Makeup Artist Education & Career Strategy
How I Created the Look
Sharing my thoughts on the disaster that was the Youthforia foundation launch, the overall state of beauty culture and diversity in beauty, and makeup for Black people in general… I am a 54-year-old Black woman who has worked as a makeup artist in some capacity since the late 1990s. I have talked about the need […]
The Strobing makeup trend… spoiler alert – it’s just highlighting… (contains affiliate links) So strobing. Yet another “makeup trend” for folks to follow. And of course, as with any makeup trend, there are certain products that are “must haves” in order to achieve the look and then once you get one set of “must have” […]
2024 Update – This article was written in 2014 when AJ was making his rise as an entrepreneur in addition to his successful career as a celebrity makeup artist. Alas, AJ passed away shockingly and tragically in 2022, and while they tried their best it does not look like the AJ Crimson Beauty line survived […]
I am a Beauty makeup artist. Quite frankly – while I very much respect the craft – I detest FX/horror/monster makeup. I just do not like looking at “gross” no matter how well it is done. In fact the better it’s done, the harder it is to look at. All that said, I love a […]
Face powder and the Makeup Malfunction. Such a simple product, yet such controversy. Use of face powder goes back to the time of Cleopatra, so it is hardly something “new” in cosmetics. In fact in my previous article on face powder, I described it as a wonder product and one of the most important products […]
