Make-up Artist Interview With Aisha Naomi Of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Q: What is your favorite or most exciting aspect about your job?
A: Getting the opportunity of creating new looks.

Q: What surprises you most about working as a makeup artist?
A: The amount of people you get to meet.

Q: Describe your “Classic Approach to Beauty.” how do you define beauty?
A: Beauty is from within.

Q: What individual products and brands you’re “addicted” to at the moment and you use on a daily basis?
A: I definitely use M.A.C products always!

Q: What are some of the most basic but effective skin care tips in general that you have, that are really important?
A: Moisturizing.

Q: What is the biggest skin care dont’s?
A: Not taking care of your skin.

Q: Have you had an extreme, crazy or bad experience with a skin care product or during a makeup session? If so, what happened?
A: I had an allergic reaction to a product, I just had to wait until it went away.

Q: What do you find to be the most common mistakes women make with makeup? What’s the worst thing a woman can do to her skin?
A: Using makeup that’s in fashion and not a classical contemporary look.

Q: What do you think are best/worst trends in the makeup / skin care industry right now?
A: The best is the bold eye, and the worst would be too much extravagance.

Q: Do teenage girls needs to splurge on high-priced makeup products, or are drugstore items are just as satisfactory?
A: I always recommend drugstore products to young girls, they get to experiment and have fun.

Q: What feature(s) do you love to accentuate?
A: Eyes

Q: What are your steps for the perfect, flawless, natural look?
A: Beautiful skin.

Q: What is a really quick way to change a day look to a special occasion or nighttime face?
A: False eyelashes.

Q: What are the differences between applying makeup on models and on real women?
A: Models are usually are for print or runway, real women are for real life.

Q: In terms of eyeliner, if you had to choose between a pencil, liquid, or creme/gel based, which one would you choose? Why?
A: Gel, it’s easier to apply and always looks great.

Q: Lip gloss or Lipstick. Which product is best? Why?
A: Both of them are great, just used on different occasions.