After decades working as Australia's top award-winning makeup artist making other people beautiful, Suzi Dent found herself a first-time beauty queen at the age of 55.

She had to get comfortable in dresses and learn how to stand and walk in high heels, after a life-time of dressing down and trying to cover her body.

She shares with us, in her own inimitable style, the laughs and lessons she's learned about women, beauty and ageing.