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  • #BizTalk – Makeup Trends and the Pro Artist

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    Makeup trends are great and all, but remember as professionals our job is to define and set the trends, not just blindly follow them…     On Sonia Roselli’s fantastic blogazine Glossible, I read an article she wrote entitled “The One Makeup Trend That Needs to Die”. It was all about the current Highlighting/Contouring obsession […]

  • #MaquillajeParaGo – 2014 PHAMExpo Delia’s Take

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    Makeup to Go’s Blogstress in Espanol – Delia – is back! Del was able to join me at the 2014 PHAMExpo and here are her impressions of the show… (as per usual, English to follow…NOTE: this article was written a while ago so some links may no longer work.) Había muchas cosas interesantes en PHAMExpo […]

  • #BizTalk – Let’s Talk Undercutting

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    Undercutting is dirty business that potentially hurts you more than the person you undercut… A long time ago I was on a makeup chat with my makeup buddy, Ohio based artist Kendall Stolz. She said something that has stuck with me literally to this day. We were talking about various marketing techniques and she was […]

  • #HaveYouSeenThis – Making Angelina Maleficent

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    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 […]