Celebrity makeup artist Elaine Cruz has built a career around creativity, beauty and making people feel seen. But her own experience of being seen hasn’t always been quite so straightforward.

In this Hue Sesh, Elaine talks candidly about growing up and building a career as a woman of colour in Ireland, colourism and tokenism in the beauty industry, representation that arrives as an afterthought, and the years she spent trying to make herself smaller.