Since basically forever the celebrity beauty industry was, like the Hollywood industry it serves, nearly impossible to break in to. If you got in, you would assist for years to prove yourself and build a reputation. Along the way, a critical lesson to be learned was set etiquette. And perhaps the number-one rule when dealing with celebs was: Privacy above all and no cell phones. Read more at E Online.
Read More“Pat McGrath is perhaps the only makeup artist who lives up to the second word in the job title, the Velázquez of the beauty world. She can make a celebrity gleam for a magazine cover, then gather scraps of patent leather or lace and start cutting and gluing bits to a model’s face until she resembles a butterfly or an unspecified exotic bird.” Read more at NYMag.com.
Read More“The most important thing about Bobbi's vision of beauty is that it is not defined by white, blue-eyed, blonde models. She did not see herself reflected in them when she was young, and when it was time to develop her makeup line, she was one of the first to go beyond ‘beige,’ ‘peach,’ and ‘tan’ colors, offering alternatives for Asian and black skin tones.” Read more at Yahoo.
Read More“Although ‘Instagram face’ isn’t a coined phrase yet, makeup artists recognize the app’s aesthetic when they see it, and most of them hate it. You’ve most likely seen Instagram faces before. They may appear in your Instagram ‘popular’ feed, showing people with cartoon-smooth skin, perfectly defined flicky eyeliner, cheekbones carved like marble, and strobing so shiny it creates what one makeup artist jokingly described to me as ‘C3PO cheek.’” Read more at NYMag.com.
Read More“Charlotte is a rock star of the beauty industry: she enthuses about being ‘on the road,’ is never knowingly under-kohled (she even wears eyeliner to bed) and has a taste for hedonism, as you’d expect from a best friend of Kate Moss (the model is godmother to Charlotte’s two sons, Flynn, six, and Valentine, 22 months). For a brand that is only two and a half years old, it’s going like the clappers.” Read more at The Telegraph.
Read More“Kim Kardashian is one of the latest celebrities to collaborate with iconic makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury, on a line of 12 'Hot Lips' lipsticks. The makeup legend, who launched her beauty brand in 2013, aimed to capture Kim's personality in this beautiful bullet. Think nude in a tube with a whole lotta pout potential.” Read more at Elle.com.
Read More“Makeup artist Dick Page is one cheeky dude. And lippy. Lashy? Not as much. With an impressive roster of shows from the fall collections (including Zero Maria Cornejo, Narciso Rodriguez, Creatures of Comfort, Hermès, and Jacquemus), the Shiseido artistic director tells the story of how he got into this whacky business and why he loves—and hates—parts of it so much.” Read more at W Magazine.
Read More“To step inside Charlotte Tilbury’s new make-up store in Covent Garden is to step inside the make-up artist's mind - every mirrored, bejewelled, bedazzled inch of it. Art Deco styling, vintage trinkets and boudoir-style dressing tables are reflected in vintage mirrors on every available surface, whilst an enormous screen projects the countless magazine covers, shoots and campaigns she has worked on over her extensive career.” Read more at Vogue.co.uk.
Read More“With the launch of her first Pat McGrath-branded color item, Gold 001, the superstar makeup artist is firing an opening shot into the competitive color cosmetics space, with plans to launch a full Pat McGrath cosmetics line, most likely in late 2016. The first product, Gold 001, is being launched under the Pat McGrath Labs moniker exclusively at patmcgrath.com at noon Thursday.” Read more at WWD.
Read More“Today, Lisa Eldridge, the London-based makeup artist and YouTube sensation, is releasing her first book, Face Paint: The Story of Makeup (Abrams Image), a meditation on the history of cosmetics and the women who wore it best. Beginning with caches of red ochre found in South African caves, which were used as prehistoric makeup, Face Paint takes us through the ancient origins of modern trends—a bold red lip, a slick of black liner—and connects them back to beauty’s present landscape.” Read more at Vogue.com.
Read More“What do you get when makeup artist François Nars teams up with photographer Steven Klein? The most provocative, seductive, menacingly beautiful makeup collection we've ever seen. Here, the exclusive first look before it hits shelves October 15.” Read more at Allure.com.
Read More“It could be considered the most anticipated makeup launch of the past two decades: For years, beauty junkies and fashion fans alike have watched as makeup artist Pat McGrath has created amazing products for brands like Dior (she’s the brain behind the original DiorShow mascara), CoverGirl, Max Factor, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana, waiting patiently for the day the makeup genius would come out with a line of her own. Well, it’s not a full line, but it’s a start.” Read more at Allure.
Read More“Last night, Amy Schumer took home her first Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for Inside Amy Schumer. In one of the season’s most viral sketches, ‘Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup,’ Schumer pokes fun at the glorification of natural, no-makeup beauty, a look that comes with its own set of impossible to meet beauty standards: ‘I didn’t know that your lashes were so stubby and pale, just a little mascara and you’ll look female.’ Schumer’s acceptance speech was pretty perfect: She thanked her team of writers, her sister, and the woman who gave her ‘sort of a smoky eye.’” Read more at Elle.
Read More“Celebrity makeup artist Hung Vanngo’s work speaks for itself. Although he’s worked on some of the most famous faces in the past decade, including Taraji P. Henson for her Allure cover, Gisele Bündchen, Cindy Crawford in Vogue’s September issue, and practically every single Victoria’s Secret Angel, the makeup artist isn’t a household name yet — and he prefers to stay that way, doing relatively few interviews.” Read more at NYMag.com.
Read More“Dick Page has painted the faces of every supermodel to storm through the ’90s, every Victoria’s Secret Angel worth her wings, and an exclusive coterie of A-List actresses, like Julianne Moore and Catherine Zeta-Jones. With his towering frame and tawny beard, Page cuts a distinctive, lumberjackian figure, and is a fixture backstage at fashion week, where models hope to have the good fortune to land in his chair. But it was not always so. ‘When I first moved to London, for the longest time I wasn’t making any money,’ says the British-born artist of his early days in the industry.” Read more at Violet Grey.
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