The Brow Guru

Now that's a makeup table!

Working her magic on one of the models

Discussing what looks the models like

Photo Credit: Stellarroar 

On Instagram you know her as the Brow Guru (@LeslieTheBrowGuru) but I got to see her as makeup artist extraordinaire for the Beatniks fashion show. If you think it's hard just getting ready with your girlfriends before a night out, try working on 10 models under a intense timeframe! Somehow Leslie makes it all seem so easy in our interview we did the week of the Beatniks fashion show. 

PolishedPractical: I’m here with Leslie, who’s doing the makeup for the fashion show. For a show like this, how many looks are typical?

Leslie: Typically we try to pick at least three looks and try to narrow it down to maybe even two. It just depends on how long it is, but this is pretty normal size, so two-three looks.

PP: Ok and then when it comes to you picking them – are you doing all that or do you collaborate with the designer?

L: The designer usually will show me her prints and then I’ll usually come up with something. This is more of an era style so like right now we’re doing a run through and then she’s going to pick the one she really likes. We’ll probably for times sake pick an easier one to do and just go from there.

PP: Oh ok and on the night are you switching up their makeup with different looks or you just do it at the beginning and then your doing more touch ups.

L: More touch ups for this event. They’ll definitely be a lot of touch ups and there’s a lot of girls.

PP: I noticed you had all the models around the table and you had them looking at some papers, what is that? Are you giving them options to see what they like?

L: Yeh we’re kinda giving them more options of what they wanna do. At the end its pretty much up to us but if a certain girl likes a certain look then I’ll try to go with that. But these are all just tests more than anything.

PP: It’s a show so obviously you’re restricted by some kind of time limit. What happens if you ever go over time, how do you handle it?

L: It’s stressful. Being in the industry so long you just have to wing it and I mean its just time management. You gotta let out the models you’ve already finished and do whatever you can do. Maybe conceal a few things here and there, throw some foundation, throw some lip gloss on and some lashes and that’s it. You know, lets go!

PP: How long before the actual show starts do you start working on the models?

L: We’re literally still working on them as the first model goes out. As one models going out we’re finishing the next one and then the next one. We usually try to give each model at least 30 minutes so we try to give ourselves five hours which should be enough time. There’s going to be five or six makeup artists so it should work out.

PP: And this is pretty standard size, 10 models?

L: Well obviously not for a big shoot like a designer house but for something like this, that’s more of an up and coming runway show 10 is pretty normal.

PP: Nice, thank you for giving us a little behind the scenes knowledge!

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