CosBeauty Magazine

SYDNEY’S NEW SPACE FOR vegan beauty

Charmilla Herath is sitting pretty. Quite literally. She is perched atop a stool in her perfectly pink beauty parlour in Sydney’s Strand Arcade, long golden legs crossed, eyes sparkling and a wide smile on her exceptionally pretty face.

She is reminiscing on her journey from the six-year-old girl who would tame her best friends’ unruly brows in the bathroom of her family home, to the global brow and make-up artist who shaped the arches of the world’s biggest supermodels at London, Paris and New York Fashion Weeks.

Milla, as she is better known to her friends and clients, has an impressive resume, having worked with and launched collections for global heavyweights including Laura Mercier, Becca and pout.

But back to brows and her parents’ bathroom …

‘I have always been obsessed with brows,’ she laughs, when I quiz her about her salon-style set up in the

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