Icon: Kevyn Aucoin

Image via KevynAucoin.com

It's around this time of year, Oscar season, that I really miss Kevyn Aucoin. He was a masterful makeup artist, in the truest sense of the latter word.

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to meet Kevyn on several occasions and watch him work.  He was incredibly kind, terribly funny, quite smart, very sweet and a wonderful shoulder massager. He and I would have a chance to sit and chat and laugh while the "talent" was on set. And, in those moments, he stole a part of my heart.

He had finished his first book, Making Faces, and was working on Face Forward during that time, wowing us with his transformations. He truly saw the beauty and potential in everyone he met.  And he was gone much too soon.  His philosophy was clear:

Glamour is not self-conscious; it's not trying too hard. It's just expressing your own truth.

And expressing it well.  Here's to celebrating beauty...inside and out.