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Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist

Life of an average girl

About Me



I hate doing bio/about me crap but here it goes ...
Stupid random facts:

I’ve got a sick/juvenile sense of humor, I make fun of everyone including myself, I am kind of jaded & maybe a bit bitter at heart, I want to trust people, I get easily hurt but don’t show it, I like to garden, I love loud music, I am scared of spiders, I love soy milk.
Bio:
I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. My grandparents lived across the river in Iowa, I spent half my day with them & half in Nebraska. I was raised around horses & farms. My dad was not in the picture growing up but I had enough men in my life, with 3 much older brothers, to make up for his neglect. Mom was a nomad, gone most of the time working to support us brats. I never had many friends as we moved a lot & I kept mostly to my book collection, piano or sketch pad. As for education I had very little of it. Like I said we moved a lot & I was in & out of school so much I almost didn’t make it through high school.
My grandmother was a major influence in my life, after she died a very slow & painful death from cancer we left the Midwest for the last time. We moved to California when I was in my early teens, straight to the ghetto in Oakland which was a totally different world. My mom moved us around the US quite a bit before the Cali move. I’ve lived in a good portion of the fifty states before I was 15.
At 19 I moved to San Francisco to study fashion design. After a few years of collage I moved on to work in the costume department of multiple theater & opera houses in the bay area. This is where I learned the basics of makeup by watching the pros at work.
I gave up theater with its crap pay & tried to pursue a “normal life” as an office girl in a reality brokerage. That lasted about 2 years before I ran away to L.A. after hooking up with a modeling agency. Once I got here I quickly realized that I loathed L.A. & moved to NYC after getting picked up by another modeling agency. Some how I managed to end up back in LA & I am still here.
No more modeling for me now, just fun stuff here & there for friends. I’ve moved on to my true love of the moment, makeup. In December of 2006 I was named Beauty Editor of J’Adore Magazine & now I write about my work, reviewing products & doing how-tos, it’s a real dream come true for me. Even though makeup is my main thing I also dabble in photo retouching, photography & webmastering for my sites. Basically anything creative I can get my hands on brings me joy...
My Partner in this life.
My links
My Deviant Art Wishlist
The super nifty mag ima workin for...

My Interests

art, work, makeup, photo editing, web design, gardening, reading, facebook, making fun of people including myself.

I'd like to meet:

del tha funky homosapien

Music:

david bowie, iggy pop, rolling stones, tom waits, Johnny Cash, Aimee Mann, Sara McLachlan, Chet Baker, Operation Ivy, Rancid, The Distillers, The Misfits, 2pac, Masta Killa, Mos Def, Outkast, Public Enemy, Xzibit, ACDC, Afghan Whigs, Janes Addiction, john Frusciante, Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Red hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cardigans, Tricky, roy orbison, elliot smith, jeff buckley, lenoard coen, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder, Souls of Mischief, Brother Ali, Del The Funky Homosapien, Eazy E, EPMD, Hieroglyphics, Jedi Mind Tricks, MF Doom, Lupe Fiasco, Amon Tobin, Bob Dylan, Bones, The Eagles of Death Metal, The Airborne Toxic Even, Emmylou Harris, Franz Ferdinand, Lou Reed, Louis XIV, Peter Gabriel, R.A. The Rugged Man, The Ramones,

Me doin makeup on the today show.

Movies:

Aki Kaurismaki movies, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, dangerous liaisons, blue velvet, napoleon dynamite, psyco or anything hitchcock, unbreakable, pride & prejudice (the bbc version), clockwork orange, elephant man, batman, the brat pack movies, boogie nights, white oleander, magnolia, fight club, the shining, falling down, punch drunk love, Park Chan-wook movies

Television:

deadwood, rome, the twilight zone, x-files, family guy, twin peaks, law & order, the dave chapelle show

Books:

silence of the lambs, choke, there are a million others but ima too lazy to write them in here

Heroes:

my family & friends... in each of them i see something to admire & look up to.

Ville Kansanen

My Blog

Colorful

makeup: mehair: linh nguyenphoto: gl factory...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:23:00 PST

Her face is flawless

& he is one of the best photographers ever. If it's possible for a makeup artist to have a muse she is it.Makeup/Hair: MeModel: Sash SuicidePhoto: Michael Schmidt...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:35:00 PST

Hiring MUA’s & hair stylists for a 2 day June shoot

I am looking to hire 2 MUA's & one hair stylist for a magazine shoot in June. Please email me [email protected] only, do not respond here. I need to see samples of your work & a resume. Tha...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:14:00 PST

New stuff

makeup: mehair: holly jonesclothes: mother of londonphotos: allan of venus weptmodels: evan & ally...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:22:00 PST

Orange Sliced

Makeup: meHair: Linh NguyenPhoto: Justin HyteModel: Tara @ Click...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:17:00 PST

Justin Hyte part 1

Makeup: MeHair: Linh NguyenPhotos: Justin HyteModel: Tara @ Click
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:34:00 PST

NYC beauty

Here are a couple of shots from one of my NYC shoots. Makeup: me, Hair: Linh Nguyen, Photo: GL Factory...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:02:00 PST

Learn from a master

One of the most amazing artists I've ever worked with was kind enough to do a detailed & really insightful interview on AllMakeupArtists.comFor anyone in the biz you should really read this interv...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:37:00 PST

Video work

Here is a neat new video from a hair & makeup gig I did a while back. I love love love this model.Here is a screencap of the video, to watch it check it out on her page....
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:28:00 PST

The worst day

I am having the worst stupid day. I'll make an attempt not to go into too much detail about everything but please allow me to vent in a summed up way. I couldn't get to sleep last night after getti...
Posted by Alex LaMarsh - Makeup/Hair Artist on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:16:00 PST