Top tips: A guru's words

One of the first Asian makeup artists to gain fame in the west, cosmetics pioneer Shu Uemura died recently aged 79. As a teenager he enrolled in the Tokyo Beauty Academy - the only man in a class of 130.

His big break came in 1955 when a makeup artist from the set of Joe Butterfly, a Hollywood production being filmed in post-war Tokyo, came to the beauty school in search of a male assistant and so began Uemura's career as a makeup artist.

Here are some of his most famous musings on beauty:

Never stop thinking, improving and innovating.

Listen to your skin.

Skin care is about giving your skin only what it needs.