Adwoa Aboah's life in beauty, from punk 1990s eyeliner to her Botox in a bottle

Growing up, I loved that 1990s punk black eyeliner. All the girls at my school were doing the Maybelline dream matte mousse, which wasn't a vibe, but obviously I looked up to that and thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

- MADELEINE SPENCER

Thank god I didn’t go down that route, because I didn’t really understand foundation and skin tone — I just wasn’t clued up. I never did the thinned-out or plucked-out eyebrows, but I always thought they were pretty cool. Like everyone around that time, I was very into Destiny's Child and the Spice Girls — the major players of the 1990s.

I feel like now people are obsessed with freckles. It wasn’t like that when I was younger, when everyone had that flat, one-colour face with foundation all over it. I just wanted that too and didn't understand how it would be possible with freckles. But now they paint them on! One of my best friends said to me recently that she'd copied me and was putting them on her eyelids to make them look more realistic, like mine. I now think they're beautiful and it’s great we're seeing amazing-looking people with freckles. I wonder if my baby daughter, Shy, will have them — I wasn’t born with them, they appeared later on.