Julia said, opening the large swing doors of the department store. Gillian followed. She had been in Brown Thomas a few times but couldn’t honestly say that she had ever bought anything there except an eye liner. She remembered feeling terribly guilty afterwards as it had cost a day’s salary. Julia walked up to the Clinique counter and gave the perfectly primed girl at the counter a warm hug. She turned to Gillian. “This is Gillian – Gillian meet Tony, my lifesaver!” Tony held out her hand and at the same time scanned Gillian’s face, observing the poorly applied layer of make-up with no colour at all on her eyes or cheeks after her day in the office. “Lovely to meet you, Gillian – would you like me to touch up your make-up as well?” Gillian nodded. She had never had her make-up applied professionally. Tony set to work on Gillian, first fixing her eyebrow line which was scraggy.
