Makeup Artist: Mykie

Mykie

Artist Study 

I have chose to do an artist study on my absolute favourite makeup artists and a huge inspiration to me. I first discovered Mykie on instagram about a year a go and completely fell in love with her unique and creative work and I still religiously follow her and use her work to inspire my own work.

Mykie is a Los Angeles based self-taught makeup artist and vlogger with her youtube channel 'Glam & Gore'. She is known for her very creative and different looks that always contain extreme amounts of detail and talent.

Mykie comes from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started doing makeup at a young age and began as a self taught artist. Once graduated from film school, Mykie moved to California in order to be able to work on film sets. This is where the vlog and instagram account started. To build up her portfolio and keep practicing looks, Mykie began posting images of her work online using the 'hashtag' #100daysofmakeup. This is where she completed 100 different looks on 100 different ways using different themes and styles. From this she began posting videos of her creating the looks and step by step guides onto youtube under her channel 'Glam & Gore', which soon grew to 600,000 people following her. (Update: Mykie now has over 1,000,000 subscribers on youtube) Mykie creates looks from all areas of makeup from extreme horror and special effects, to beauty and glamorous looks - hense 'Glam & Gore'.

Since Mykie gained such a huge following she has been name Nyx Face Awards Beauty Vlogger of the year and become an inspiration to many people all around the world. Not only is she a brilliant makeup artist but through her videos she also shows that she has a very easy to get along with personality which adds to her popularity.

(Photo Credit : Mykie 2015 [instagram])

       (Photo Credits: Mykie 2015 [instagram]        

  

'Mykie consistantly brings us new, exciting, unique and intricate creations that we love and admire here at Illamasqua' - (Illamasqua Beauty Spotlight with Mykie)

"I find it easiest to look for makeup inspiration from other things in my life that I’m passionate about. So a common way for me to get inspired is to watch, listen to, or play my favorite movies, music, or videogames. Sometimes that inspiration is quite literal where I replicate a look as close to the original as I can, and sometimes it’s less obvious- like using the color palette from the cinematography of a film.
The other way I’ve been finding a lot of inspiration lately is to walk around a craft store. I go to Michael’s often and walk up and down the aisles until I find something that inspires me to build a makeup look around. It helps me think of ways to mix beauty makeup with objects not commonly used in makeup like feathers, or wire. I see the feathers and I get inspired to do soft, wispy makeup. I see the wire and I get inspired to do a sharp, intense look." - Mykie (Illamasqua interview unknown date)

I feel that as i continue to grow as a makeup artist i will use Mykies work a lot for help and guidance a long the way.

https://www.youtube.com/user/GlamAndGoreMakeup/featured

https://instagram.com/mykie_/

References

http://www.illamasqua.com/blog/beauty-spotlight-with-mykie_/  - Beauty Spotlight with Mykie, (ANON)

http://www.nyxfaceawards.com/finalist/glamgore - Nyx Face Awards, About Finalist Mykie. (ANON)

https://instagram.com/p/8q02XYJhtK/?taken-by=mykie_  - Picture   Posted on: 22.10.2015

https://instagram.com/p/7eRhS4phrL/?taken-by=mykie_  - Picture - Posted on: 17.09.15

https://instagram.com/p/6uVkYgphrh/?taken-by=mykie_  - Pictures - Posted on: 27.08.2015

https://instagram.com/p/2FP1Z0phkW/?taken-by=mykie_ - Picture - Posted on: 30.04.2015