Growing up in Oklahoma, I learned a lot about teased hair, blue eye-shadow and glitter. In high school, I listened to bands whose music strongly encouraged the wearing of black eyeliner. Majoring in theater in college, I learned how to make someone look good from two hundred feet away, or really old, or like a Southern belle in Kabuki-style theater. I honed my skills by adapting my stage make-up to street-worthiness, forced by the rigors of college poverty to be thrifty and creative.

I moved to New York City in 2001 and worked for MAC Cosmetics in downtown Brooklyn, Harlem, and SoHo. I have since worked with bands on TRL and BET, done make-up for weddings on the Upper East Side, worked Fashion Week in Midtown, and toured with a band as their personal hair and make-up artist. My work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Fader, Trace, Heart & Soul, among others. To keep it simple, I do make-up for any and all kinds of people and purposes. And I'm told that I do a killer smokey eye.