By Marc Jackson
Published: 11:21 EST, 30 July 2014 | Updated: 14:00 EST, 30 July 2014
Fresh from wrapping up a series of legal woes which have somewhat derailed her career, Tulisa Contostavlos is preparing to return to the limelight.
Sharing a picture of her having her make-up applied on Instagram, alongside the caption 'Back to work', the singer has made it clear she is desperate to put the highs and lows of the last month behind her.
Wearing a smart grey and black collared dress, the former N-Dubz star looked ready to try and reclaim her title as 'The Female Boss' of British pop.
Back to business: Tulisa let her 290,000 followers on Instagram know she's ready to return to work after two court cases left her career in tatters
The shot is only the second image she has uploaded to the picture-sharing website in July, the month in which she has twice been to court on separate charges.
The 26-year-old had been accused of brokering an £800 deal through her friend Mike GLC to supply Class A drugs to undercover The Sun journalist Mahzer Mahmood.
On July 21, the trial collapsed after the case was dismissed by Judge Alistair McCreath.
He told Southwark Crown Court that he believed Mahmood had lied during a pre-trial hearing.
Statement: The singer addresses the media outside Southwark Crown Court in central London on July 21 after the collapse of her drugs trial
Her relief was short lived when she was found guilty of assaulting celebrity blogger and The Only Way Is Essex star Savvas Morgan at V Festival in Chelmsford, Essex in August 2013 during a second court case at the end of last week.
Tulisa was ordered by the court to pay a total of £3,020, while her assistant, Gareth Varey, 28, was cleared of using threatening behaviour.
Although it is not yet known how Tulisa is planning to make her comeback, she revealed her 'biggest fear' was losing her livelihood in a frenzy of post-court case interviews earlier this week.
Speaking to Charlotte Hawkins on Good Morning Britain, she said: 'The biggest fear for me was losing my livelihood; something I have worked for from the age of 11 years old. I've not known anything else, it's all I have had. It's my life.
PR blitz: The 26-year-old set the record straight during a candid interview with Good Morning Britain presenter Charlotte Hawkins, but refused to talk about her assault conviction
Shocking: The singer broke down and admitted her string of legal woes had left her at the brink of suicide during BBC documentary Tulisa: The Price of Fame
'I just woke up one day and it was taken out of my hands - I had no control - I couldn't work, I couldn't speak to clear my name because of legal reasons.
'I just had to sit in silence just being bashed left, right and centre... and being portrayed as a monster.'
She also spoke about her candid BBC documentary Tulisa: The Price of Fame, in which she made the shocking confession that she had considered suicide after discovering she was to be charged with conspiring to supply drugs.
Breaking down in a private video diary on the programme, which aired on Monday and covered the last 13 months of the star's life, she admitted: 'So like an idiot I don't know what I was thinking, I picked up painkillers and necked them with a bottle of vodka, I don't even know what I was planning to do.'
Tulisa's last major job was on The X Factor, which she left in early 2013 amid plummeting ratings after two series.
Meanwhile, her former boyfriend and fellow N-Dubz member Fazer recently confirmed that the act plans to return to the studio next year after they went on hiatus in 2011 to focus on solo projects.
Old school: Tulisa with her N-Dubz bandmates Dappy and Fazer, who claims the trio are set to reunite in the second half of 2015
Heyday: Tulisa became a household name thanks to her two-year stint as a judge on The X Factor alongside Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland and Louis Walsh. She stepped down from the show in 2013 amid a ratings drop
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