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Tracey Payne, Makeup Program Director
From the beginning of her own career as a two time Blanche Macdonald graduate (Makeup and Fashion Marketing), Tracey Payne has been a sought after talent; a gentle yet powerful force who has impacted...
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Ilona Verley’s Two-Spirit Fierceness Shines on Canada’s Drag Race
Makeup doesn’t merely transform faces. It has the power to change lives. If proof were ever needed, look no further than Makeup Graduate Ilona Verley, whose message of Two-Spirit Indigenous...
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Arbutus Laser Centre Clinical Director: Mimi Le Fox
Mimi Le Fox speaks of her impressive career with such a grounded, matter-of-factness, it’s easy to overlook the work it took her to get there. But hard work is not only one of her personal values, but...
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Code Maker: The Unique Creative Exploration of Makeup Co-op Graduate Daisy...
It’s not easy explaining exactly how Daisy Hsiang spends her days. Even Daisy can’t pinpoint the precise focus of her entrepreneurial adventures. She’s a fashion Makeup Artist. She’s a photographer...
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Kristine of Kaebaby Nails: The Nail Tech that Almost Wasn’t
Kristine Rojo always had her nails done. When the end of high school seemed to loom over her, she decided that she at least didn’t want to have to pay to get her nails done forever so she would learn...
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Top Vancouver Salon Artel Celebrates Five Years of Business and Three Locations
“We opened Artel Cambie in 2017 and that was a commission salon. We eventually got to the point where we couldn’t take on any more stylists! People always used to ask ‘Are you going to open another...
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Unicorn Hair and Bold Hues: Field Trip’s Mane Painter Nessa Pineda!
In a Guns n’ Roses shirt with her adorable adopted PomChi, Roxi, looped under her arm, Nessa is pictured on Field Trip Hair’s website as a self-proclaimed “Mane Painter”. Mount Pleasant’s Wes...
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Beauty Entrepreneur Faye Smith and the Evolving Business of Bridal
Faye Smith never planned on becoming a superstar beauty entrepreneur in Vancouver. In fact, if it weren’t for a fortuitous Google search in the English Midlands a decade and a half ago, she might...
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Evan Clayton: Canada’s Own Drag Fashion Visionary, Makes It To The Drag Race...
Photography by @fcysneiros For Evan Clayton, the realm of possibility is truly endless when it comes to designing drag fashion for the world’s most celebrated and infamous drag superstars! On the...
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Tatiana Tavares’ Gastown Beauty Studio Becomes Her New Creative Playground!
For someone that explains her style as “always fun and colourful” Tatiana Tavares is one of the nicest people—possibly ever—with a heart that’s made for human connections. Whether that’s with one of...
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Maxine Hillestad: Fashion Buyer at Major South Africa Retailer Mr. Price
Maxine and I coordinate our interview over Whatsapp, mainly in Spongebob Squarepants memes and emojis. The nine-hour time difference between Vancouver and South Africa takes some thinking through....
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Gabriela Benito’s Movie Makeup Artist Journey Takes Flight in Mexico
Why exactly would a working TV and Movie Makeup Artist take a break from a successful career to travel from Mexico to Vancouver and study Makeup at Blanche Macdonald? For Gabriela Benito, even the...
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Katie Quinn and Downtown Betty Create Clothes with a Conscience
For many fashion designers, owning and running a successful label might be considered mission accomplished. For Katie Quinn, her amazing street/beach/yoga line Downtown Betty is just one part of a...
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Nikki Dindo Brings Social Media Mastery from NYC to BMC
So how exactly does a suburban Vancouverite obsessed with fashion turn that passion into a career in Public Relations that takes her to the heart of New York Fashion Week? Not only has Nikki Dindo...
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Salon Business Owner and Makeup Artist Courtney Vieira Refreshes Port Moody
In the near-decade that Refresh Salon has been open in Suterbrook Village, Port Moody, the area has seen two high rise buildings come in, with two more on the horizon. For Refresh Salon business owner...
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Kirsten Wong—From Physiotherapy to Burgeoning Buyer for Lifestyle Concept...
“Floor Supervisor, Style Advisor, and Key Holder are all roles I’ve been able to flourish in at The Latest Scoop. And soon, I’ll be able to add Buyer to that list!” Kirsten Wong has been flawlessly...
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Blanche Nail Grad Sarah Deptuck Living her Dream at Nanaimo’s The Nail Lounge
If you ask Blanche Macdonald Nail Studio graduate Sarah Deptuck, she’s “living the dream. I’ve got a position at one of Nanaimo’s best nail studios and have awesome clients who let me do some really...
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Fashion Design Graduate Katsuki Shimizu Builds the Future in Japan as...
Katsuki Shimizu is used to pressure. From the baseball diamonds of Tokyo to Fashion School in Vancouver and back home to fill editorial position at some of Japan’s leading fashion magazines, Katsuki...
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Pro Hair Graduate Patrick Uy: The Master of Moods
Looking back, it seems like it was Patrick Uy’s destiny to become a top Hair Stylist. Not that he could have anticipated becoming one of Canada’s most promising stylists while he was growing up in the...
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Makeup for Movies—Grad April Pangilinan Goes from Screening to Silver Screen
Ten years ago April Pangilinan was stuck in a job screening passengers at Winnipeg airport. These days she’s doing Makeup for Movies, mixing with A-listers as one of Canada’s brightest Artists in TV...
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