1) What makes you love the Beauty Industry?
The fact that I get to wake up every morning and play with makeup all day long, that’s what makes me love the beauty industry. It’s incredible to do what I love to do for a living!
2) What are your top three products you can’t live without?
1. Embryolisse 24 Hour Cream
2. Urban Decay Eye Shadow Potion
3. Ardell False Lashes
3) Which regular beauty tips do you offer your clients?
Number one beauty tip is to take proper care of your skin. Skin is the basis to any makeup application. If the skin is dry, too oily, or broken out, the rest of the makeup application falls apart and can look messy. The key is to take care of your skin and use light to minimal foundation to even tone. The rest then falls into place!
4) What are the most common beauty mistakes that you think people make?
Wearing a foundation that is too dark for their skin. You must match foundation and then, for added color, shade your face around contours with a bronzer.
5) What trends do you think are here to stay?
The smokey eye is a trend that I believe is beyond trend, it is here to stay and we love it!
6) What is your main go-to beauty product? Why?
I have fallen in love with L’Oreal’s BB Cream. It is a foundation type product that softly evens skin tone. It works great alone or under a fuller coverage foundation. I use it religiously on clients and I’ve received a great response to the way it makes their skin look and feel.
7) Do you have any special signature tips or beauty secrets that set you apart?
I always add a few individual false lashes to the outer corner of eyes. Typically I will use the short black from Ardell. It opens up the eyes without looking too dramatic.
8) When you are out on the town, what beauty products are staples in your purse?
Translucent powder from Natural Born Cosmetics and a lip gloss, I have been using glosses from a newer line, Nia B. Cosmetics.
9) Who is your dream client that you would love to work with?
I always wanted to work with Jenna Elfman. From her Dharma and Greg years, I’ve always loved her look and I got the opportunity to work with her just a few months ago, was amazing! Aside from Ms. Elfman, I would love to have the opportunity to work with Kate Moss.
10) Describe the most daring look you have created on a client or yourself.
Top and bottom lashes on a bride with green and purple shadows was the most daring I believe, especially for the event, her own wedding!
11) What was your most disastrous makeup experience? And how did you fix it? It’s hard to remember back then because I try to block it out but, when I first started, I didn’t realize the importance of skin and matching foundation. I would go very heavy on the foundation. I had one client who had a very bad spell of acne, I had to keep re-doing her foundation, eventually we got it to where it needed to be.
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