Celebrity Makeup Artist: James Vincent

If you are in Dallas this weekend June 13-14 you may want to check out The Makeup Show Dallas. The Makeup Show is a 2-Day beauty event dedicated to artistry, education, community, networking and inspiration. There you are able to:

• Fill your kit with pro-driven essentials
• Refine your skill-set in our exclusive hands-on workshops and seminars
• Work with FX Fantasy and Beauty
• Explore Business strategies and opportunities during forums & keynotes
• Unite with fellow industry insiders
• Network with brands execs and CEOS

Speaking of uniting with industry insiders, I have a great surprise for you all I have brought in Celebrity Makeup Artist James Vincent who is also the Director of Education and Artistry of The Makeup Show Dallas. James has worked with makeup lines and makeup artists at all levels of the industry, James has worked under every genre of makeup artistry such as Film and theater, television, celebrity work, editorial and runway work, training and product development for such companies like MAC, Stila, Armani, YSL, and Make Up For Ever. 

We all understand the struggle with dealing with Texas hot & humid weather. As a makeup artist and beauty junkie I always look for that next best thing that will give me coverage but that's not heavy  on the face. James has agreed to share some of his top favs products that will pass Texas Summer Heat & humidty.

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It's summer time and as you know James not only is it hot in Texas but in certain parts of Texas that's closer to the water it's also humid. And let's not forget it's also tropical season or as we may say hurricane season so we also get a lot of rain here. What are your top favorite products that you absolutely love and you reach for all the time to create a full face application that we will see at The Makeup Show Dallas and that is water prood, HUMIDITY-Proof and Summer time approved?

Waterproof and long-lasting are key terms to look for when building the ideal summer makeup kit. Start with waterproof foundation like MAKE UP FOR EVER Face and Body Liquid Makeup for sheer coverage It will even out the skin tone and allow for sweat-proof beauty.

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Next, look to powders that help keep everything in place.  INGLOT 3S Mattifying Pressed Powder or NARS Invisible Powder are ideal for adding long-wear durability to the most natural or dramatic makeup application.  

Eyebrows are also essential for any Texas makeup lover.  Let Anastasia's Dipbrow or Senna Cosmetics Brow Fix bring you the perfect eyebrow application every time - also waterproof and worry free.

Cream eyeshadows come in a variety of waterproof formulation and a variety of colors.  Some of my favorites are MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Matic Eye Shadow, NARS Cream Eyeshadow, and Smashbox Limitless 15 Hour Wear Cream Shadow.

Focusing on lips is a great way to get impact in a makeup application without the worry of summertime heat.  Try a sheer stain like Pinnacle Cosmetics or a bold long wear matte like Temptu Lipsticks for a perfect lip that stays put. Finish it all off with a setting spray like Skindinavia or MAKE UP FOR EVER Mist & Fix to keep your makeup in place in the most intense heat and humidity.

Don't forget the body for a beautiful summer look--Gleam by Melanie Mills in Rose Gold or Yellow Gold is beautiful on the shoulders, décolletage and legs for the perfect summer glow.

I feel you can never have too many makeup brushes and I'm loving the beauty blenders personally for myself. What are some of your favorite makeup tools you use for applying cosmetics and that we should add to our makeup kits?

London Brush Company has a beautiful array of angled tools and uniquely shaped brushes that are an amazing addition to any artist kit. I Make You Beautiful The Magic Touch takes the excess water out of foundation making it look flawless and long-wear every time. 

Kevyn Aucoin The Eyelash Curler created by the master and makeup artist behind the iconic Shu curler--this universal shape allows you to take lashes to a new level. 

Cinema Secrets metal palette and spatula--the original palette created by Cinema Secrets' maurice stein is still my favorite in the industry for practicing good hygine. And Cinema Secrets grooming scissors--this mini tweezer scissor combo allows for trimming brows or shaping faux lashes with precision and ease.    

Anastasia or Senna Cosmetics tweezers are two of my favorite for grooming beautiful eyebrows.

Blush, Bronzer, or Both?

Both. Bronzer should be combined with blush for the most natural sun kissed look. Try creating a blush look by applying a pink or red shad of blush onto the apple of the cheek a peach or orange shade of blush onto the highest point of the cheek bone and complete it by adding bronzer only where sun hits the face such as forehead, cheekbones, chin, and décolletage. This color combo will give the most gorgeous and natural blush look.

Lipstick, Liptar or lip stain?

I love all three.  For achieving different looks, lip tar has such a pure pack of pigment. It allows me to use it for a traditional lip application as a lip stain and does double duty as blush.  

