About me…

As a professional make-up artist, I get close, both figuratively and literally, to women. They come to me to design a beauty routine that will serve them well every day.

My 20’s were spent as a professional rock singer and I had to make myself up each night to go on stage. I was challenged by a truly awful complexion, and I must have had some raw talent, because I discovered, without any assistance from the Internet, how to cover my acne effectively and in such a way that it would last through three hours of performing. 

I moved to New York City in the mid-1980’s to further my music career.  In 1990 my late, great ex-mother-in-law, had asked me what I’d like to do with myself, so I mentioned that I was “good with make-up,” and the next day, she called to say that she had “happened” to have met a make-up artist who was looking for an assistant.  That make-up artist turned out to be Laura Geller, of QVC fame. I worked briefly behind Laura’s counter, and freelanced for her and another cosmetic success story, Kimara Ahnert, for the next 14 years. 

At the same time, I completed my undergraduate degree in Religion from Hunter College in New York City.  I was Valedictorian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in my junior year.  I then went on to earn a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.  So that was cool.

I don’t love make-up.  I love my clients, and have an abiding compassion for women who face the aging process in a world where youthful beauty rules. Let me help.

Awards:

Philadelphia Style Magazine (Best of Style)

Philadelphia Magazine (Best Makeup Service; Best Makeup Application)
Main Line Today Magazine (Best Make-up Artist)
Brides Magazine Philadelphia (Editor’s Choice)

Award of Excellence, Wedding International Professionals Association

Some famous folks I’ve worked with:

Gemma Chan, Ali Larter, Jordana Brewster, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Billie Jean King, Alysia Reiner, Martin Short, James Earl Jones, Michael Gandolfini, Joel Edgerton…

Select Publications:

New Yorker Magazine
People Magazine
Allure Magazine
Martha Stewart Weddings
Philadelphia Wedding Magazine
Philadelphia Style Magazine
Main Line Today
New Jersey Bride
Southern Wedding