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MANY Brits are using coronavirus lockdown as an excuse to ditch their punishing beauty regimes - embracing greasy hair, hairy legs and bushy brows.
But one lass who won't be joining them is Love Island's Belle Hassan, who sees she's wearing "more make-up than ever" in self-isolation.
The 22-year-old reality star, who's currently on lockdown at her family home in Bromley, Kent, also admitted she's "petrified" about not being able to get her nails done because of coronavirus.
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, as brand ambassador for The Eyelash Emporium, she said: "I am more glam now than I am in general.
"Because I’ve got nothing to do I’m like ‘f*** it, let’s do my make-up, let’s do a tutorial video’. I probably wear more make-up now in isolation than I have ever done.
"I'm spending an hour to an hour and a half doing my make-up every day, I've got the time so why not?
"Normally, unless I've got an event or I've got pictures to take for work, I won't wear a lot of make-up. I'm quite comfortable in my own skin."
As well as her make-up tutorials, Belle is spending her days "eating loads of s*** and walking the dog".
Mum-of-three Stacey Solomon said she's stopped shaving her legs during self-isolation, while Big Brother's Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has traded her £1,000-a-month salon regime for a full lockdown beauty detox.
But Belle won't be joining them, telling us: "I am absolutely not getting involved in that. I am definitely shaving my legs. I can’t do it, I can’t.
"I was thinking about taking all my extensions out. But I am scared, I don’t want to do it.
"Maybe fake tan (for a detox). I’ll say it, but I’m definitely not. I’ll get to a few days and I’ll be like ‘f*** this, I can’t do it, I can’t stick to it’.
"I get my nails done regularly. I am really worrying about how long the shop is going to be closed for. I am petrified.
"I have stocked up on so much nail glue, if I snap one, everyone in this house is going to pay for it.
"Whoever snaps that nail will not want to isolate with me at all. Can’t have that."
I am more glam now than I am in general. I probably wear more make-up now in isolation than I have ever done
Belle Hassan
Make-up artist Belle shot to fame on last summer's Love Island, entering as one of the Casa Amor girls who went onto steal Scot Anton Danyluk's heart.
He was famously a fan of grooming too, admitting he got his mum to shave his bum on the show (a job Belle later turned her hand to).
The couple lasted just five weeks outside the villa, before Belle got sick of Anton's partying and they called it quits.
But she says it's the boys she's remained closest to, becoming a counsellor for their tumultuous love lives.
Belle said of her fellow Islanders: "I speak more to the boys, I'm like a little sister to them. They always call me like 'Belle this girl followed me' or 'I've got this problem, that problem'.
"I still talk to Michael (Griffiths, who is now single again after splits from Amber Gill on Love Island and Ellie Brown on Ex on the Beach), Jordan (Hames) and Joe (Garratt).
"Joe only lives at the end of my road so we do our blogger stuff together, like our pictures.
"I am every form of counsellor to those boys. I am literally their little sister.
"They’ll call me with any problems they have, if they’ve had a row with their mum, asking 'what should I wear?', 'I’ve done this, I’ve done that', 'I’m getting my hair cut today does it look s***?', 'does this outfit look s***?', 'do you think this is directed at me?'
"I’m like ‘boys, f*** off, I’ve got my own problems!’ They just come to me with any gossip.
"They know I don’t talk about it, if they tell me anything it’s staying padlocked up in my brain."
Belle, who had a blazing row with Anton after the villa's Snog, Marry, Avoid challenge, said people's biggest misconception of her is that she's "hard-faced".
She said: "A lot of people think I’m quite hard-faced and emotionless. But I’m not, I am quite sensitive and I’m hard on the outside but I’m soft on the inside.
"I’m quite caring. But I think a lot of people just see me as this loud mouth that doesn’t really give a s*** about anything."
Speaking about her new role with The Eyelash Emporium, Belle said she became addicted to the brand while on Love Island.
She said: "When I was doing Love Island, they had their lashes in there. I used to use them all the time and I just really, really love them.
"I was really big fan and when they said they wanted to make me an ambassador I was like 'oh my God, no way'.
"I love how fluffy their lashes are and that they have so many different styles. You can stack all their lashes and they're so easy to clean. The glue's amazing too."
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