Profile

JO GLANVILLE-BLACKBURN is the freelance Beauty Director for Woman & Home Magazine. She also contributes to several leading newspapers, including  Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and FT How To Spend It. She also has her own beauty photography/design company: Plum Studio, co-run by her partner/husband James Stanton. Jo has written 11 books. Three books for Harper Collins: Make the Most of your Eyes, Make the Most of Your Lips and Timeless Beauty, published in October 2001. A New You in 21 Days was published by Quadrille in 2004. Jo has also written five books for Ryland Peters & Small - Home Spa: Vitality, Home Spa: Relax (published in 2003), Blooming Gorgeous - beauty and wellbeing in pregnancy (2004), Marvellous Motherhood (2005), A Passion For Perfume (2005) and A Passion For Lingerie (2005). Her latest book, Spa Bliss, was published by Duncan Baird in 2007.  

Jo has also been as a regular beauty expert on Channel 4's hugely successful 'How to Look Good Naked'.

Biography

Jo Glanville-Blackburn is well known health and beauty expert, who writes regularly for a number of publications including Financial Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Times Style, Sainsbury's Magazine, Woman & Home.

Having originally studied Fashion Illustration and Photogrpahy, Jo began her career as a freelance illustrator with clients that included Cosmopolitan, the Daily Telegraph, 19, Folio, and various PR clients. She then moved into styling and writing at Options and SHE magazine before becoming the Beauty Director of Good Housekeeping Magazine. While at Good Housekeeping Magazine Jo was one of the presenters of the Good Housekeeping Show broadcast on Granada Breeze.

Jo has written several books for Harper Collins: Make the Most of your Eyes, Make the Most of Your Lips and Timeless Beauty, published in October 2001 and her next two books, Home Spa: Vitality and Home Spa: Relax were published by Ryland Peters and Small. A New You in 21 Days was published by Quadrille in 2004. The book is about looking and feeling the best you possibly can right now - whatever your age. It offers very real, in-depth but easy to follow advice, step-by-step routines and fast track ways of dramatically improving your energy, fitness, appearance and ability to cope with stress.

Jo has also written five books for Ryland Peters & Small - Home Spa: Vitality and Home Spa: Relax (published in 2003) which are available worldwide; Blooming Gorgeous - an inspiring pregnancy beauty and wellbeing book that is now available in eight different countries (2004), Marvellous Motherhood - the sequel - how to look after yourself now you've got your body back (2005). Her two latest books are A Passion For Perfume (2005) and A Passion For Lingerie (2005), beautiful gift books to inspire. Her latest book, Spa Bliss, was published by Duncan Baird in 2007.

Jo has recently been a regular beauty expert on the radio and Channel 4's 'How to Look Good Naked'. She is currently the Beauty Director of the highly successful magazine Woman & Home, aimed at building the inner and outer confidence for the 35+ woman.

Updated 5/3/2009