After I bought the decision to do Britney Spears’ make-up in Vegas, I’m not going to lie—I used to be excited.
The best way I landed the gig was really a humorous six-degrees-of-Hollywood story. Her publicist was the one who referred me. He additionally repped Kristanna, whose glam I’d completed, and Meredith Brooks—sure, Meredith Brooks of the “Bitch” music, who I had labored with on the VH1 Divas concert events—so he figured I’d be a great match for Britney. He was proper.
Britney is enjoyable. She genuinely loves hair and make-up, and truthfully, all of it seems to be unimaginable on her—she’s a kind of uncommon faces the place you may barely go unsuitable. We did a few pictures for her to submit throughout our time collectively. One was a shot of her again, taken from behind after a killer exercise. I captioned it “Britney’s Again,” and he or she thought it was cute sufficient to submit herself.
One other time, we bought into an entire bit about Austin Powers and staged a “a million {dollars}” pinky-to-the-mouth picture, which was simply ridiculous and ideal. In between all that, we talked about courting, films, no matter was occurring—the conventional stuff you discuss if you’re sitting throughout from somebody for hours at a time. That complete summer season felt much less like work and extra like a slumber occasion that occurred to have actually good lighting.
The scheduling that season was its personal sort of magic trick. On the similar time I used to be doing Britney, I used to be additionally glamming Reba throughout the road at Caesars Palace. The 2 of them by no means as soon as overlapped—the week Britney wrapped her run of exhibits at Planet Hollywood was the precise week Reba’s residency picked up at Caesars. So I’d end with one, cross the Strip and begin proper again up with the opposite.
Wanting again, that’s the a part of this job individuals don’t all the time image—it’s not simply the glam chair and the flashbulbs; it’s the logistics of trotting your self and your brushes from marquee to marquee (within the desert, no much less), all whereas retaining two utterly totally different ladies feeling like themselves underneath two utterly totally different units of lights. However that’s Vegas for you. And that’s the job I really like.
