Amanda Lyons worked at the Golden Trats beauty salon for seven years.
Steven Lyons’ gangster moll Amanda Lyons has been pictured with rich celebrity clients who dubbed her the ‘Tartan Tart’.
Lyons was make-up artist to TOWIE mega stars James ‘Arg’ Argent and Chloe Simms and can be seen in throwback snaps with the reality TV pair in Marbella in 2012 where she worked as part of the famous Golden Tarts beauty salon.
The 38-year-old worked for Golden Tarts at branches in La Cala de Mijas and Puerto Banus in the Spanish City from 2010 to 2017.
Lyons also provided glam looks to TOWIE’s Gemma Collins and Lydia Bright.
An online beauty account Lyons created in June 2014 reveals her packed client list.
Strictly Come Dancing and Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison can be seen thanking her for make up looks alongside other TOWIE legends Georgia Kousoulou and Jessica Wright.
Lyons later moved to Dubai in 2018 to focus on family life with husband Steven Lyons, 45, after giving birth to her first son in 2016.
The following year, Golden Tarts posted online about Lyons glamming up celebrities in the United Arab Emirates for an OK magazine photo shoot.
Lyons spent a lot of her childhood in Spain after her heroin dealer dad Richard Hayes settled there and became a central figure among Scottish crooks living in the Costa Del Sol.
Hayes operated out of the popular holiday resort of Fuengirola and was dubbed the ‘Godfather’ of Scots criminals in the area by Spanish cops.
But his criminal enterprise came crashing down when he was nabbed by armed police over a £3.6million cannabis bust in 2007.
Steven Lyons moved to Spain after he was shot in the leg in 2006 and his 21-year-old cousin Michael was killed in a shooting at a garage owned by his family in Glasgow.
He met Amanda shortly afterwards and the pair began dating, but Amanda wasn’t content to just be a gangster’s moll.
A source told the Record Amanda’s glam pals in Spain didn’t think she had anything to do with her husband’s criminal dealings and were stunned at her recent arrest.
She said: “Amanda and Steven come from similar backgrounds and fell quickly in love.
“Amanda wanted her own career and she was working more or less full-time hours at Golden Tarts to make her own cash but when she fell pregnant things changed.
“Her priorities shifted and mixing with celebrities started to mean less to her and her and Steven both wanted more kids.
“They decided to move to Dubai to settle down and Steven left the day-to-day running of his criminal enterprise to his pal Ross Monaghan so he could just oversee things from the desert.
“Everyone thought Amanda was just busy being a mum after that, but she started to get involved in helping Steven in organised crime and a lot of people have been left stunned by that.”
Amanda Lyons has been described as an “active member” of the clan’s criminal operation after she was cuffed at Dubai Airport last month just days after Steven was detained by cops in Bali.
She is now facing years behind bars.
The pair were arrested as part of a two-year joint investigation into the Lyons mob, with ten more of their crew being nicked in Scotland and five in Spain.
Steven Lyons was deported from Indonesia and put on a plane to Amsterdam last week and is being held in the Netherlands on a European Arrest Warrant.
He is now facing extradition to Spain where he is wanted on money laundering charges.
Spanish police branded the Lyons gang “a highly sophisticated criminal organisation characterised by violence” as they made their first official comments since the arrests last week.
Speaking of Amanda Lyons, a spokesperson said: “The partner of the gang leader was arrested at Dubai’s international airport. She is considered to be an active member of the criminal organisation.
“The so-called Lyons Clan is one of the most violent criminal organisations that have originated in Scotland in the last few decades.
“In Spain 18 raids and searches took place last week as part of the police operation, mainly on the Costa del as well as Barcelona.
“Electronic devices, large amounts of cash, company documents, high-end watches and cryptocurrency wallets were seized.
“The investigation was developed over more than three years by the Civil Guard’s Central Operative unit UCO and has been carried out in close co-operation with Police Scotland and coordinated by EUROJUST.”
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