DC Makeup Artist KiKi L'Italien

Makeup Tip: When starting with airbrushed foundation, match textures (wet) for blushes/highlights to avoid streaking.

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WASHINGTON, DC – February 2, 2011 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce KiKi L'Italien has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for bridal makeup artistry!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that ...

As my social media consulting work takes up more and more of my time, I am having to become more selective about the makeup jobs I accept. Fortunately, weddings tend to happen on the weekends and the production jobs I enjoy I can sometimes arrange my schedule around.

This year I am working on a few creative weddings with makeup to die for, a couple celebrity clients with promotional work coming up, a makeup tutorial for a DC bellydancer, and a headshot event for a local wome...

The dirt was flying through the air. Hair mussed and still somehow falling in a heroic/attractive way (how can hair do that?), the leading man stepped forward and growled, "They call him the..."

Wait a second. Wait just...one...second. Did you see that?!? What was that blinding light? His teeth? His TEETH?!? How could teeth possibly be that white? Are they real? They look real...Jesus, they must glow in the dark. Do you think someone could ever have teeth that white while ...

Working with so many clients over the years, I have seen many types of skin and heard about many types of skin treatments that work and do not work for people. One of the most amazing truths I've come across is how significantly small changes can positively affect a person. 

This month I decided to share some of these small changes with my readers.

Small Changes that Create Big Results:

• Take off your makeup before going to sleep...

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past few years, you have been influenced by the presence of the hit show, Mad Men, on AMC. The show features old school ad men swigging scotch in their offices and buxom beauties from the secretary pool holding court over the more administrative tasks while looking for suitable husbands. The show is a throwback to the Rat Pack era of manly men and womanly women and the effects can be seen in fashion and beauty across the world.

For...

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that DC Makeup Artist KiKi L'Italien has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, res...