Evelyn Grace Rochfort Gardiner (14 November 1913 – 1 June 1992) was an English beautician and remedial make-up artist who was a pioneer in the use of make-up on the blind and disfigured. She began working for Max Factor in 1936 when it opened a salon in London and was its first British make-up artist. Gardiner learnt how to disguise facial disfigurements and scarring with make-up from Max Factor Sr. and worked with patients sent to her by the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies for remedial camouflage make-up. She helped women who were blinded during the Second World War and became depressed because they could not see and thus not able to apply their make-up in their rehabilitation. Gardiner also developed a close association with the plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe and members of his "Guinea Pig Club" to disguise Royal Air Force members who had suffered the most severe scarring, and taught a class of blind teenage girls skin care and make-up at Dorton House in Sevenoaks and at Linden Lodge School for the Blind in Wimbledon. Early life On 14 November 1913, Gardiner was born on 14 November 1913 at Garfield in Clevedon, Somerset. She was the daughter of Edward Cecil Gardiner and his wife, Dorothy Frances Elizabeth (). Gardiner's great-grandfather discovered the salt mines in Carrickfergus and worked there for a long period of time. She planned to be an artist specalising in design and fashion, and had intended to study art at the Slade School of Fine Art before the loss of her father's income during the Great Depression in the 1930s meant he was unable to afford the necessary fees and she became a hairdresser, qualifying at one of the best private beauty and hair salons in London that was patronised by those from royalty, show business and high society. Career In 1936, upon hearing that the Hollywood make-up artist Max Factor Sr. was about to open a salon on London's Old Bond Street, Gardiner successfully applied for a make-up job and received training. She was Max Factor's first make-up artist from the United Kingdom. The following year, she met Factor for the only time and passed on his knowledge of how to disguise facial disfigurements and scarring with make-up after his personal experience with soldiers heavily afflicted by poison gas burns during the First World War. Gardiner's clintele included patients sent to her by the plastic