You may not know makeup artist Mimi Choi by name, but you've most likely seen — and marveled at — her work:
Author:Stephanie SaltzmanPublish date:May 16, 2019In our long-running series, "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success.
Just a week after the Met Gala, Choi took some time to discuss her unique career trajectory — and arguably more unique makeup style — with Fashionista. Read on for the highlights.I only actually started doing makeup five years ago. I was a preschool Montessori teacher before, and for three years I had my own classroom and I was teaching little children from two years old to six years old and I thought my life was set, but I wasn't completely happy. I thought it was normal to feel that way.
In the first module, I was just learning 3-D makeup. I kind of already had an idea of how to do it, but learning the fundamentals, the professional techniques of everything helped me realize the potential. And the teachers were amazed. I was shocked that everyone was surrounding my makeup and asking me, "Are you sure you've never done creative makeup before?" And I was like, "No. It was just my first time.
I think the only time I doubted it was the first day of school. I was scared. But as soon as I picked up brushes and started doing makeup, even like the first week, I already knew that could be something. I wasn't sure what kind of makeup job I was going to have, but I knew it was something that was going to make me a lot happier. Within a month, I already knew that was it. Yes, of course, because I had no arts background and I was starting to do illusion makeup.
I get inspiration from many different sources, but I try not to look at other makeup artists. I look at other art forms, like paintings, photography, music, sculptures. I also get inspiration from Photoshopped art. When I see digital art online, sometimes I look at it, it's really cool. I want to create it with makeup — I don't Photoshop my work.
A lot of your looks are so realistic and sometimes a little bit disturbing and dark. What do you hope to communicate through your work, and what do you hope people take from seeing them? Do people ever react negatively?
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