There are two things that Texas love and you already know James...Sculpted Brows and Highlighting and contouring. What are some of your fave summer proof brow products and highlighting & contour palettes?

Kevyn Aucoin The Brow Pencil is perfect for drawing in fine hairs that look natural. Komiko launches with us for the first time here at The Makeup Show this year and their eyebrow pencils are the perfect size and shape for designing an elegant and natural looking eyebrow. Senna Cosmetics The Brow Fix is a beautiful natural gel developed by Eugenia Weston the original brow guru, who developed such industry staples as the brow pencil.  

I'm not a fan of contour palettes. Any product can be used to contour. My must have for contouring is Viseart Palette #1, which is perfect for eyebrow shadow for contour. If I had to choose a contour palette I would say Anastasia, Smashbox, NARS or Kevyn Aucoin all make contour shades that I would keep in my kit.

Can all these products be found at The Makeup Show Dallas this weekend?

Yep!

Be sure to check out all of these products listed by James Vincent at The Makeup Show Dallas this weekend. 

The Makeup Show Dallas: Anastasia Beverly Hills - Cory Bishop

The Makeup Show Dallas is approaching so fast I can't even get myself together. I'm excited 

and anxious.

Today's post is featuring Senior Manager of Artistry and Education for Anastasia Beverly Hills as well as their National Artist +Cory Bishop.

I had the honor of meeting Cory last year at the show. At the time he was representing The Gorgeous Cosmetics at the +Frends Beauty  booth. Apparently a lot has happened in a years time for him and I'm so proud of him and his success! This year he is coming back and I kind of feel special because he told me that after doing the shows for 8 years he took a year off  so Dallas is his first show back!  He is coming back under +Anastasia Beverly Hills . He graciously provided information for my blog to share with you all! Thank you so much Cory! He has had the ultimate pleasure of learning directly from the founder Anastasia the expert in EVERYTHING pertaining to brows. So I asked him a couple of questions and he answered:

1. What will Anastasia be bringing to the show this year & Are there any new products releasing at the show?

This year we will be bringing our award winning brow products as well as our best selling cream and powder contour kits. Available to the attendees at our PRO discount. This will be the first year we will be offering our brand new color line. With over 80 custom eyeshadows, our amazing liquid lips (that will sell out because we can't make them faster than people buy them), our full coverage lip glosses, our 20 shade full coverage concealer (my personal favorite), and our waterproof creme colors in our original shades as well as our neon shades for summer. Phew! That's a lot! 

2. Are you doing any educational classes?

I'm opening the show at 9:45 am - 10:30 am with my class on brows and contour. Anastasia has taught me that beauty is all about balance and proportion and the best way to manipulate that is with brows and contouring. I'm going to bring some of anastasia's best tips as well as my 15 years of experience from my celebrity clients to really show why Anastasia Beverly Hills products are #1. Just Google 'best eyebrow makeup' or 'best contour palette' Anastasia will come up first every time because of our loyal clients and pro artist following.

Anastasia & Cory Bishop

Cory Bishop will be at the Anastasia Beverly Hills Booth F4

Remember to meet Cory Bishop in Seminar B at 9:45 - 10:30 Saturday, June 13, 2014 where he will be talking about ARCHitecture: Creating Symmetry and Balance with Brow and Contouring. The seminar classes are complimentary with the purchase of the ticket. Seats can fill up fast so make sure you are there early.

For more information on the seminar schedules for both days be sure to check out http://www.themakeupshow.com/dallas/education/seminars/

Also check out www.anastasiabeverlyhills.com

Cory Bishop is on Instagram FOLLOW HIM @thecorybishop

Celebrity Makeup Artist - ADRIAN VILLA

Makeup Artist, Beauty Editor, Platform Educator, and Product Developer are some of the things Adrian Villa is truly passionate about. I've only known Adrian for a short amount of time and feel like I've known him for so long probably because we have some things in common and that is we have a passion for sharing and educating. I personally gave him another skill and talent and that is a life coach. He is so inspiring and have battled and overcome so many obstacles in his life and has inspired MANY in his course of life. Now he is one of the most sought after talents in the industry. His work has been seen in some of the most popular publications Allure Magazine, American Salon, Cosmo, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Modern Salon, OK Magazine, Seventeen, Vanity Fair, Vogue and on countless red carpets from the Emmy's to the Oscars, Grammys. He has traveled the globe and has spoken at so many trade show events across the US! AMAZING RIGHT?! I hope his story inspires you all as it has inspired me! I'm grateful to know him as a friend now and will happily share a piece of him with you all. So without further ado I present to you Adrian Villa! 

