Katje, a make-up artist based out of Nashville, has worked on-set for several productions ranging from independent films and music videos to the Emmy winning “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. Katje shares her journey with us and throws out some great tips for aspiring make-up artists!
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>> I am an esthetician and makeup artist here at Natural Oasis, William Edge Salon and Spa. And I do esthetics which is facials, waxing, body treatments, and I'm also the lead makeup artist as well. I love going on set. I do freelance makeup. So, I love going on set and doing makeup for movies and television. And I think that's like the most exciting part about the job because everything is like different and unique and it's not like an office job where you have to go just like sit at desk all day. It's like every job is different. You don't know where you're going to go next. I worked on Extreme Makeover Home Edition, CMT. I've done a lot of independent movies. I've worked on numerous music videos. Probably my favorite experience was working on Extreme Makeover Home Edition because, I mean, just you don't really know what's going on behind set when you're watching the show. I mean, working with the families like being able to interact with them because they're just so like thankful. Like being able to help people and like still doing your job is probably the most like best thing ever. So, that was probably the-- it was just awesome.
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