What inspired you to pursue this career path?
"My family has an artistic bent (dancers, sculptures, architects, chefs). Somehow I became an athlete with a college scholarship. I soon realized that art fulfilled me in a way that athletics couldn't. I shifted gears and focused on fashion at SAIC. Makeup can take an ordinary moment and make it extraordinary. I love the reveal, when I have been working with a model or bride and they see what they have become in a very short period of time. It's emotional, unlike anything I have seen (short of cutting off all of you hair - which, I've done a few times)."

On Mercedes: J. Crew chambray shirt, Isabel Marant snake print cotton velvet pants, one-of-a-kind silver Chrome Hearts bracelets, YSL Tribute sandal, Nars Lipstick in Heat Wave.


Photographed by Heather Talbert