FAITH: Hello Adrian first off thank you for this opportunity to interview you. It is definitely a pleasure especially being that this is something new that I am doing on my blog. So please tell me and the audience how did you know that being a makeup artist was what you wanted to do?
ADRIAN: I actually didn't know that there was a job or career as a makeup artist. Ever since I was a little boy I found myself painting, drawing and sculpting, So some sort of art form was always in my life. I loved taking classes since I was in elementary, Jr high, high school, and then college and afterwards I still continued education and it wasn't until I came across working as a receptionist at Tony & Guy. I was really a bad receptionist at Tony & Guy. I was always messing up everyone books til they were frustrated and suggested that either I become a makeup artist or I wouldn't have a job. And I said to myself how hard can putting on blush be, you know? So I became a makeup artist and I really fell in love with the aspect of making someone look beautiful but most importantly I enjoyed the psychology behind makeup, how it makes people feel emotionally, how I could really connect with people through makeup. This industry has grown so beautifully and so fast that people forget the true meaning of being a makeup artist.  I'm  not just a makeup artist but I am a service provider so it's my job to provide a quality of service to all my clients, doesn't matter who they are whether it's a celebrity, bride, prom client, whatever the job may be I treat everyone equally. And I'm very happy that from a very humble beginning it has brought me to different avenues of the makeup artistry industry doing fashion week in New York, Fashion Week in Australia, Beauty Marketing campaigns, Red Carpet, teaching. I had no idea that there was a career in that and people forget that makeup companies need makeup artists and their expertise and knowledge to help them with product development so that's something that I started about 2 years ago working with makeup brands to help develop cosmetics.

FAITH: And you know Adrian I like to tell everyone that we all have a purpose in something and we are here to serve a purpose serve others. Makeup Artistry is a SERVice.
ADRIAN: And that's why I always say that I am a makeup artist but what I really do is I'm a service provider. And I think that there is so much EGO behind the word makeup artist that people forget ultimately how we get paid is by providing a service to a person.
FAITH: I love that you treat everyone equally and that's what makes you stand out. That's a great characteristic to have.
ADRIAN: You know I always say that you get more with honey then you do with other things. LOL I won't say what other things are because especially living in Los Angeles you again you are service provider/ Makeup Artist so I'm not the talent, I'm not the celebrity, I'm not the person that's getting paid to represent something. So I think people need to eliminate the EGO part of makeup artistry and be nice. It doesn't cost anything. The nicer you are and genuine you are the more opportunities you will have.

FAITH: How long have you been in the industry?
ADRIAN: Oh my goodness, I've been doing makeup in this industry for 16 years. But my humble beginnings started in Houston Texas and I been living in Los Angeles for 10 to 11 years now. 

FAITH: So what made you choose Los Angeles and not New York? I know the market is different. 
ADRIAN: It's very different! New York is a different animal within itself. You know I love New York it is all about fashion, mainstream international beauty, New York Fashion Week, you work more with international models and tons of designers and creative people and some celebrities and huge socialite scenes. Los Angeles is not so fashion driven, it's more celebrity driven like red carpet, celebrity work, movies, film, music videos which I've done a lot of, advertising campaigns because of the beautiful weather we have. It look sunny but it feels cool so it's a great place to shoot. 

FAITH: What has been some of your greatest challenges? And what has been some of your greatest achievements?
ADRIAN: Just like any other artist and career the challenges that keeps coming up in my past and sometimes present, feeling stuck or in a bubble and not knowing how to get myself out of that bubble of feeling stuck. One thing I found if I feel stuck its because I stop learning and growing so when I feel that way I have to re-ignite my passion and direction. So it challenges me and push me further. 

My greatest achievements was when I was in Houston I entered the Tony & Guy Photographic Awards and I won 1st prize for correctional makeup. I did makeup on Alicia Keys with her tour on her first album, I did lots of advertising campaigns, Emmys, Grammy's, Oscars, Tom Hanks makeup. I'm very proud about coming back to Houston and sharing my passion and the sense of knowledge and education with my students because there is such a lack of it here. I am the traveling education destination for Houston. My brand is about that for students across Texas bridging that gap between New York & Los Angeles. 

