Jen | Makeup Artist

Makeup Artist

COMMERCIAL

In her 19 years serving industry clientele as a professional makeup artist, Jen Murphy has worked on a wide range of advertising, catalogue, editorial, and entertainment projects for all media, as well as live performance. Jen is recognized for her exquisite attention to detail, her ability to craft a tailor-made look for each project, and her creativity in working with current trends.

PRIVATE

She also works with a private clientele for weddings, portraits, special events and makeup lessons and is known for drawing out the unique beauty of each face.

Philosophy

DISCOVERY

Jen Murphy is an artist of transformation who has honed her extraordinary talent for color and light into a tool of discovery. Her passion for beauty is equaled by her instinct for subtlety, and her forté is the natural look. Her goal is to create the most delicate or vivid physical embodiment of every person who sits in her makeup chair.

EMBODIMENT

Jen knows that seeing is not just believing, but becoming. Being on camera or on stage requires that one become a performer. Not only does Jen understand the difficulties of this task, but she can ease them with her sense of calm and skillful creation. When models, actors, and performers see their physical transformation at Jen’s hands, they embody their roles more completely. When she works with private clients for bridal sessions or private lessons, she helps them realize the most beautiful and confident aspects of themselves. In portraiture, she listens to, watches for and feels intuitively what clients want the world to see of them, their families or their businesses. She can enhance or create the essential qualities of any look, whether fantastical or real, editorial or refined.

PROFESSIONALISM

Jen appreciates the intimacy and trust involved in her work and strives for the utmost professionalism in every project. She pursues her skills through advanced professional trainings, the study of current trends and creative collaboration, and is known in the business for her warmth, playfulness and style. Jen finds inspiration for her art just about everywhere, especially in color and in people, and is deeply in love with life.

Esthetician

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

Originally, Jen became a Licensed Esthetician to delve deeper into her craft as a makeup artist, but soon fell in love with skincare itself. Every good makeup artist knows that a great look begins with good skin, but being able to help skin in becoming healthy and radiant requires specialized knowledge. For Jen, skincare is an integral part of the process of creating any look.

NATURAL SKINCARE

Over the last 5 years she has not only become proficient in caring for the skin, but is considered an expert in natural skincare. Committed to enhancing both the beauty and health of her clients, she has undertaken serious study of beauty products and their ingredients and will only work with the purest and the most effective of them.

BE YOURSELF BEAUTIFUL

In fact, she is so interested in this study and its importance to consumers that she now writes articles for BeYourselfBeautiful.com and freelances as a health and beauty writer for various publications such as elephantjournal.com.