YouTube makeup and beauty Gurus have exploded over the past few years. They cover a spectrum of styles from slickly produced tutorials and product reviews to down and dirty DIY posts from bedrooms with bad lighting and questionable camera work. After you wade through the gazillion viewing choices, there’s a few names that keep popping [...]
Ben Nye Makeup‘s new MediaPRO Collection continues to wow us! First the unexpectedly consummate Concealer & Corrector Palette …now a totally on-point Creme Contour Palette. It’s almost as if they reached into our collective minds and gathered the colors we automatically reach for to highlight, contour and blush – then put them together in one convenient palette. BTW – No [...]
Makeup artistry, like all jobs, has it’s share of professional rivalry. I am not opposed to healthy competition — may the best person win. I’m totally supportive of peers who call out procrastination and complacency who push and motivate you to higher achievements. I have a BIG problem when healthy competition turns toxic and escalates to deceit, [...]
Not sure how to find the perfect foundation shade? I had a chat about it with my favorite dermatologist, Leslie Baumann MD, author of the NY Times bestseller “Skin Type Solutions“. We went over the simple steps to help everyone find their perfect foundation shade. Check out the conversation and pick up some extra “pro” [...]
Illamasqua launches it’s Fall 2011 Collection - THE THEATRE OF THE NAMELESS. Leave it to Illamasqua to base a color collection on the underground clubs of Berlin circa 1920 – a nocturnal den of underworld subcultures and exotic dancers rubbing shoulders with actors and anarchists. This indulgent collection envelops the senses. Darkly sophisticated tones are accompanied [...]
I’m extremely proud to announce my participation with the “IT GETS BETTER” PROJECT at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in NYC. The IT GETS BETTER Project has saved the lives of countless LGBT youths. Please come see us at the lounge, we’ll glam you up and then you can record a PSA to help spread the [...]
Want help finding the perfect foundation? Click on the image below to read the second installment of my Yahoo Health Makeup Series for Skin Guru Dr. Leslie Baumann.
Your teen storms into her bedroom looking like a Taylor Momsen doppelgänger and slams the door. You’re fuming and frustrated with this overdone makeup on an underage girl…how much is too much? What happened to the nice little girl that used to live in your daughter’s body? You and she used to talk about everything, [...]
I’m partnering with the amazing folks at MAKEUP ARTIST MAGAZINE ! I’m writing a bi-weekly “Expert Advise” blog for Whether I’m in Barcelona or Burbank, Dublin or Des Moines. Whether I’m in the make-up trailer, speaking at a seminar or just hanging out. Makeup Q&A sessions inevitably becomes a part of my day. Everyone wants [...]