FAITH: What keeps you inspired and motivated daily?
ADRIAN: It's keeping up with the trends, keeping up with other colleagues and other makeup artist to see how they are doing and how they are doing things and learning other peoples techniques not in a since of copying but just learning.. Experimenting on myself and others. Breaking the rules because that's the only way you will learn. If you don't break rules you are stuck to basic everyday regimen of doing things. So break rules, it's not only fun but you can also find yourself a new passion.

FAITH: What advice can you give to an aspiring makeup artist? 
ADRIAN: Don't listen to people who are not with you or supporting you because ultimately it's your passion, it's your love for the job you want to do. Get your hands dirty, get in there and start to assist fashionable makeup artists and see their work ethics. Don't follow makeup artists who are titter tottering  their career and who are negative. Stay around influential people and positive people because that's who you need to be mirroring in your career.

FAITH: I know many like myself and yourself in the beginning struggled with support from family members. What advice could you give to one that has the passion to be a makeup artist but is discouraged because lack of support? 

ADRIAN: Being raised in a Hispanic Mexican family my parents didn't have the knowledge back in the days to know that there was such a career as a makeup artist. It's ultimately up to us to educate ourselves on the possibilities on the career avenues that this industry has. And then it's up to us to educate our family members and to those that don't know because if they don't know they just don't know. So really it's up to us to research this field properly. You can jump in blindly into the cannon but knowing that there is going to be a safety net for you is even better.

FAITH: Mentorship, how important is having a mentor in your career?
ADRIAN: You know it is so important to have a mentor! I've had mentors that thought they were great mentors and in the end they taught me more than what meets the eye. They taught me how not to treat people, how we need to behave. Then I had mentors who taught me how to treat people equally with respect and love and care and with support and nurturing. And it's really important to find mentorship where ever you can and seek people you really admire and it's important for you to reach out and tell them that you look up to them as a spokes person, as a makeup artist, hair dresser and that you would love to assist them in anything that they need because all you want is for them to be your mentor because you respect and value them.

FAITH: So you do think that it is important to have a variety of mentors in every aspect of your life?
 ADRIAN: It is definitely important to have mentors in every aspect of your life for business, spiritual, life career. It adds a form of balance. Our job as makeup artists, freelance makeup artists, hair dressers, photographers, our job isn't a  9 to 5 type of job. One day you can be working on a set from 2 pm until 5 am in the morning so at what point are you going to see your family? So you need to have that fine balance of mental health, spiritual health, physical health but also you need to be well grounded with your family and find a good support system whether its through your family or friends or social network I think that is really important . Don't ever neglect yourself in the midst of finding your career because we are service providers. We give so much of ourselves and energy out to people because we are giving them our talent our artistry love and devotion, we give a lot so in order for us to be successful find the balance and find some time to recharge and to refill yourself.

FAITH: With there being so many Makeup Artist in the industry that are Instagram popular and Youtube popular does it discourage you sometimes? What makes you stand out as a artist and what advice could you give to our industry of artist when it comes to branding yourself and standing out? 
ADRIAN: I never get discouraged because I am confident with who I am and my education. I paid a lot of money for my education but I also made it my business to continue educating and reinventing myself. It's part of evolution! Technology changes, products change so I take it upon myself to make it my business TO reeducate myself. I'm not interested in a popularity contest because at the end of the day if real makeup artists want to be educated properly in the right way they will find me. I'm not really in it to make tons of money through educating a lot of people. I would prefer quality over quantity because my name is my reputation and brand. I'm doing very well with advertising campaigns and freelancing everywhere so I'm quite busy and I do the education twice a year in Houston. So what keeps me going is real students that want to learn real techniques.

FAITH: This is your time to give back. What information or advice would you like to share with the industry that you find to be important to you? 
ADRIAN: I think it's very important to continue your education and to look up other makeup artists to the caliber like +Charlotte Tilbury , +Billy Brasfield , +Lisa Eldridge  , +Sam Fine , Pat McGrath, There are other fabulous makeup artists that we don't even know about that exist so we need to make it our business to do the research and be inspired. You know when I'm in NY Fashion Week sometimes a car might be filled with just makeup then you have another car that might be filled with just books and references  so as equally as makeup is important and tools are important to our career books and references are as equally as important to what we are doing in this industry. 

FAITH: Any more information you would like for my readers to know about you?
ADRIAN: I want people to know and realize that I am just a good ole southern boy from Texas that is humble and I thank my Mom & Dad Mr & Mrs Villa for that. I had a good upbringing with the close family. Family is so important to me and I'm surrounded by beautiful friends and family all the time. And in my classroom that's how it is I'm tough in my class because I'm talented but I'm also kind, patient, and very understanding and I teach and show you the way.

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