Make-up guru in SA
US MAKE-UP artist Sir John has an impressive list of clients including global singing sensation Beyoncé‚ Khloe and Kim Kardashian and Priyanka Chopra.
Sir John is in the country to host two beauty masterclasses with Woolworths and to style the make-up for SA Fashion Week.
Sir John shares some information on the multi-award winning superstar, Beyonce. to‚ if I happen to have one glass of wine too many‚ I am slipping out the side door.
I don’t want my client to see my tipsy. It’s about a level of respect.
She never has any time and she’s so not patient [laughs]‚ so her thing is a statement lip. She actually taught me about this. I was always about the eyes.
What she’ll do if she has like 30 seconds‚ is take a lip liner and colour her whole lip in‚ and then put a matte lip on top. And it becomes so impactful. And no foundation. No concealer. No mascara. And her hair in like a messy bun. And that’s modern.
That’s the future if you think about it. Just the bold lip and nothing else. moment‚ and then when we went to another country‚ I just wanted to make her look like Diana Ross. And she would be like‚ ‘do what you want’. And in those times‚ that’s where we bonded on tour. Because you see so much stuff happening.
We were on tour and seeing so many things on the news‚ like killing after killing‚ after killing of black guys by the cops. You come into work heavy.
Hair and make-up became the time that we would talk about what hurts us about society and the world we live in. And the next thing we know‚ she came out with Formation‚ which was so much like what was going on around us at the time.
She has a formula. She just loves beautiful skin and natural beauty‚ so if I know she loves that‚ I’m going to nail that and everything else is going to be the icing on the cake. For concerts‚ she doesn’t care. She’s just like ‘do whatever you want to do’. — DDC