Business Beyond The Brush: Recent Episodes
Multimedia Makeup Academy of Esthetics, Cosmetology + Special FX
Business Beyond The Brush focuses on sharing an artist's journey from when they first thought about makeup as a profession to their present day success. By sharing these stories, our hope is to provide inspiration and support to makeup enthusiasts, makeup school students, and new artists in the industry.
- Emily currently resides in Nashville, while traveling back and forth to Detroit & LA.
- Emily specializes in event, celebrity, grooming, & commercial makeup
- Emily Grey was interested in the art of makeup from a young age. A pivotal moment was having to cover acne as a teen, realizing the power of makeup.
- Emily started as a model in front of the camera where she quickly came to realize her passion for makeup artistry and reversed her position from the front of the camera to behind it.
- Emily prides herself on a balanced skill set of bold glamour, flawless editorial, and clean natural looks.
- Emily’s true gift is making her clients realize their most beautiful selves while making sure they are comfortable with the entire process.
- Emily's background includes studying classic art combined with her relentless search for staying current with the latest styles and techniques.
- Emily enjoys spending time with her loved ones.
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- Jill is a premier global makeup artist focused on the world of beauty, bridal, entertainment , film and television.
- Jill is a beauty expert with over 15 years experience around the world.
- Jill focusses on exceeding her clients high expectations. Jill currently provides services in Palm Beach/Miami, New York, Caribbean and Europe.
- Her skills include: Airbrush techniques, Corrective makeup, Fine art background, Basic FX, Skin tone and texture expertise
- Jill has done celebrity makeup and has been presented in a handful of bridal and fashion publications. She has also landed huge jobs in the film/TV industry doing makeup on set of movies & TV shows such as; Rock of Ages & Ballers.
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- Gregory is an Emmy Award Nominee, the Director of Makeup Artistry for MAC Cosmetics based out of Los Angeles.
- Gregory was born in LA & has been doing makeup professionally for over 25 years.
- He started out with a major in art history and theatre, and then began his makeup career at the Los Angeles boutique Fred Segal in 1989.
- Gregory began working for MAC Cosmetics in 1993, beginning as a traveling makeup artist for the brand and evolving into a trainer, a senior makeup artist, and currently holds the position of Director of Makeup Artistry.
- In 2015 he won the Hollywood Beauty Award for Best Makeup Artist. As well, he won the Ibiza Music Award for Best Makeup In A Music Video for Gwen Stefani's "Misery".
Gregory considers himself a “beauty exorcist.” “He believes in bringing out the true beauty in a person, while respecting their features, bone structure, coloring, and most importantly, their personality.”
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- Shay started as a freelance makeup artist while earning her bachelor's degree from Oakland University.
- Shay started her career in beauty as a MUA during her last seminar of undergrad.
- After graduation, Shay explored beauty full time and never left. She has been a freelance artist, celeb artist, M.A.C artist and M.A.C. Regional Manager (13 year career at MAC), and now a business owner ( Shay B. Beautiful-Business & Beauty Solutions).
- Today she provides branding and coaching services to beauty pros, brands, retailers, and creatives.
- Shay is a wife and mother of 3.
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- Working in the beauty industry for over 20 years.
- At age 18 attended hair school, but turned down her place in the biggest hair school at the time in Calgary, Alberta and chased her dreams of becoming an editorial hair and makeup artist.
- After 2 years of settling into Toronto and securing a job in a prestigious hair salon Dyan went back to school.
- Quarter of the way through hair school she transferred to the School of Makeup Art.
- Bartend at night and went to the local MAC Pro store to offer her services as an assistant and model to artists.
- Additional certificate and diploma courses over the past 20 years include:
- waxing, eyelash extensions, eyelash extension trainer, business, Reiki and crystal healing.
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- Eryn Krueger Mekash has over 33 years of television and film industry experience as a makeup artist and is diversified in beauty, makeup effects and design.
- IATSE( International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees)
- PGA(Producers Guild Awards) winner.
- Eryn started her career in the special makeup effects field in Los Angeles.
- Eryn has won 8 Emmys- 7 for makeup and 1 for producing- and 10 Artisan awards and well as 34 Emmy Nominations for outstanding makeup, prosthetic and non-prosthetic.
