise Nurding
I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did – they didn’t want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover. – Louise Nurding
It’s inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it’s something you have to accept. – Louise Nurding
I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good. – Louise Nurding
The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I’d be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I’m not very good at relaxing! – Louise Nurding
I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you’re young, you should enjoy the fact your skin is free from lines and wrinkles rather than overloading it with products. – Louise Nurding
I’m a big fan of Tony Blair. I’m not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person. – Louise Nurding
When I’m up on stage, I don’t think about anything except the song I’m singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can’t think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! – Louise Nurding
I love Stella McCartney because she’s timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability – you don’t need ‘an occasion’ for her clothes. – Louise Nurding
I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I’m very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition. – Louise Nurding
I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding. – Louise Nurding
One thing I wish I’d done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick. – Louise Nurding
I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, ‘Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice’. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you. – Louise Nurding
I’d love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa – maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we’ve deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories. – Louise Nurding
I’m not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don’t dress up for the papers. – Louise Nurding
There are hundreds and hundreds of women who are married to footballers, and we get to see a very small handful of them. They are all different individuals, and they choose the way they want to live their life or look, and I don’t think it is really fair on anyone else to judge. – Louise Nurding
I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too. – Louise Nurding
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don’t speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can’t have it. – Louise Nurding
The footballers’ wives I know, they’re teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son’s nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count. – Louise Nurding
Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses. – Louise Nurding
I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else. – Louise Nurding
I have quite dark skin, and when I had my son, I suffered quite bad pigmentation; I had dark patches on my face. Everyone said it would go, but it would take a very long time for them to even slightly disappear. – Louise Nurding
For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer’s leg isn’t at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone’s dead in the face, it’s really boring. – Louise Nurding
The thing about dads is, even when they’re very good, they don’t do anything like as much as most mums do. – Louise Nurding
Your soulmate doesn’t just mean your husband or your boyfriend. I have friends in my life who I believe I was meant to meet and be a part of. – Louise Nurding
The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you! – Louise Nurding
