00:00This is me doing Margo's makeup Oscars day when Margo was nominated for a Tanya.
00:08What I love most about makeup is that when someone has applied just the right makeup
00:17and they look in the mirror and there is this spark of like,
00:25they know that they look like the best version of themselves in that particular moment
00:30but there's a spark of like, oh I like what I see and it feeds them with a confidence
00:37that's going to enable them to do whatever it is they have to do next.
00:42Whether it's just go to work or whatever their work is or to go show up on the world stage.
00:53I think it was these.
00:55These were the gemstones that I attached to Priyanka for the Met Gala this year.
01:05Is it in the right place? In the middle?
01:10Swarovski crystals. We don't mess around.
01:12Applied with lash glue to hold it on the face.
01:16That's the trick.
01:18Oh, this is Claudia Schiffer from the 90s.
01:21This was Bjork's big time sensuality video.
01:27Baby Britney.
01:28October 2005.
01:30June 2004.
01:32Oh, this was for your magazine.
01:34It was a beauty issue and me and Dakota.
01:37My first actress was Liv Tyler.
01:40I did Jennifer Connelly.
01:42Kirsten Dunn.
01:43Angelina Jolie.
01:45My biggest red carpet was with Naomi Watts.
01:49Charlize was great.
01:50She brought me into incredible Dior campaigns.
01:53And I worked on a film with her.
01:55The Huntsman Winter's War with her.
02:00I think the bottom line is about first making sure that person feels great.
02:05Like, you know, treating it as like, what can I do to help support them so they can do all
02:11this stuff they have to do.
02:13And whether it's, and it's hearing them, hearing what kind of mood they're in, and really just like making sure
02:19that you're not too much in their face.
02:21But you're also a support person that, if they glance, you're there. You catch it. You're there to help them.
02:32I was born in Germany, and we left Germany when I was just a couple years old.
02:37And then we moved to New York and then New Jersey. We settled in New Jersey.
02:45I discovered makeup at 10, and I became really obsessed.
02:49And I would sit in front of my mother's makeup table and play and play and play.
02:53And then I would start to do my friends for school plays and dances.
02:59And I knew that the second I graduated high school, I needed to get to New York City and figure
03:05out how I could do that.
03:09So I moved to New York City, got a job right away selling makeup at a department store.
03:14And then I was ready to play.
03:16And, like, I was painting faces of all these women, real-life women customers all day long.
03:24And then I started assisting.
03:27And I assisted, I think the very first person I assisted was Bobby Brown for a fashion show.
03:34And then I was really lucky to get invited to be on a very large team of Francois Nars.
03:44And Francois took notice of me at that show and asked me what I was up to.
03:51And just at that moment, his first assistant had left him.
03:55And he invited me to come around the next day, and I was with him for a year and a
04:00half as his first assistant.
04:03And he, Francois specifically, was an amazing teacher.
04:07He did one thing that was really interesting.
04:09He would do one side of the face, and then he would have me have to match the exact on
04:15the other side of the face.
04:16Another big thing that I was taught as an assistant, which is, don't do makeup in a room that has
04:23bad lighting.
04:24Go to a window. Go outside if you can.
04:26And Francois specifically taught me that if you do makeup in this natural light, no matter how it's being photographed,
04:34no matter if it's black and white or color photography, or film or still, or blah, blah, blah.
04:39If it looks good in natural light, it's going to look good in every other environment.
04:47Hi!
04:49So great to see you!
04:51Yeah! Hi!
04:52Yay!
04:53I'm so happy you came to play!
04:55Oh, of course!
04:56What's new?
04:57So many amazing things.
04:58Oh!
04:59You know we're all about the devices.
05:01The Glow Pro.
05:03Have you tried it?
05:04Not yet, but I think I might.
05:06It's amazing.
05:08What I think makes a great makeup artist...
05:11Wow, there's so many things.
05:13I mean, you need to be incredibly organized.
05:18Organized.
05:19Incredibly clean.
05:21How do you keep it clean?
05:23You spritz it down with alcohol.
05:25Alcohol.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Is this a flashlight?
05:28It looks like a flashlight, right?
05:30It's actually an LED light that's geared towards acne.
05:33Oh, that's great.
05:34It's a high-tech spot treatment.
05:35And I believe a great makeup artist is also someone who really cares about the person in
05:41front of them.
05:42Because then you're giving makeup and you're sharing makeup instead of dictating makeup.
05:49Oh, I haven't seen these.
05:51Oh my gosh.
05:51This is amazing.
05:52It's a cheek stain.
05:53Oh, that's for a cheek, not lip.
05:55Yeah.
05:55I think you can do double beauty.
05:56Is it a multi thing?
05:57Yeah.
05:57Ooh.
05:58It's just like a watercolor sheerness to it.
06:02So pretty.
06:02You guys are watching us geek out to the max.
06:05This is like, we could just stand here and talk about cheek texture just forever.
06:11Oh, can I try it on you?
06:12Yeah.
06:12Yeah.
06:14And I think what makes a great makeup artist is one who sees beauty everywhere.
06:21You know, and sees beauty in many ways so that you're not myoptically only looking for
06:29beauty in one particular way or place.
06:32That's pretty.
