Less than 10 years ago, Hector Espinal was afraid to put his fingers near someone’s face, let alone execute a proper smokey eye. Now he regularly paints the face of Rihanna, one of the most celebrated singers in the world.
Espinal’s rise — not only to doing Rihanna’s makeup, but also as a global makeup artist for her highly successful Fenty Beauty brand — began in 2009, writes @alexa_writes .
Then a nanny, he put in an application at the Sephora located at 57th Street and Lexington in Manhattan. “I applied as a cashier because I had a phobia of touching people,” he said. “The guy who interviewed me asked me what I like to do for fun. My first answer was to party ’cause I love going clubbing. He’s like, ‘No what else do you like to do?’ I had this obsession with sketching, so for my second interview, I brought in my sketches, and he was like, ‘I want to make you into a makeup artist.’ I was like, ‘I think you should pump your breaks.’” Read more about Espinal’s meteoric rise on WWD.com, but first, see his clever foundation application tip.
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![The allure of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is hard to resist. For “On the Basis of Sex” costume designer Isis Mussenden, the appeal was as equally rooted in a love of fashion history as well as an interest in exploring Ginsburg’s story. “There were a lot of things that I didn’t know about Justice Ginsburg,” Mussenden told @ktauer . “I’ve known [about] her forever, but I didn’t really know anything about her prior to her becoming a Supreme Court justice. So I thought, what an amazing opportunity to educate all of us. And how important to women in this day and age, with everything that’s going on, to understand that there are so many different directions in which to fight the good fight.” More on WWD.com.
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