Making Faces

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I've kept it through several moves, including a period of my life where all my belongings were split between the three friend's houses I was couchsurfing on. I've never completed one of the looks featured in the book. That's not what makes the book so valuable to me. The Tori Amos song "Taxi Ride" from her 2002 album Scarlet's Walk is a partial homage to Aucoin. He made a cameo appearance in a fourth season episode (Episode 2: "The Real Me") of the long-running HBO series Sex and the City. He was a major fan of the Comedy Central show Strangers With Candy and appeared in an episode alongside Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert as a funeral makeup artist (Season 2, Episode 4: The Goodbye Guy). In the show Fat Actress debut episode "Big Butts", Kirstie Alley's female hair and makeup artist goes by the name Kevyn after her inspiration Kevyn Aucoin.

If beauty was a religion, Kevyn Aucoin’s Making Faces would surely be its Bible – the sacred text that offers guidance, delineates right from wrong, is dog-eared beyond recognition and serves as a reference point for everything to come after it. For many, both professionals and otherwise, its ground zero for makeup – a turning point in how (and why) people use it to enhance and alter the way they look and feel. To say it changed the course of an industry would truly be putting it lightly. He was in a long-term relationship with Eric Sakas, who remained a close friend after their breakup. Sakas later became president and creative director of Kevyn Aucoin Beauty. [2] And I always just want to take care of them. Make them feel like - "You don't have to worry about anything right now. We're going to make you look amazing and get your confidence going so that you can go out there." He [Kevyn Aucoin] was very much that.

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From magazine covers to iconic editorials, if it was a high profile beauty shoot in the 90s, chances are it was kevyn. Here, we’re celebrating 16 of his most iconic looks – from a Marilyn-esque Naomi to baby-faced Nicole. For those like me who loved Kevyn the person, the heart now weeps as if made of watercolor. Earth has lost yet another light. Tiffany Bartok‬ on Kevyn Aucoin: "He could sense any fear. I know Linda Evangelista, he made her feel like 'You got this!' You know, 'I got you, you got this.' Because it's scary to be that vulnerable." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze TB: Not me, no. I see it as taking care of people. How I always feel emotionally doing makeup is like - everybody is kind of mean to the model and think they have it so great. Maybe the photographer, they're all mumbling, like, "Ach, the model, oh she's got it so easy, she just does this …" I don't know, but I'm so close to their face and I can sense, they're kind of lost souls sometimes. Not always.

The late artist is arguably one of the most decorated in his field. His attitude to makeup was fresh and exciting – it was a means to transform and make women feel naturally beautiful. His clientele included everyone who was anyone: Cindy Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Naomi Cambell, Linda Evangelista, Liza Minelli, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cher, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Christy Turlignton. His signature was sculpted, polished and defined – he added depth, light and shade like no one else. He was the creator of modern contouring – a method since adopted by its patron saint, Kim Kardashian Went. So many beauty resources aimed at trans women seek to assimilate us into a cisheteronormative view of beauty; we are enticed with the promise that we too, if we learn how to use blush, can ascend into unremarkability. Later, Aucoin would work with Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido on their Inoui line. [12] He would later be approached by both Vincent Longo and Laura Mercier to endorse their eponymous lines, [ citation needed] but decided to launch his own brand, Kevyn Aucoin Beauty, in 2001 instead. AKT: How do you feel about that? You are also a makeup artist. Do you have moments where it feels that way?

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Making Faces” is a romance novel set in present day Hannah Lake, Pennsylvania. Fern Taylor really like Ambrose but Ambrose only made jokes about about her looks. When Ambrose and his 4 best friends were sent to Iraq, a tragic deed was done. There vehicle was blown up and ended up killing everyone except for Ambrose. Fern was terrified because when she got the news she didn't know what had happened to him and in all that had happened she still loved him.He was okay but was scared inside and out, half of his body was burnt and rough. When Fern approached him so passionately he felt as if he was not good enough for her and she was doing it out of pity. But in time her learned to love her as much, if not more, than she had loved him all those years. Kevyn Aucoin: A Beautiful Life—The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist was published in 2003 by Atria Books and Simon and Schuster. The book was edited by Kerry Diamond and reviewed Aucoin's career through celebrity interviews, his beauty tips and techniques, and over 250 photographs. [19] DOC NYC 2017 Women Directors: Meet Tiffany Bartok — "Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story" ". Women and Hollywood. November 15, 2017 . Retrieved November 22, 2017. Coming up - Tiffany Bartok on the diversity of ultimate beauty, Isabella Rossellini's incarnation into becoming Maria Callas, the outspokenness of Tori Amos, makeup for the red carpet, a bullying interview with Dan Hunt, Kristin Scott Thomas's look in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, Kevyn Aucoin's need to share, and his favorite film being David Lynch's The Elephant Man. After the section on basics, there's a section of "looks" developed for ordinary people (male and female) alongside their own stories, which makes the book very accessible for those who might feel distant from the subject. The next section, which is entirely celebrities, is more "glamorous" but gives you the details of how to acheive those looks as well.

Broverman, Neal (September 14, 2017). "Remembering the Flawed Beauty of Makeup God Kevyn Aucoin". The Advocate . Retrieved March 21, 2018. In 1999 he received an honorary diploma from Harvey Milk High School for his support of gay and transgender youth. [17] Personal life [ edit ] Read this in The Internet Archive. I'm sure the original coffee table book must be more impressive with larger and clearer pictures. But I'm glad I read it anyway. Kevin draws faces with expertise. I liked reading about his past as well and feel very proud that he survived his turbulent adolescence growing up as a closeted gay teen in a conservative small town. Now, he is one of the most notable makeup artists of our generation and seeing him live his truth and release such popular makeup products is very inspiring. The book would be a great introduction to beginners of makeup and fans of Aucoin. Aucoin eventually found his birth parents, and was able to personally meet them and his half-siblings. TB: I connected to Christy Turlington's talking about how he really wanted all of it to come together - family, beauty. He could cosmetically improve his life but he wasn't ashamed of where he came from in any way. All the family was with him at all times for good and bad. We still go to all the film festivals with his siblings. That spirit is still very much there.Aucoin made appearances on Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show. [17] He played as himself in an episode of Sex and the City called "The Real Me" (Season 4, Episode 2), doing Carrie Bradshaw's makeup for a fashion show during New York Fashion Week. In addition, he appeared with Cher in "Gypsies, Tramps, and Weed" (Season 3, Episode 7) of Will & Grace. Moore, Booth (May 8, 2002). "Kevyn Aucoin, 40; Celebrity Makeup Artist and author". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved March 21, 2018. I tried to recreate one of Kevyn's looks on Lisa Marie Presley, which has always been one of my favourites. It's a far cry from anything he could do before he passed away, but I felt like sharing for the sake of the review. I should also note that the instructions regarding application are far from ample, but personally I skimmed over these parts. In the makeup world, Kevyn Aucoin’s iconic 1997 book Making Faces is largely considered the bible of its field—and not without reason. Many pros remember the first time they pored through the late visionary's how-to tome, and the subsequent visceral reaction they had to it. "When I was 17 or 18, I got it as a gift from a friend of mine who knew it was my dream to be a makeup artist," explains makeup artist Sandy Ganzer. "This is not hyperbole...it changed my life."