One of my best moments with clients comes when I mix together a custom blended foundation that perfectly matches their skintone. The delight they experience at discovering the difference perfectly blended, custom foundation makeup can make for their look is always tinged with empowerment, and freedom--if they can flawlessly pull their look together, it seems to grow their confidence that they can do anything.

In my experience, most clients come into my professional makeup studio having spent years settling for a "pretty close match" from the makeup counters in the department stores, thinking that the mass marketed makeup colors were "good enough" because that makeup was all that seemed available. When your custom blended foundation glides over your skin, and your makeup comes together effortlessly, elegantly, and invisibly, the experience is nothing short of a revelation. Learn More

I have been in the beauty business as a professional makeup artists for twenty years. I have seen a great need for woman to seek out custom blended foundation and their personal, custom colors, as well as to understand the finer details of professional makeup application. When a woman comes into my makeup studio and sits in my chair, we start talking. I ask her about her foundation first, always. What is working? What isn't? As we talk, I start blending... Learn More

A firm foundation: "I wasn't sure I needed help with my makeup--I certainly didn't think I needed custom blended makeup. I understood where shadowing should go and the makeup colors that worked with my skin. But with a job interview coming up, I wanted to pull my look together. I met Andrea at her Bay Area makeup studio--and I was completely surprised to find that custom blended foundation changed my look entirely. I was getting by with a 'best match' -- Andrea got my skin tone perfectly. I have never looked as good as when I stepped back out of her makeup studio."