06:33Like a magic touch.
06:34Feels so nice when you do this.
06:36What makes a great makeup artist is people who feed themselves creatively, you know,
06:42and, and have like interests that are broad.
06:45Look at art everywhere and look at inspiration everywhere.
06:49That's a great makeup artist.
06:54Yeah.
06:55You see the Hollywood center here?
06:59It's pretty big.
07:05Well, I, I'm a morning person for sure.
07:10So I love early, early mornings.
07:12I love being up with the sun, like sunrise.
07:18I like the quiet of the mornings, but that's not to say that I don't love a sunset too.
07:24And especially, you know, getting to see in California such incredible sunsets.
07:30It's their magic.
07:33This is my favorite time to kind of come out here and walk because, uh, yeah, the light
07:39is so beautiful.
07:40It's magic.
07:47Two years ago, two and a bit years ago, there was this thing in my mouth that was weird
07:52and growing and they checked it out and it was something easy for the oral surgeon to
07:57take care of, but there was a scan of my, my head that was, uh, that was ordered.
08:03The radiologist who read that scan detected a cerebral aneurysm.
08:08So he called, he's like, good news.
08:11Benign.
08:12Uh, dah, dah, dah.
08:13You have to go back to the oral surgeon.
08:15But the radiologist, and I remember writing down, detected a cerebral aneurysm.
08:20And I didn't know how to spell aneurysm.
08:23So I need to refer you to a brain surgeon.
08:25So then I started meeting brain surgeons and to understand how risky it was.
08:31So it was decided that it would be best for me to deal with it and not have this fear
08:36of
08:36a ticking time bomb in my head.
08:38So I, um, yeah, I had brain surgery two years ago.
08:41Yeah.
08:41I had my head cut open and they clipped the aneurysm and, um, and I'm great.
08:48Never been better.
08:49And I'm blonde as a result.
08:51It's a whole other story.
08:57I feel like it gave me an, you know, a reboot.
09:01I'll call it a reboot.
09:02It was like, you know, a little reset button.
09:05Like, oh, priority shift.
09:07What's important?
09:10It's not like I do less now or I like slow down or something as a result.
09:14Cause I go, but I go more mindfully.
09:22So, yeah, this is a recreation of Margot's look from the London premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
09:31And I did a orange and purple eye.
09:35And then a deep, plum, sheer limb.
09:39Margot has a really incredible, uh, rare face that I've come across that you can do anything on her face.
09:50I can do a very strong, almost black lip, um, like I did for, that was Suicide Squad, New York
10:00premiere.
10:01She's wearing Alexander McQueen dress that had a unicorn on it.
10:05So what do you do with a silver unicorn dress, right?
10:07You do a black lip.
10:09Of course.
10:09Or she can take a crazy swatch of yellow eye shadow.
10:14Um, that was the premiere of Goodbye Christopher Robin in London, I think.
10:21It's just very moving.
10:22It's, it's beautiful and it's magic and it's moving.
10:25It's, it's amazing.
10:26She was wearing this Brock dress that felt very like nightgown with little delicate flowers.
10:32And there was these little delicate flowers and there was a little yellow in there.
10:35And I'm like, we got to tough this, toughen this thing up.
10:38This looks too soft.
10:40So yellow, yellow.
10:41Who can take that?
10:43Margot Robbie.
10:44She can.
10:44She can take anything.
10:51I think that people are more, um, willing to take risks with makeup now, now than in the past.
10:59I feel like in the past for, at least we're talking red carpet, right?
11:03In the past, I think that people were a bit more afraid to take risks.
11:08Now people are willing to like take, you know, edgier risks with their makeup.
11:14And I mean, I'm not going to take credit for that at all.
11:18But you know, two years ago, straight after brain surgery, my first job with Margot was that red carpet in
11:25London.
11:26And I did yellow and they were kind of like, are you okay?
11:30Are you a little like, you just had brain surgery, are you, are you sure?
11:33And I'm like, I'm sure.
11:34A swipe of bright yellow on a red carpet like that on a person like a Margot definitely got, gets
11:40attention.
11:41And I think it helps eke open a door for other people to feel confident to do something bold also.
11:58Do you think your, your 10 year old self or even a teenage self when you were just starting to
12:04do the makeup, what would she think of you now?
12:08Mind blown.
12:09I mean, she would be like, have no idea of the vast potential.
12:17I think she'd think I was pretty cool.
12:20It's pretty cool what I get to do.
12:25I can't imagine ever not doing makeup.
12:28I mean, I know that carrying that makeup kit around the world has a shelf life because it's hard.
12:35You know, it's hard to travel and it's hard to just physically do that.
12:42But I'm always going to find a way to keep doing it, you know, and, and whether it's, you know,
12:47living in, there's one fantasy of living in San Miguel de Allende and doing weddings.
12:52That's like, that's an idea.
12:54I might just say, bye, I'm going to go do that now.
12:57And I just know that wherever I go in the world, I could still do people's makeup and it doesn't
13:03have to be like big movie stars.
13:05I don't, I'm good with that. It's just, I want to make people feel like the best versions of themselves.
13:11And that's what I'm going to keep doing.
13:13I've been doing it since I was 10 and I hope I'm still doing it at 90.