- Eryn worked with Ryan Murphy (American screenwriter, director, and producer) for 17 years on almost all of his projects.
- Eryn met him on Nip/Tuck. James Mackinnon was the department head on the pilot and asked me to be his key.
- James left to do another show and Eryn moved up to department head.
- Eryn was on Nip/Tuck with Stephanie Fowler Ziese until Glee started in 2008.
- Then Running With Scissors, Eat, Pray, Love, American Horror Story, People vs. OJ, Feud, Versace, Ratched(Netflix original series), Hollywood, and recently the film, The Prom.
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- Washingtonian Magazine’s award winning makeup artist since 2012.
- Developed her own technique in applying cosmetics and began a career path as a makeup artist post graduation.
- While attending college at George Mason University in Virginia, Stiles secured a position with the Esteé Lauder Company (event and stage makeup).
- Provided makeup services for concert productions including Cher and Missy Elliott.
- Started her own business providing on location makeup services for events.
- Worked with publications such as Glamour, Vogue Bambini, Surface, Oprah Magazine, Capitol File, JCK Luxury, Virginia Living, and Washingtonian.
- Work with Verve Music Group's Melody Gardot for her album cover.
- Worked at New York Fashion Week providing makeup for designers Alexandre Herchcovitch & Rad Hourani.
- Chosen as a presenter for The Powder Group
- Lead hair and makeup artist for international broadcast network, EWTN, Beauty Guide at LimeLife by Alcone
- Victoria Stiles Hair and Makeup LLC, providing makeup for celebrities, red carpet, events, and political figures.
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- Keri grew up in Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C.
- Keri Blair is a beauty makeup artist with over 18 years experience in the industry.
- Keri works for M.A.C Cosmetics as a Senior Makeup Artist on the M.A.C Pro Team.
- Keri has worked extensively in the beauty and fashion industry for almost 15 years supporting international runway shows, beauty and editorial shoots, celebrity clientele and theatre.
- Keri discovered M·A·C in 1993 and hasn’t looked back since.
- Keri currently lives in Brooklyne, New York.
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Megan Woomer Murphy is a Michigan based makeup artist.
- Megan is an Emmy-Award winning makeup artist and licensed cosmetologist. She specializes in commercial, production, bridal, & special event makeup.
- Megan started doing makeup when she was a preteen. Her friends quickly noticed her talent. Those friends were her first clients.
- Megan attended cosmetology school when she joined the MAC Cosmetics team where she then became a MAC certified artist.
- Megan's training at MAC included;intense training in makeup artistry, color theory, HD makeup, camouflage, contouring and period makeup.
- After 5 years with MAC, she moved on to Chanel and refined her artistry with their luxury makeup line.
- Megan now works as a freelance makeup artist. She continues to style for weddings, photo shoots, music videos, and celebrity appearances.
- Megan has been featured in high-end beauty publications such as: Elle Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Allure, Hour Magazine Detroit, and People Magazine.
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James MacKinnon is a world class makeup artist.
- Around 31 years of film and television experience in all aspects of makeup, special effects, and design.
- 5 Emmys
- Star Trek Discovery
- Nip/Tuck
- American Horror Story: “Freak Show”, “Hotel”, and “Roanoke”
- Has three Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Artisan Awards
- Numerous other Emmy and H&MU Guild Award nominations for outstanding makeup.
- Served as Department Head or Key Makeup Artist on over 115 projects in his career to name a few:
- “Fast and the Furious” franchise, “GI Joe 2″, “Priest”,“Halloween H2O”, “Parks and Recreation”, Steve Jobs Biography
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The Makeup Your Life Podcast welcomes MMA Lead Instructor, Christina Newman, and Sanitation Conversation Lead, Jen Coakley to discuss the Multimedia Makeup Academy approach to clean practices and how Sanitation Conversation is helping push the Sanitary Makeup Practice movement to a global perspective.
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Welcome to Multimedia Makeup Academy's new Podcast: Makeup Your Life!
The weekly show that details the life, career, and journey of makeup artists hoping to prove that there isn't ONE solution to achieving your dreams!
This week we talk to Alisa Marie of Alisa Marie Makeup Beauty Studio. The Shelby Township Beauty Studio has been open for business and thriving as Alisa tries to introduce the area to Eyebrow Lamination and become the number one makeup option in the area.
