Beautician honoured with royal warrant by Queen Camilla blasts filler-obsessed stars for ‘static’ look & ‘fish lips’

QUEEN Camilla’s beautician had given her opinion on filler-fanatic reality stars for their “static” faces. 

Deborah Mitchell, 56, from Wolverhampton, who gained a royal warrant for her bee venom products and treatments in December, has spoken out about the trend of injecting filler.

Deborah, has treated Camilla for 18 years, has also worked with a host of A-listers, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Victoria Beckham, Tess Daly and Cameron Diaz.

Speaking about the pressures of people to look like cosmetic surgery-enhanced celebrities, the beautician told Fabulous: “Why would anybody have all their lips filled, or have it all look like a fish?

“The problem is, people are looking very, very static, aren’t they? They want to look more static. 

“I think education would be very good for these people, because I’m talking to you, and you can relate to me because my face is moving.

“Now, if my face didn’t move – I’ve just lifted my eyebrow up there – you don’t relate to me in the same way.

“Our facial cues give us a warm feeling or a frightened feeling.” 

Deborah said she isn’t against people doing Botox but claims it can’t fully work on static lines, unlike her Bee Venom Mask from her skincare company, Heaven.

She explained: “I don’t like to say [the Bee Venom Mask is] an alternative to anything. I don’t like to exclude anybody using it

“Why it works so well is because, say, with injectables, you inject one particular area, you don’t inject the whole face. 

“You can’t inject the eyelids or anything like that.

“With injectables, they only work on lines that are movable lines. So it stops lines moving with injectables. That’s how it works.

“So with static lines, lines that are there all the time, it can’t work on that. So injectables can’t work on that. But my product can.”

Bee toxin tactic

Her signature Bee Venom Mask is sold in three tiers, starting with silver (£93 for 60ml), which contains the lowest amount of Abeetoxin, then black (£174.50) and up to gold (£370).

Addressing the price tag, she added: “It isn’t the cheapest product on the market, but you do get what you pay for, and you don’t need to use a lot with it.”

Deborah explained that her mask works by tricking the body into thinking it has been stung by a bee.

She added: “So it thinks it’s got this toxin in it, and then it stops the movement in that area and tightens and firms the skin and brings in a lot of collagen and elastin to help improve the skin and save the skin’s life.”

Now there is an alternative product available for those who don’t want to try the Bee Venom Mask.

Nettle version

Deborah explained: “I do have the Vegan version, which is the nettle venom [the cream retails for £82].

“Some people don’t like the idea of bee venom. The bees aren’t harmed at all. What actually happens is they’re milked.

“There’s a flat pane of glass usually, and it has a little hum on it, and so they go towards it, and they sting it, and the stinger doesn’t come out so they don’t die, and the venom just goes down and you just collect it. 

“I do something very special with it, it’s an Abeetoxin, and what I do with it makes it incredibly strong, but also it makes it so that even people that suffer from sort of bee allergies can still use it.”

Why would anybody have all their lips filled, or have it all look like a fish?

Deborah Mitchellfounder of Heaven skincare

Deborah shared that she regularly pops to different palaces to do treatments on Queen Camilla – but wouldn’t confirm on whether she treats Princess Kate.

However, she did say Camilla gave her creams as Christmas gifts to the family last month.

She added: “A lot of them do use the products, and the Queen gave lots of Christmas presents with my products this year.”

Impressive entrepreneur

The glamorous beauty guru may be popular among royalty and A-listers, but she’s come a long way from starting her beauty business with just £10.

In a desperate bid to cure her skin ailments she enrolled on a beauty course at a local college and set up as a mobile therapist at 17.

Deborah grew up as a working-class girl on a “very, very poor” council estate in Telford, and invested in a tenner on buying a pack of nail extensions.

The beauty expert continued: “That’s weird that I do cream now, but it was nail extensions.

“She [her first client] wanted some nail extensions, and she paid me £10 pound plus £1 tip, and the nails cost £10. 

“And basically, after that she carried on using up the nails. 

“I used that money to eventually buy some products to make some ingredients to make some skincare and then do facials on different people, and it just started from there. 

“I never had a loan. I just gradually got bigger and bigger and bigger, and my first company was in The Holiday Inn at Telford. 

“My first premises was a disabled toilet. That’s what I was in, that’s what my treatment room was a disabled toilet, and I did really really well from there, and just carried on expanding.”

Deborah said she looked in the mirror one day and wanted to find an alternative to Botox after noticing wrinkles.

She said: “My sister, who lives down the road from me, is a beekeeper, so I had a lot of information about bees and honey in my head. I retain a lot of useless information and I knew what I had to do.”

After some experimentation, the resulting potion has now been patented as Abeetoxin – a complicated formulation of bee venom, honey and botulism (or botulinum), a natural form of the toxin used in Botox that can be harvested from a beehive.

Deborah, whose parents separated when she was six – her mum Sheila worked as a hairdresser and her late dad ran a chauffeur business – now has her own factory with 18 staff members.

A-list fan base

The stylish entrepreneur, who was “bullied to hell” at school, explained how she started working with the red carpet elite.

She shared: “The very first celebrities I worked with and I travelled with were Duran Duran and Andy Taylor and his wife, Tracy Taylor. 

“So I probably got introduced to a few more celebrities that way.

“And then it’s like little groups of people.

“They talk, and they say how good you are at certain things, and gradually I got a few groups of other celebrities and more and more celebrities.”

Royal seal of approval

Speaking about how she started working with Queen Camilla, she said: “They [the palace] phoned me up because I got this accolade of saying I was the best beauty therapist in Vogue, or something, so they must have seen that.

“People talk, and the celebrity celebrities talk amongst themselves as well. 

“So they phoned me up and asked me to do a treatment. And I went and did a treatment.

“And the rest sort of was history after that. That was 18 years ago, and so really nobody knew. 

“I couldn’t even tell my mum that I was doing the Queen.”

Deborah described King Charles’ wife as being “very, very lovely” and feels “completely honoured to be around her.”

And even after all these years, she still curtsies to her when they meet up.

The bee venom expert shared: “I don’t necessarily have to. But I love to say, your Majesty and curtsy, it’s so. It’s such a lovely experience.

“It is nice. I get as many curtsies in as I possibly can.”

They [the palace] phoned me up because I got this accolade of saying I was the best beauty therapist in Vogue, or something, so they must have seen that

Deborah Mitchellfounder of Heaven skincare

Deborah’s business, which she founded in 1995, has reportedly been valued at over £30million with Estee Lauder and Unilever both keen to snap it up. She has declined both offers.

They can also be found in seven star hotels including the Waldorf Astoria and the Langham Group.  She only sells to spas in the UK.

When she’s not tending to the wrinkles of the rich and famous, she can be found at her Wolverhampton home with her husband Chris Cox, who is a bacon curer, her son Chris and daughter Ella Jane, who has released a face wipe range, and also has a prominent role in Deborah’s Training Academy.