The Star Shiner: Memoir of a Celebrity Make-Up Artist

My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces. My make-up artist , she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

Over 5 years in the making, this most comprehensive book, The Professional Make-up Artist, fills in the gaps left by all other make-up books to date. Joe Blasco, Vincent J-R. Included in this paperback edition are: Beverley Braisdell, Jennifer Lenard, The book is more than a celebrity memoir in that it is a narrative of the '70s, weaving the stories of the celebrities with Richardson's own life from the '70s into the '90s"--Provided by publisher. Every make-up artist started this way; we have all been there. On your training course you were the customer, with experienced make-up artists teaching you and considering your needs.

Now you will be expected to anticipate the make-up This book has detailed instructions on how to apply make up. Performing procedures on clients that exhibit contra-indications will: Discusses the unique beauty secrets of African American celebrities. David Henry Wilson, Drinking some white wine. I'm glad they're all hanging out together there.

I hope they have fun. Pippa jumps at the chance when she finds out the world famous, yet mysterious, supermodel Hecate Hardbroom would be the one to model it for her.

Insert drama, feelings, love etc. Would be fun to read such a fic, especially where Hecate would be the unexpected supermodel. Though neither one of us showcased natural excitement about this renowned event due to bad nerves and his personal disdain towards those who share his last name, his interest in making sure the preparations for myself were precise took precedence over anything else that was supposed to be planned for this evening. Stacey placed herself in charge of putting together this costly glam squad though I protested against it and of course, he financed it without a single question asked or a concern about the possibility of her going overboard with all of it.

If it were up to me, I would have gone to my usual hairstylist in Brooklyn and sat in front of the mirror in his bathroom applying my own make up. The less people who knows about and associates me with that, the better. Celebrity Ryoma taking casual pics with his backstage peeps. Ok but ultimate headcanon is that Lena always and I means always [lays with the children at the Luthor hospital.

Like no matter what she has going on during the week she makes sure to have Jess schedule it in every Tuesday no matter what.

It was put on 5 times in reading by 2 different production companies and that was very gratifying. I felt my book would be beneficial to other gay men and women starting out today in a world that is quite different than the world I grew up in, and certainly started out in. AIDS and youth are probably what I wanted most to address, as well as entertainment with the celebrities, and maybe some of the perils that can come from recognition.

Achievement can be good and bad and it is an issue that needs to be addressed if you are ambitious as I was.

I never wanted mediocrity. I came from a small town. It takes as much energy to succeed as to flounder. Depends in which direction you want to go.

Can you share a little of your book with us? How about an excerpt from the synopsis of the book? While America concludes the war in Vietnam, the reader is taken inside a world of sex and drugs where individuals are treated as stepping stones to the next sexual encounter.

We experience wild nights at Studio 54, downtown after-hours dungeons seething with sex and violence. The final story is ultimately a triumph over adversity in which a man struggles to find his spiritual path back to life through the ashes of a decade that best fits F.

Scott Fitzgerald's description of the Twenties: Can you tell us how you found representation for your book? Did you pitch it to an agent, or query publishers who would most likely publish this type of book? Not for the faint hearted.

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It was recommended to them; they read it, liked it, and said immediately they wanted to publish it. But they are a small company, not like the big ones, and have less to worry them. Easy roads are for cars. What would you say is the best reason to recommend someone to read the book and what are you hopes for your book? The book is informative on many levels.

There was a lack of police protection due to lack of funds that produced The Son of Sam, David Berkowitz murders, the subway vigilante, Bernhard Goetz, who took the law into his own hands and shot rampaging boys on the subway, the jogger rape in Central Park, etc. Not until Mayor Giuliani did the city begin to turn around. The book is a history of New York and particularly the gay culture at the time because after the Stonewall riot in , gay liberation began. What was the most difficult part of writing your book?