Michael Anthony is a renowned New York-based makeup artist who attributes his baby steps into makeup to his aunt selling Mary Kay cosmetics door-to-door.
Whenever he got grounded, he would hole up in his room by himself and play with art supplies. The exposure to the makeup world from such a young age primed him for a career in the beauty industry later on in life. Eventually, everyone in his family realized that he had a passion for art and a natural skill for it; after high school, he got a job at MAC Cosmetics and it was a rocket ship from then on.
Anthony moved to New York, started traveling to Milan and Paris for fashion weeks, and amassed a loyal celebrity fanbase in the process, which includes chart-topping pop sensations Katy Perry, Rita Ora, Tinashe and Brooke Candy to name a few.
He describes himself as a non-conformist. He states that people who conform to traditional expectations of beauty bother him because he thinks it perpetuates the wrong mentality about makeup, which is that everyone has to look like this to be beautiful or wear their makeup a certain way.
Because of his background in fashion and cosmetic advertising with Maybelline and Covergirl, he has done a lot of avant-garde, kooky editorial looks in the past and because of that, people trust his instincts and his intuition. He always lets the moment exist in real time and for him it’s important to collaborate with whoever he is working with. It’s about finding a place on the map that you want to go to and it’s up to him to get you there. It’s different for everybody, but he loves using color and doing things that are a bit unexpected.
He wants people who he worked with to look in the mirror and see themselves the way that they had never seen themselves before, whether that be a super elevated version or an editorial version of themselves. He always likes people to look like who they are, but completely maxed out in their individual beauty.
He is represented by Opus Beauty and you can find his portfolio HERE
