Today, Jerri Jones prepared to attend her sixth Brownlow awards.
Wife of Melbourne’s Nathan Jones, as we speak at 1.30pm, she’s sat in her hotel room eating lunch trying to enjoy a few quiet moments before the chaos of the afternoon gets underway.
It’s a scene she knows well, the calm before the sparkling red carpet storm. And like many women and stylists who’ve attended the Brownlow Awards many years in a row, there’s a side to the glamour that isn’t so sparkling.
Her makeup is already done, partly because as a mum of two, Bobbi, three and Remy, almost one, and owner of her own clothing label, Jerri Jones, she was “quite disorganised getting myself ready” so only contacted her makeup artist two weeks ago.