Minimum Makeup, Maximum Impact!
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15 May 2013Four years ago, after launching my Makeup & Brow Bars at the LOOK Boutique at Duane Reade, I came up with the idea of hosting “Eyebrow Intervention Day” where the eyebrow shapings would be free for the day at all the RAMY Brow Bars. The idea was to announce that there are now prestige beauty [...]
Over the years as a makeup artist based in New York city, I’ve had the privilege of meeting and working on some very famous faces. While the professional side of me keeps me calm and collected during these encounters, the fan inside my head is always thrilled and excited to meet a celebrity or reknowned [...]
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27 Feb 2013Everyone looked great on Oscar night. The gowns, both gorgeous and not-so-gorgeous, were beautiful. The hair, both spectacular (Reese Witherspoon) and mediocre (Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner) got the job done. The makeup, however, was beautiful across the board. Did everyone play it safe? Yes. Did everyone look their absolute best? Yes. Every actress had neutral, [...]
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31 Jan 2013TV junkie that I am, I recently got sucked into watching the new show, “Catfish” on MTV. When I first heard of the show I assumed, of course, that it’s a reality show about fishermen who catch catfish, maybe even starring Sarah Palin, but no! Catfishing is when someone fools another person or people online [...]
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14 Sep 2012Having just sold my apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village and moving temporarily out of the city, I find myself commuting for the first time since I moved into Manhattan mere days after graduating college. My new place is still in disarray as I havent had one day off since the move to set up [...]
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25 Apr 2012I recently posted on Facebook that I estimate that I’ve shaped over 156,000 eyebrows in the past 15 years. I was rounding down. As you can imagine, when one spends their days shaping, correcting, guiding other people’s eyebrows, you learn a few things about what a great eyebrow – or a badly shaped brow – says [...]
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26 Jan 2012Would you believe the two models pictured are wearing the same shades of makeup? Well, they are! Obviously, their concealer and foundation match their skintone, but the Pure Radiance pressed powder, Alive Blush, Perfect Eyeliner, eyeshadows and Chutzpah Lipstick are the exact same on both models. Many of you know my philosophy of beauty is Minimum [...]
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8 Nov 2011Beauty and symmetry are universal truths. Regardless of ethnicity and varying cultures, we all know beauty when we see it. We all know a jacked up eyebrow when we see it too. This past summer I was in Zurich, Switzerland and could not help but notice what was happing there with the local’s eyebrows. Many [...]
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31 Aug 2011Help! I’m trapped on an island where we recently had an earthquake and a hurricane! This island is known as Manhattan, the epi-center of New York City, where, for the first time in the history of New York, the subways and public transportation were shut down, homes were evacuated and the general expectation was that [...]
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9 Feb 2011RAMY Cosmetics was one of the sponsors for this interesting show. The jewelry was really beautiful and having the show at the Bodies exhibit was very unusual and memorable. My friend Justin did the makeup and Warren Tricomi did the hair. Some of the RAMY products Justin used to achieve the look on the models: [...]