I didn’t even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work. – Zoe Foster Blake
I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it’s wonderful. – Zoe Foster Blake
No one reads my books until they’re finished because I don’t want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path. – Zoe Foster Blake
I’ve written everywhere – in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus. – Zoe Foster Blake
I’m pedantic about lip balm. I’ve been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days. – Zoe Foster Blake
I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it’s the momentum and process I enjoy most. – Zoe Foster Blake
Life isn’t always really glamorous and fabulous. It’s about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty. – Zoe Foster Blake
I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn’t normally – it has been proper legitimate fashion. – Zoe Foster Blake
Marriage isn’t always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it’s important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them. – Zoe Foster Blake
I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I’d need a break from one style when going into the next book. – Zoe Foster Blake
Obviously there’s a lot more to a TV show than just a book… I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they’re worried about upsetting the author. – Zoe Foster Blake
I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently. – Zoe Foster Blake
I guess the headline is that you mustn’t tough it out assuming it’s ‘normal’ to feel incredible pain when you’re preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn’t getting any better. – Zoe Foster Blake
I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability. – Zoe Foster Blake
Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you’re a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy. – Zoe Foster Blake
I really like funny women. I’m drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They’re writers, they’re producers, they’re actresses. They’re brilliant, funny, excellent women. – Zoe Foster Blake
When I first have an idea, I’ll spit-ball it with my husband: he’s my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I’ll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there’s four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product. – Zoe Foster Blake
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot. – Zoe Foster Blake
