Face It: Kevyn Aucoin

Source: http://kevynaucoin.com/the-brand

Kevyn Aucoin was born in Louisiana and had always had a keen interest in make-up from a very young age. Kevyn began to realise he was gay at the age of six, he was often bullied at school due to his sexual orientation. When Kevyn grew up he moved to New York in 1983 where he hoped to start a career in make-up taking with him his portfolio of his work. When living in New York Kevyn managed to fulfil his dreams when he became recognised through Vogue. He photographed nine covers for vogue between 1987 and 1989 and on top of that he also did seven cosmopolitan covers. Kevyn was always fully booked and for one make-up session he would often charge as much as $6000.

Kevyn was working for Steven Meisel on the set of high fashion shoots and backstage at couture shows. He soon became a top make-up artist, painting and sculpting the faces of magazine cover models and celebrities such as Cher, Gwyneth Paltrow and Janet Jackson.

Revlon offered Kevyn a job in 1993 as Creative Director for their prestige ultima II line of cosmetics.

Kevyn Aucoin transformed celebrities and models to make them look like other celebrities or historical figures and this was shown in his books which he published throughout the 1990's.

Later Kevyn created his own Beauty Brand and launched it in 2001. Sadly Kevyn was diagnosed with a brain tumour and passed away the year later in 2002.

Below are some Photographs of some of the transformations in which Kevyn Aucoin created!