Showing posts with label Pro Make up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pro Make up. Show all posts

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Oompa Loompas?


 OOMPA LOOMPA:




1. A native of Loompaland, usually tending towards attributes of small size, an orange commplexion, and green hair; the first recorded information of them comes to us from Roahld Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I love my job as a make-up artist.  I get to meet exciting new people and play with make-up. What's not to love? One day I might find myself working with younger people, the next day older people; one day I am on a photo shoot with professional agency models, the next day I am helping someone who is hoping to become a professional model. Being a make-up artist means it's never the same thing twice!


Me and the Oompa Loompa guys...  Photos by the fabulous Priscilla Iezzi, currently with Orange Coast Magazine.

To get the make up just right, I referred to my make-up morgue first. No Ooompas there. So, I studied images from the original Willy Wonka's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie with Gene Wilder, then compared them to the latest version of Willa Wonka's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp. Attempting to create the perfect shade of orange,  I worked to customize a blend of creme foundations from Ben Nye and the professional pan sticks from my own line Tina G Cosmetics. While researching for this photo shoot,  I found some fun stuff. Turns out there is actually a Willy Wonka fan club.Who knew?

Willy Wonka trivia: Did you know that the Oompa Loompas in the Johnny Depp version of Willy Wonka's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory were all played by the same actor? It's true! The actor playing all the oompas with Johnny Depp is Deep Roy (Gordeep). (He played all 165of them.)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746989/bio
Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka

Urban Dictionary Definition:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Oompa%20Loompa
Video of Original Willy Wonka Oompa Loompas singing:
http://youtu.be/qw0zZttfUaw
Willy Wonka Fan Club link (no I wasn't joking):
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory




Sunday, April 1, 2012

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Kurv Magazine shoot with Adrienne Maloof, Make up by me, styling by Annie Funn

When I got the call to do make up for Adrienne Maloof, I was thrilled. Hired by an International Magazine, Kurv Magazine out of Australia (link below), we were told that the photo shoot would be filmed for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 1, since Adrienne was currently filming with the show. They wanted to capture her more "sexy" side and the styling team was given the theme of "Old Hollywood Glamor" as inspiration for the shoot. Location for the shoot was the one story sky villa at the Palms hotel in Vegas. http://www.palms.com/accommodations/las-vegas-1-story-sky-villa/  It was amazing. I got to work completely with natural light--which is my favorite. On the show, you can see I worked with Adrienne in my leopard covered studio chair, right by the windows. The best part about the whole day was that I used my own make up line Tina G Cosmetics on set. I used Micronized Airbrush Make up from MAC (silicone based) for her foundation, and she is wearing various blush shades, eyeshadow and liners, and lipsticks and gloss from my line. I will update with more specific information soon.

People always ask me what it was like to be there, to meet Adrienne Maloof, to work behind the scenes of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It was amazing, fun, exciting, and one of the greatest days of my make up career. Adrienne Maloof is one of the nicest, sweetest, down to earth celebrities I have ever met. She is gorgeous in person and truly a pleasure to work with. I heard in the end, she was the most popular "housewife" and I can see why! I'm so glad the whole thing was captured on camera. My kids get a kick out of watching "Mom on TV".

Kurv Magazine:
http://www.kurvmag.com.au/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=589&Itemid=12
Adrienne Maloof's blog for Bravo TV:
http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/season-1/blogs/adrienne-maloof/musings-by-maloof
Behind the scenes story by wet paint:
http://www.wetpaint.com/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/photo/adriennes-glam-photo-shoot
Full episode can be seen here: Photo shoot is toward the end of the show. I'm the blonde make up artist in all black!:
http://www.gorillavid.in/cnb/tjbyrgv2fi5f
 
Final Pictures from the Magazine:

I was interviewed about the shoot and got the following tag line in the magazine:
Thrilled to work with celebrity fashion stylist Annie Funn:
www.anniefunn.com
Photographer Wolf 189
Photos from Kurv Magazine Australia