VANESSA CRAFT is a lifestyle journalist and author based in Toronto as the Beauty Director for ELLE Canada.

Her writing on beauty, fashion, entertainment and travel has appeared in numerous media outlets including the Globe and Mail, The Sunday Times UK, the BBC, More, Channel 4.com and FASHION magazine. In 2010, she won the P&G Beauty & Grooming Award for Best Beauty Feature.  Vanessa is also the founder and editorial director of the sports gossip website Kickette.com, which won Cosmopolitan UK’s Best Celebrity Blog 2010 Award. She is a consultant for Offside Media.

Vanessa got her start in the biz via fashion journalism, interning for The Sunday Times Style section in London, England before moving into music and entertainment writing. This involved much industry hob-nobbing and interviewing music luminaries like Mary J Blige, Amy Winehouse and Alicia Keys. Interviews mainly consisted of Vanessa begging her subjects to let her join their band.

Pop culture is Vanessa’s first love, but alas, the pull to fashion, beauty and luxury travel soon wooed her back to the dark but well-dressed side, where she now resides quite happily surrounded by designer loveliness and beauty products that promise to anti her age.

The most important bit: Vanessa’s debut novel, Out of Character , is an unconventional, sexy and edgy coming-of-age story set in London’s upper class mansions and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs.  Click here to buy, and remember, every time a copy is sold a little tube of over-priced lipstick gets its wings. 

To watch the book trailer, click the image below, and enjoy!