It’s no big surprise that I meet people all of the time, and recently I made the acquaintance of two awesome young ladies, Andrea and Jenna, who work for Ford Model Management (see my post on the P&G Beauty awards to check out their pics) anyway, Andrea and Jenna were so great that night. We chatted before the ceremony started and Jenna let me know that she runs the artist division at the Toronto office. Naturally, I gave her a confused look, who knew that Ford a name synonymous with beautiful models represented artists! I’m sure Jenna didn’t see the drool slowly escaping from the corner of my up turned lips.
In my promise to reach out to her and send my regards and thanks for being such great company at the awards ceremony, I emailed Jenna. Jenna responded and suggested I meet and interview one of her artists. Yes, I’m skipping parts of the story, you will just have to wait for it. I saw some of his portfolio and lost my mind, well at least momentarily. I emailed back and said “YES” as loudly as I could through the Internet and told her that I would be glad, neigh honored, to interview him. So we set something up and this post is a result of that meeting. His name is Evgeny and he is one of the most talented make-up artists I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. Get to know him a little bit - you’ll be glad you did. Meet Evgeny in his own words…
How did you become a Make-Up artist?
Chasing girls, which is kind of unusual in my work. I started because I was in art school and I had a lot of friends who were in the fashion industry, but none of them could draw, so they would come to me and be like “Evgeny, can you draw this design for me, can you sketch this out” so I would. In the process of sketching the clothing for them I would also design the hair and the make-up of girls in the sketches. I would go to their fashion shows and be back stage giving out my sketches to the hair stylists and the make-up artists. But, then I would watch what the make-up artist was doing and I would say “No, add this colour here.” or “I think this line should be more like this - well let me show you.” I would take the brush and make the changes so it looked more like the sketches I had drawn. My friends were like “Evgeny are you a make-up artist?” and I would always say no. But because of art school it was an easy transition for me and well being young and spending all my time around beautiful girls, I said why not, at that age what more can you ask for?
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