Growth , Longevity, and Innovation in the Makeup Industry with Nikoletta Skarlatos

April 27, 2019
10:30 am - 11:15 am

Ramada Plaza, 450 Capitol Ave. SE Atlanta, GA 30312

Speaker:
Main Stage

Growth , Longevity, and Innovation in the Makeup Industry with Nikoletta Skarlatos

This class will talk about all aspects of the industry how to get into the industry how to maintain a career in the industry how to behave in the industry I will have an artistic demonstration as well as a slideshow going behind me I wikl have people who have worked for present to express The necessity to learn and grow: whose careers I have nurtured; Many for me for the African-American community. There are several make up artist whose careers I’ve nurtured who want to just raise their hand and make a comment about how I nurtured them and how they’ve gone on to become department heads and how they run their business it’s gonna be a very inclusive interactive instruction.

Makeup artist and designer Nikoletta Skarlatos first fell in love with her art form as a child in Greece. Since then, she has collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers, top design houses and internationally renowned photographers.

Skarlatos applies her passion and knowledge in the design and creation of richly cinematic characters.

Skarlatos’ diverse body of work can be seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest : At World’s End, Miami Vice, The Soloist, Immortals, The Hunger Games Series, Flight, Solace, Free State Of Jones, The Perfect Guy, Spiderman, Blue, Future Man, Lee Daniel’s Star, and the Netflix film, Nappily Ever After.

She has been named the Global Beauty Director for Julie Hewett from 2009-2019. She has collaborated with the House of Chanel and the Estee Lauder Corporation as makeup artist, makeup designer and product developer.

In addition to recent film work, Skarlatos’ makeup design can be seen in major marketing campaigns and on the pages of Interview, BlackBook, In Style, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Elle, Ebony and Vanity Fair.

Skarlatos lectures globally about biodynamic skin care and nontoxic alternatives in the makeup industry. She was the Hollywood Makeup Guild speaker for the Huffington Post’s “Greening of Hollywood: Guild by Guild” in 2009, and was honored as the special guest of Conexa Beauty at Art by Avon International in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2011 where she performed as educator, judge, and motivational speaker. She was honoured to be guest speaker at the prestigious Cal-A-Vie Spa in Januaryof 2017, lecturing on beauty, makeup, and rejuvenation and will lecture in July 2019 at Cal-A-Vie again.

Skarlatos was awarded the prestigious PMAC Film Maqui Award for 2018, truly an honour.

She was nominated for Saturn award for Best Makeup for the epic film “Immortals”, She was nominated for Best Period and Character Makeup for the Makeup and Hiarstyling guild awards 2015 for th Mockingjay Part 1. She was nominated for Best Special Effects makeup for the Makeup and Hairstyling guild awards 2014 for Catching Fire

Nikoletta has devoted her career to education , creativity and fraternity amongst the global makeup community. Her relationship with Atlanta and it’s community of artists is and has been a joy since she first arrived in 2010 for FLIGHT.