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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… EDIT 8/13/2025 – Well, well, well…On August 1, Youthforia announced that it would be closing down… This is an unfortunate development, but not at all a […]
Tips to gain more collaborators, clients, and opportunities in your freelance makeup artistry career… The things that got you to where you are now are not necessarily the things that will get you to the next level. – Jasmine Star (paraphrased) Writing a cold email…the thought sends shivers down many a makeup artists spine. And […]
The Basics returns! We’re starting with Part 1 of Many of my Pro Makeup Kit Tour – you guessed it – Foundations contains affiliate links I was recently asked to do a Kit Tour… And in trying to do so I realized a video tour of my kit would be about 5 days long, and […]
Top Five Tips (plus one bonus) To Build a Professional Makeup Artists’ Portfolio that gets you booked may contain affiliate links “How do I get X types of jobs”? A simple question with a lot of different possible answers. But item #1, if you want to work in media, particularly in Print, professional makeup artists […]
Elizabeth Fox is one of my fave people I’ve met in this biz, full stop. She and I met when we were both teaching at a makeup school in San Francisco. While the types of makeup and jobs we do differ (she loves her some film set life and some FX/gore, and if you know […]
