FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My pricing is comprehensive to my skill set and experience and appropriate for the geographical area. booking fee minimum in-studio makeup application per look is $100 per person. My service is priced fairly, so I do not offer additional discounts. I prepare for an hour prior to our appointment, and then clean, sanitize, and organize all the products again after the makeup session so pricing is conducive for the time before during and after the appointment. Offsite makeup requests are assessed on an individual basis and will require a contract, deposit, and travel fee depending on location.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
To help create the optimal look for individual clients, I start by asking several questions. Makeup is very personal and preferences can differentiate greatly, so the more I know about your lifestyle, skin type, makeup personality, and your comfort level with makeup in general, the easier it is for me to achieve the look that a person truly desires. It is of equal importance to design a look that suits the needs of the individual, or the brief that I have been tasked to accomplish. All people and faces have their own unique qualities. Questions will often relate to but not be limited to a client's particular likes and dislikes regarding products, colors, and texture. If the client has an example of a photo that they really liked how they looked in that image I will ask them to describe what exactly they liked about themselves and why. Additionally, I ask for guidelines from Pinterest or other online sources to get a visual of the type of look my client is looking to achieve. I then take this information and create a customized look by plugging in the information gathered and apply it to the person's features that I am working with. The hair type and color, skin type and undertones, eye color and shape, and age of the client. I also ask about the context of the setting where the client will be exposed. Understanding the lighting the photographer or Videographer will be working is imperative. Whether the event will be held indoors, outdoors, in-studio, on a runway, wedding, portrait portfolio photography, television, both, what time of year, what part of the country, etc. When a makeup artist understands and pays attention to the details, they can only then use their product, knowledgeable people, and application techniques to their highest potential. To create synergy with the client and team of professionals is always the goal.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I am also a licensed esthetician, so I have knowledge regarding the skin and continue to participate in continuing education to keep that license active. Additionally, I am active in online training with other high-end cosmetic companies to stay current with product knowledge and makeup trends. I enjoy continuing to broaden my knowledge base in makeup artistry and all of my interests. I have experience working with tight schedules and high-pressure events such as providing makeup artistry for TV, video, and various in-studio and on-location photography settings. Before I started doing makeup, I had a background in Fine Art and a partial scholarship to the Ringling School of Art and Design.