Meet the artisits at GIELLA Custom Blend Cosmetics

Years In Make Up:25 years

Location:New York

Creative Influence:Fashion, Food, Italian Culture, Changing Lifestyles, Trends in Leisure Time

Favorite GIELLA Product:Foundation (whether it be in our liquid, cream or tinted moisturizer); Cuticle Oil with Grapeseed and Kukui oil

Favorite Beauty Tip:Keep it simple, recognize how much (or little) time you have and choose the right products. Select products that you are going to use and not sit in your drawer. Remember, beauty starts from within. When you feel glamorous and confident and pretty inside, makeup simply lands in the perfect place on your face, eyes, cheeks, lips and nails. Be "beautiful" for you, and only you.

Favorite Beauty Tool:Of course, Brush #6... a must have!

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Years In Make Up:6 years

Location:Henri Bendel, NY

Creative Influence:Being in a retail environment. I am influenced by a variety of looks and personalities.

Favorite GIELLA Product:Beaming lightswitch. It's a quick and easy way to get that young healthy glow

Favorite Beauty Tip:Blend! Blend! Blend! Make sure all colors come together gradually.

Favorite Beauty Tool:Crease brush # 6. It makes my life a million times easier.

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Years In Make Up:8 years

Location:Henri Bendel

Creative Influence:Nature. It captures and appeases all of your senses. It's the color of hydrangeas in the Spring or the colors of leaves changing in the Fall.

Favorite GIELLA Product:Without a doubt, Beaming Highlighter.There is no other product in the world like it. It makes any face luminous and dewy.

Favorite Beauty Tip:When applying makeup always start with eyes first. Eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara have tendencies to fall on your face and make a mess when applied. So save time and product by applying your foundation afterwards.

Favorite Beauty Tool:My # 10 GIELLA brush. You can use this brush for everything from concealer to eyeshadow. It's a synthetic brush so it glides easily and distributes the right amount of color on to your skin.

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Years In Make Up:2 years

Location:About Faces Day Spa and Salon, Towson, MD

Creative Influence:To find unique beauty in each woman and show it to the world.

Favorite GIELLA Product:Magnetic eye for the best eyeshadow application.

Favorite Beauty Tip:Always use a blush for a finished makeup look. Powder only on the T-zone to keep the shine away and cheek areas glowing. Also, use lip liner all over the lips for a defined look; and a great primer for red lipsticks.

Favorite Beauty Tool:Lip brush creating the most desirable lips.

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Years In Make Up:7 years

Location:Lower East Side, Manhattan

Creative Influence:I get most of my creative influence from the person I¡¯m working with. Most of the time I find that a person is born with natural beauty that leaves clues as to what colors to work with. For instance, I have noticed that some people have a natural, but very faint purple line underneath their bottom eye lash line. Instead of always covering that up with black eyeliner, I will make the line more intense with a purple shadow. It looks so natural and just makes the eyes pop. I also like to think of the colors in terms of a painting and the face in terms of sculpting. I use colors most people would not think for themselves but in a subtle way. I also pull some of my creativity from nature, and interior design.

Favorite GIELLA Product:People know that Giella¡¯s foundations are amazing mineral foundations but what some people don¡¯t know is that they can be used as an add-on to your skincare routine as well. Most woman put on foundation or tinted moisturizer everyday with out even thinking otherwise. The foundations start oil-free but we are able to put all these amazing natural oils into the foundations and tinted moisturizers for the added benefits of antioxident power as well as just the amazing moisture that helps to fight aging of the skin in the long run. I have a skincare back round and I believe that the natural ingredients of the earth are the best way to help any problem. We also have a very potent form of anti-oxidant called Amblica that can be added as well. This is proven to in time diminish the look of age spots and wrinkles.

Favorite Beauty Tip: My favorite Giella beauty tip is to use the Brow Gel. I feel the first step to looking well put-together is shaped and groomed brows. It is much more youthful to have fuller brows, and with one coat of the brow gel they look perfectly groomed. The tinted brow gels are amazing for matching your brow color to look more like your hair color and covering up grey hairs. If you don¡¯t want to use the tinted ones, we make the best clear brow gel. I have used others that dry and become obvious, but I like that this one is completely transparent.

Favorite Beauty Tool:Giella¡¯s foundation brush. I use one for foundation and one for cream blush.

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Years In Make Up:24 years

Location:Frances for GIELLA, Houma, Louisiana

Creative Influence:Art has always been a part of my life. Observing Color and how it transpires from Nature into our Lives of Fashion, Food and Design is a constant creative influence.

Favorite GIELLA Product:It is the Concept of GIELLA custom blend cosmetics. When a product, whether it is a lipstick, eyeshadow or foundation is custom blended just for you and has the perfect balance of color and texture, there is no doubt it becomes a personal favorite.