Alisa is a graduate of Multimedia Makeup Academy and has attempted to work for others before, but hear her tale on learning the business side of makeup, taking the leap of faith on herself, and finding happiness while doing it!
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Makeup Your Life is happy to welcome Aspiring Artist Monae Stewart to the show to discuss how to keep the Makeup flame alive no matter the level of resources available to you!
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Nicole Diehl, instructor extraordinaire, and Jen Coakley, an instructor moving into an exciting new path for her career, discuss getting in makeup, how different the career can be from one year to the next, and a have bit of fun with each other!
As always, Makeup Your Life is your chance to learn that career in makeup is never too far out of reach, is completely unique from so many other walks of life, and is a wonderful opportunity to create lifelong, impactful relationships.
If you're interested in starting your career in makeup, there is no better place to start than Multimedia Makeup Academy! We're even celebrating our 10 year anniversary and are offering A TON of new reasons to join this year!
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The awards have been handed out and Multimedia Makeup Academy is ready to review what went down! We go over the Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling as well as breakdown all of the winners and losers that we felt were deserving and maybe not so much.
We are joined today by fan-favorite guest Christina Newman, the lead instructor at Multimedia Makeup Academy and the biggest movie buff on campus!
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Lauren Najdovski joins the podcast as a Multimedia Makeup Academy Graduate, to tell her story of moving from the Makeup retail space, to experimenting in Horror Special FX from home, to becoming a full-fledged makeup artist!
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Matt and Kelsey sit down with Brandi Myree, the Admissions Director of Multimedia Makeup Academy. She has an amazing (and emotional story) of how she got to where she is now. Another incredible tale of highs and lows that you can't help but relate and feel for Brandi. The hosts absolutely adore Brandi and we think you will too when we're all done!
Are you interested in checking out a career in makeup? You can tour with Ms. Myree, herself, by heading to Multimedia Makeup Academy's website and setting yourself up with a private tour!
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Our first non-Multimedia Makeup Academy guest is HERE! Sharilyn Wester and Matt Klink met on the Makeup Reddit pages and thought a conversation about Sharilyn's journey would be a welcome addition to the podcast discussions. While we do discuss Sharilyn's journey, Matt and Shari begin to discuss some deeper topics involved in makeup, consumerism, and hero worship.
We are proud to call Shari our first Non-MMA guest and now very proud to call her a friend of the show!
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Matt and Kelsey sit down with MMA Lead Instructor, Christina Newman, and MMA Grad Lauren Najdovski to discuss this year's Oscar Noms and who you should be watching out for.
Christina also gives us a brief history and overview of the Makeup award and we discuss the biggest flubs in Academy Award history.
That AND MUCH MORE on this week's episode of Makeup Your Life!
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The journey into Makeup and Special FX is a grueling one, but it doesn't have to be a lonely one. Nicole Diehl and Kathleen Berg are wonderful examples of how two individuals can work together to better each other and still find time to stay extremely close as friends!
Both Kathleen and Nicole find themselves at Multimedia Makeup Academy, but their makeup backgrounds have pushed them into very different directions. Nicole, now one of the top instructors at MMA, has been helping grow the industry through teaching and passion.
Kathleen has found herself growing the makeup industry as well but does so as a Sales and Admissions rep for the Academy. Both ladies took classes together at MMA, but as you can see, the diverging paths can still lead one to success.
Check out their place of work at mma-makeupacademy.com!
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Welcome to Episode 2 of Makeup Your Life! The individual entrusting Matt and Kelsey to deliver the much-needed message from this show is Devawn Testagrossa. She's been wanting a show that lets people know that makeup is a possibility for everyone and that it's never too late!
For Devawn, that message couldn't relate more to her personal journey. Check out her story as she tells us all about switching careers, turning her makeup career into an entrepreneurial venture with Multimedia Makeup Academy, and how she continues to help the makeup community today! As you'll hear, we could not have been more excited to kick this interview off and we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording!
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Kelsey and Matt are SO excited to share with you, the journey of one of their friends and colleagues, Christina Newman. Christina is a Special FX Makeup Artist who has helped put together zombies, talking rats, and some gruesome horror effects. She now is the lead instructor at a Special FX and makeup school and she was gracious enough to take a little bit of time out of her day to encourage YOU to consider Special FX and makeup for your future.
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