LAUREN C. WEAKLEY
                                            New York, N.Y.
                              Email: [email protected]

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SUMMARY:  Highly gifted and creative Makeup Artist with more than seven years experience in interpreting the make-up requirements of clients and to produce both a creative and technically accurate visual representation; ensuring that clients, models, performers, presenters and others have suitable make-up and hairstyles.

Professional Experience

Sesame Street and All Day Buffet Productions, Full Stealth Films, Clarins Cosmetics, Gawker Media

Freelance Makeup Artist
•Communicating with clients to clarify visual requirements. 
•Ensuring continuity in hair and make-up and liaising with other members of the design team to ensure the overall look/effect is consistent and coherent.
•Demonstrating and implement a practical understanding of lighting, the photographic process, colors and the impact of special effects/make-up processes on the skin and ensure that appropriate action is taken to minimize/eradicate any unpleasant side effects from the use of specialist make-up/hairdressing techniques.
•Taking detailed notes and photographs of work, maintaining an up-to-date portfolio of work undertaken.
•Maintaining awareness of health and safety issues and legislation.
•Fitting/manipulating/applying wig’s, and hairpieces.
•Maintaining wigs, hairpieces, and other specialist materials and equipment.
•Reading scripts to ascertain materials/look required.
•Building rapport with make-up subjects, which may include cosmetic customers, members of the public who are being interviewed for television, as well as professional actors or presenters.

Summary of Qualifications
•Exceptional knowledge of advanced makeup artistry and cosmetics industry.
•Profound ability to address customer concerns, demonstrating empathy while consistently moving the customer towards commitment.
•Uncommon ability to organize and control job responsibilities, particularly the accuracy and productivity related to work flow.
•In-depth ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects in fast paced environment.
•Uncommonly detail oriented with excellent problem solving and follow-up skills.
•Strong interpersonal skills; remarkable ability to achieve results through team leadership.
•Excellent time management skill - knowing how long a subject will take to be made-up and work quickly and accurately in time-pressured conditions.

Education
Cosmetology Certificate
Pickens Technical Institute Aurora, Colorado (2002)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puU2Fmw58Ds
This is a pilot that I did Makeup, Hair, and Styling for.

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