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Happy New Year – Resolutions Time pt 1

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Happy New Year!

I trust that you all had fabulous Holidays. Like everyone, I always enter a bit of a reflective mood at the start of the New Year. Generally speaking media work is a bit slower so I have a bit of time to stop and think about what I’ve accomplished and where I want to go next. Generally speaking I split my Career resolutions up from my Personal resolutions. Since we’re all here to talk about beauty and not about how I need to wake up earlier in the morning, here are my Career Resolutions for 2010; Continue reading →

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So You Wanna Be A Pro Makeup Artist? Preview

When Makeup to Go was conceived, it tried to be a clearing house for all the little makeup services that fell outside of what I book through my agent. Through it’s evolution, however, two distinct services emerged; my services for private individuals, and my Lessons for Aspiring Artists™. The Lessons for Aspiring Artists™ was started out of the belief that it’s better to learn how to be a working makeup artist from a working makeup artist. Firstly, trends change and an artist who was working 20 years ago may not be current with what’s happening today. Secondly, how to get work has significantly changed in even the last five years, much less the last 20. Then lastly, at the time Makeup to Go, Makeup Mentors and other such services were started, time were a lot of fly-by-night schools with unqualified (or totally unknown) instructors. Well, it must be daybreak because a lot of these schools have flow off never to be seen or heard from again. All too typical. All of the legit, stable schools are staffed with working artists as teachers.

But what about schools? Well, I’m not at all anti-school, I went to one for film makeup. Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Trade Shows

The Powder Group’s Makeup Show (TMUS) vs. Makeup Magazine’s International Makeup Artist Trade Show (IMATS) 2009

This post is intended for all the aspiring pro makeup artists in the house. Every industry has it’s trade shows and the beauty biz is no exception. Being a professional in the industry, I’ve always felt a need to attend them as often as schedule permits, if only to shop and walk around and see what’s new in makeup-landia. IBS – the International Beauty Show – services the salon professional. Being a media artist (Print, TV, Film) I never really attend IBS. However there are two shows vying for attention in my spectrum of the business; The Makeup Show (TMUS) and the International Makeup Artists Trade Show (IMATS) Continue reading →

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We’re Go!

After a few months, we’re up and running on our new web home. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s been worth the wait. Many thanks again to the ladies of Girly Blog Designz for their fab work on creating this site for me.

Makeup to Go has undergone a number of significant changes since it’s inception and I’m excited to see where we go from here. Changing over to a Blog format website will – hopefully – allow me to keep the content fresh, lively and topical. So set a spell, won’t you? Thanks again for visiting! :)

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