Profile
The face is
the only canvas
I have loved make-up since I was a kid — the one who spent hours at the Sephora counter, touching every product, testing every texture, playing until someone turned the lights off. It never wore off.
Years later I met the woman who changed my life. Sandy Linter — the legendary make-up artist — took me under her wing and taught me the craft properly. Assisting Fulvia Farolfi and Aaron de Mey, I learned something different from each of them, on editorial shoots and at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week — where I learned make-up that survives the worst conditions there are: direct flash, high-definition video, a fourteen-hour call, and a photographer three feet from the face.
Today I am a make-up artist based in Los Angeles, working across Orange County, Santa Barbara and beyond — red carpets and campaigns during the week, weddings on the weekend. Whether it is a bride on her wedding morning or an actor before a premiere, the technique does not change. Only the room does.
Training · New York
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Sandy Linter
The godmother of American glamour — Studio 54, Gia Carangi, the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and later Lancôme's authority on beauty at every age. She taught me the foundations of glamour, and how to make mature skin look its most luminous.
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Fulvia Farolfi
Chanel's make-up maestro, shot by Demarchelier and Lindbergh. Assisting her carried me from Vogue shoots to Victoria's Secret campaigns — skin first, and the harder half of the craft: knowing what to leave off.
III
Aaron de Mey
Lancôme's former artistic director of make-up and a fixture of the Prada, Givenchy and Céline runways. From him I learned skin — how to build a face that still reads as skin, under any camera and at the speed of a show.
Selected clients
Film, television & music
- Amazon MGM Studios
- Amblin Entertainment
- Sony Music
Beauty, retail & lifestyle
- Maybelline
- Procter & Gamble
- Anisa Beauty
- Equinox · Creed Boutique