Val Garland: Amplified Realness

Photoshoot for MAC (spring 2014)

MUA: Val Garland

Photographer: Miles Aldrige

(source: maccosmetics.com -date:Oct 29th 2014)

Makeup artist Val Garland is a "rebel" and a fearless rule breaker from Bristol. As she is a self thaught makeup artist and says that it's OK to make mistakes. That is the only way you will learn, and also the reason why she's not aftaid of taking risks; it will either work or be a disaster. But in her case, most risks are a complete success. Once, she covered the models' faces with clear gloss and made them put their faces into a box full of glitter - and it worked.
She works with MAC and has done makeup for everyone from Lady Gaga and Kate Moss, to designers such as Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Also, she made her mark on many Vogue covers. Give her any tool and she will find a way to use it; she even used a potato and pieces of cotton wool to apply blush!
I've researched some of her work and found the image above. The makeup is not as extravagant as some of the work that she has done, but I really like how it looks simple, yet quite effective. 

Amplified Realness
I loved the look she came up with in this video. By adding freckles she made very natural makeup look even more natural and real, I think. Every day women fake their eyebrow shape, beauty marks, hair colour and change their face structure with contouring. Then why not fake the one thing that makes women look most natural - freckles. 

A screenshot I took from the video 

MUA: Val Garland

Hair: Alex Brownsell

Model: Lisa Verberht  at Elitte

Autumn/Winter issue of Dazed (2014)

(source: http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/22239/1/val-garland-amplified-realness -date: Oct 29th 2014)

http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2013/04/5-reasons-we-love-val-garland-makeup-artist.html
http://models.com/people/val-garland
http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/22239/1/val-garland-amplified-realness
http://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/2013/04/08/val-garland-make-up-artist-interview-kate-moss
http://ladygaga.wikia.com/wiki/Val_Garland
(all information found on Oct 29th 2014)