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SHE’S won over thousands of fans in her singing career, and bagged an MBE for her contribution to music, but Beverley Knight is hoping to hit the right notes in the beauty world.

The soul singer, who comes to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in November, has launched her own range of make-up, K by Beverley Knight, for darker skin tones.

With so few brands on the cosmetics market catering specifically for black and Asian skin, Beverley hopes her range will create more choice for those who end up defeated at the beauty counters searching for the right shade.

“When you’re darker-skinned, it’s a nightmare trying to find make-up that works,” she explains.

“Like the vast majority of black and dark-skinned women, I found there wasn’t anything that provided the full spectrum of colours I needed. Finding products was even worse before MAC and Bobbi Brown came along – I certainly have some make-up horror stories to tell!”

The K by Beverley Knight range will be available nationwide from October 6, and features 15 products including oil-free foundations and powders for darker skin tones, as well as eye-shadows and lipsticks in colours Beverley believes will flatter everyone.

“My personal favourites are the Ruby and Blackberry Lip Gloss Stylos because I’m a lip gloss fiend!” she says. “But I’m most proud of the bases because it took an eternity to get them right and that was the thing I was determined the whole range should hang on.”

She found inspiration in fellow singer, Liverpool’s own Nicola Roberts, from Girls Aloud, who encountered problems at the opposite end of the make-up spectrum finding colours to suit her pale complexion.

“Nicola has embraced her own look with her Dainty Doll range and become like an ambassador for a whole army of girls who have similar hair and skin tone,” Beverley says.

“She was definitely someone I looked at closely to see how to do it right, as opposed to just putting a celebrity make-up range out there and saying ’buy that’.”