Journalism
Twenty-five years writing about beauty
Sigourney Cantelo has been a beauty editor since 2001 and was Beauty & Health Director at Vogue Australia. Her work has run in Vogue titles internationally, in marie claire and Sunday Life, and — since 2014 — on Beauticate, which she founded and edits.
Where the work has run
- Vogue AustraliaBeauty & Health Director2008–2014
- Vogue China, Korea and PortugalSyndicated beauty features
- marie claire AustraliaContributing beauty writer
- Sunday LifeBeauty columns and features
- New WomanBeauty Director
- GlamourBeauty writer
- Body+SoulBeauty and wellness writer
- BeauticateFounder and Editor-in-Chief2014–
Selected interviews
Her 2009 interview with Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper for MAC Viva Glam, reported in New York, was syndicated by seven editions of Vogue worldwide.
Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper
MAC Viva Glam, New York, 2009
Claudia Schiffer
On chronic shyness
Catherine Zeta-Jones
On skincare
Michael Kors
On style
François Nars
On makeup
Miranda Kerr
Eva Herzigova
Raquel Zimmermann
Abbey Lee Kershaw
In the room
Cate Blanchett
Miranda Kerr
Elle Macpherson
Celeste Barber
Naomi Watts
Heidi Klum
Eva Longoria
Rita Ora
Trinny Woodall
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
The subjects
Reported beauty features
Ingredient science, industry shifts and the claims behind them — reported properly, with the dermatologists and formulators on the record.
Interviews
Long-form interviews with the people who shape the industry, and with the people the industry is about. Also the basis of Beautiful Inside by Beauticate.
Product criticism
Everything she recommends, she has used. That has been the rule since the beginning, and it is the reason the recommendations carry.