Favorite Beauty Tip:Remember your face is your canvas, by evening out skintones with the perfect shade and coverage of foundation, along with concealer and magnetic eye (a primer for the eyelids), your face will be ready for color to bring out your eyes and lips. When applying and blending color, always use a circular motion to achieve a beautiful soft finish.

Favorite Beauty Tool:Brush #6, it¡¯s like two eyeshadow brushes in one. The flat side is great for applying highlighter or all over color to the eyelids and the tip is perfect for circular blending color together.

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Years In Make Up:13 years

Location:Cole Street Salon and Spa,
2388 Cole Street, Birmingham, MI 48009

Creative Influence:Nature¡¯s colors, seasonal changes, making vintage modern, finding the fashion era in each woman. Capturing a moment in a memory, whether it is a scent in the air, a lipstick color you wore, the color of the leaves falling, or a song remembered. I am influenced by life, but most importantly, the beautiful face in front of me. It is my mission to bring out the transformation beauty can create. Let your ¡°Beauty Mark¡± shine!

Favorite GIELLA Product:Tinted moisturizer, it gives a unbelievable glow to the skin.

Favorite Beauty Tip:I always put at least 5 drops of tea tree in the foundation, not only is it an antibacterial, it gives the foundation a very clean scent.
I always enhance natural beauty, never overdone. Sometimes you have to know when to put the brush down! Less is more but more is good in the right places!

Favorite Beauty Tool:Foundation brush, it is super soft and the foundation glides to perfection on the skin.

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Years In Make Up:3 years. I have been trained at MUD and have my NY State Esthetician License.

Location:New York City's Henri Bendel and Oscar Blandi. Additionally, I take private clients at my home on 70th and 2nd, where I custom blend GIELLA cosmetics for individual clients and bridal trials and consultations. I also travel to do GIELLA trunk shows and custom color parties.

Creative Influence:The women that I work with are my muse. When they sit in my chair, I listen to their concerns and teach them how to achieve the looks they desire. I love, love, love to enhance women's natural beauty.

Favorite GIELLA Product:The pencils are my favorite! We are the ONLY make-up mixologists in the world that make custom color eye and lip pencils! But I am also a fan of "The Gift of Custom Color".

Favorite Beauty Tip:Using "Lively", "Pretty in the Pink", or "b-dazzle" around the inner eye and brow area.

Favorite Beauty Tool: I adore the #6 brush!

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Years In Make Up:8 years.

Location:NYC

Creative Influence:Beautiful colors really inspire me to create things that unique and really let my creative ideas really come to life

Favorite GIELLA Product:EMU oil is the most amazing product gives the skin a beautiful glow full of radiance.

Favorite Beauty Tip:Always use a high lighter whether it be EYE M GLAM or your own special creation, using a highlighter makes the skin dewy with a healthy glow.

Favorite Beauty Tool:A good crease brush, Brush #5

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Years In Make Up:5 years

Location:Nisha Nails and Spa, Wayne, NJ

Creative Influence:Besides fashion, art, and home decor, I am incredibly inspired by enhancing people's natural beauty through the art of makeup. I love experimenting with new colors and having the luxury to be able to create any product to suit my client's personal needs.

Favorite GIELLA Product:The custom made lip glosses are the best! Besides having endless color options created for you, there are also various scents that can be added in. I love the Vanilla Coconut, it's amazing!

Favorite Beauty Tip:Always take the time to incorporate skincare within your makeup regime. I like to start every makeup application with the Vitamin C + Ginseng Serum, it provides a smooth canvas to work with and feeds the skin with a healthy dose of vitamins and antioxidants!

Favorite Beauty Tool:I love the Brush #5, it's the perfect blending brush for eye shadow and also good for blending concealer under the eye for a more airbrushed effect.

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Years In Make Up:19 years

Location:Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Creative Influence:Life in motion, Beauty is everywhere!

Favorite GIELLA Product:Three-Wishes Concealer and Foundation Compact

Favorite Beauty Tip:Focus your time on creating a flawless foundation. Having a clean flawless canvas is the base of all beautiful makeup. Spend time practicing the art of making your foundation look airbrushed without making your skin looking made up. By using the Three Wishes Concealer and Foundation Compact, you can create the airbrush look professional makeup artists do. Just like a professional artist would, you can apply our light concealer where you need highlight, our dark concealer where you need contour and by mixing all three colors together, you can create the perfect custom blend color concealer, foundation or blemish cover up year round. Don¡¯t be afraid to play! The amount of moisturizer that you use plays an important part in how you foundation comes out. Experiment with different amounts of moisturizer and concealer. I like to apply my concealer while my moisturizer is still dewy. I find that this helps in creating a flawless high coverage foundation that is still translucent and allows your skins natural glow to shine thru!

Favorite Beauty Tool:Brush #4 - Next to creating flawless skin, well groomed and defined eyebrows are the most important thing for creating a beautiful canvas to apply your color cosmetics to! This angled eyebrow brush is fantastic for lightly filling in natural brows or for creating a bolder more defined eyebrow look.

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