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      • A man dubbed the original celebrity makeup artist, a 6′4″ cosmetics legend who sculpted the faces of the biggest supermodels and celebrities in the ’80s and ’90s, Aucoin has left a legacy that is still alive and thriving today. Makeup artists used to be kept behind the camera; today they are celebrities in their own right.
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    He began publishing his creations in books: The Art of Makeup, Making Faces, and Face Forward, two of which became Time magazine best sellers; Making Faces debuted at number one. Face Forward was widely noted for introducing makeup sculpting and contouring to the general public for the first time.

  3. Apr 23, 2020 · In the makeup world, Kevyn Aucoin’s iconic 1997 book Making Faces is largely considered the bible of its field—and not without reason. Many pros remember the first time they pored through the...

  4. Changing faces, starting trends and the introduction of contouring Aucoin’s legacy was his ability to changes faces with makeup and usher in some of the biggest beauty trends of the 1990s. One example: it was Aucoin who revived the 1920s pencil-thin eyebrow trend (made famous by Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard and Joan Crawford), when he ...

  5. Aug 10, 2017 · After moving to New York, Aucoin would do test shoots on models for free to build his portfolio and was quickly discovered by Vogue. The years that followed saw him work closely with acclaimed photographer Steve Meisel on over 18 Vogue shoots, including Cindy Crawford’s first ever cover.

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  6. Nov 16, 2017 · One of the most astounding facets of the documentary is the depiction of Aucoins reach as an artist—his legacy inspires the future of makeup artistry and bridges the generational gap between...

  7. Feb 14, 2019 · Not only did the late, great Kevyn Aucoin sculpt faces, he reshaped the entire beauty industry as we know it today. I recently watched Kevyn Aucoin: Beauty & the Beast in Me , an inspiring Netflix documentary that takes the viewer through Kevyn’s life via celebrity interviews and clips from hundreds of his personal tapes.

  8. Aug 17, 2018 · Using only his brushes, Aucoin turned a fifty-something Martha Stewart into a dead ringer for 1940s femme fatale Veronica Lake, and transformed his own 66-year-old mother Thelma into Marlene ...

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