Ata-Owaji Victor

Ata-Owaji Victor is a lifestyle and beauty writer and editor. With over six years experience across women's lifestyle magazines and national newspapers, she covers everything from beauty tech and innovation to the newest books you need to your rotation, along with profiling the buzziest actors and musicians. 

After graduating with a BA in English from Queen Mary, University London, the born and bred Londoner, started her career as an editorial styling assistant. After gaining work experience in styling, she interned at fashion, beauty and features desks across the industry - from Grazia to The Sunday Time Style - before working with the British Vogue Beauty team. Since then she has gone on to work for ELLE UK covering everything from digital news to coordinating the editorial offering for the brand's membership platform, ELLE Collective.  During her extensive freelance career she has written for titles like Refinery29, Stylist, Black Ballad, Elle UK, Glamour, Who What Wear and British Vogue and more. Alongside writing she consults for small and large scale beauty brands, helping them to create inclusive - of age, race and gender- launches that resonate with modern beauty audiences.  

As someone with combination skin, she's always on the lookout for the latest dewy skin heroes and loves trying the newest (and strangest) beauty products on the market. She is interested in travel, music and is currently working on re-learning the classical flute after a hiatus. During her downtime she loves travelling, trying new restaurants and bars with friends and family. Her favourite part of her job is the ability to connect with people via beauty and conversation and she wants people to always remember that makeup can and should be fun!