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Rea Ann Silva

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“Did no one tell me that they don't get taught that. See, this is where there's that separation between fashion makeup, TV film. You know, there's, and these are the kind of like proprietary trade secrets that make up artists keep, that make themselves feel different from that person over there and that person over there or whatever, right? So basically, what we're talking, and if you were ever to go to a makeup school, a school of makeup for film and television, you would have been classically taught to take that wedge and take some scissors and bevel the edges so that there's no straight lines of demarcation.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the thing about that shape, right? First of all, we never use the wedge just like you get it out of the package. Makeup artists always cut and bevel the sharp edge.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want to get to the session of how you kind of came up with this idea in a moment. But just so I understand, and for people who don't wear makeup, I'm going to try and explain my experience, which was in 2003, I went into television for a few years as a TV reporter, and I was taught how to apply makeup, and I was brought to a department store, and I bought a bunch of, they bought me a bunch of Mac makeup. And I remember there was a concealer and there was powder, and I can't remember what else. There was a brush in there, but there was also a triangle, sponge. And that was what I used to put the concealer under my eyes and anywhere I had, you know, alongside my nose. And I was taught how to do this. I gotta be honest, I got pretty good. But it was this triangular sponge, right?”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, how do you do touch ups? How do you maintain that airbrush finish when you can't turn your airbrusher on, but you have to do touch-ups in between takes? What ended up happening was you were still hand applying the makeup because you were touching up the makeup with your brushes and the old way. That we had always been applying makeup”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally spraying it with an air It was used for many, many years prior to beauty makeup in special effects. And it creates a seamless look of makeup. Like there's no line of demarcation like what you were talking about a few minutes ago. So although airbrushing was a wonderful technique To make makeup look natural in high definition, it's not a practical set tool. So in the morning in my trailer, on the back lot of Paramount, I can be spraying people in my trailer. My music is on, we're chit-chatting and laughing, getting ready for the day. But the minute I walk on set and they're rolling sound, I can't turn my compressor on.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Well, you have these people that either look like they were wearing a shit ton of makeup or people that just look terrible. Like they just didn't do anything. So, how did you find that balance, right? So one of the skill sets that I taught myself during this career of mine was to airbrush makeup. And airbrushing makeup is the art of spraying makeup onto a face. And you do it.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That recognition that you have was the singular reason why I was hired to do the show Girlfriends where I created beauty blender. So, makeup's how we talked about it a few minutes ago early on for film. Were consistency wise different, more opaque, more pink based, more creamy, and you would use a lot of powder to powder them down, right? Because literally you were creating like a mask on someone's face because you wanted to recreate the canvas, right? When you use that technique in high definition, it does exactly what you said. You just see that thing, but like crazy looking makeup, right?”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it was crazy when I think about it now. But, you know, at the time, I was in it, man. I loved it so much. And it was like almost like a game to me to be able to see how much I could do. Yeah, I mean, the sheer amount of work and my agents were all about it. They were like, okay, you think you can do it? Okay, bet. Let's make that commission. Come on. Let's do it. How many assistants you need? Okay, let's do it.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but I was working all the time. I had spent a lot of time away from America, you know, production is not like being a CEO. Tell you when to eat, you show up when you show up, and you rap, and they say rap. So, you know, sometimes it was a 12-hour, 14, 16, 18. Sometimes I had jobs that were almost 24 hours. It was exhausting.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did Eve. I did Brandy. I worked with Whitney Houston, Tony Braxton. I worked with Sean Diddy Combs for about 12 years and all of his artists. I did Faith Evans. I mean,”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's when women and consumers and people that used makeup themselves were able to kind of understand a little more about color matching and being able to have Colors that actually look like their skin.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. So if you think about the history of makeup, makeup artists were basically men for the most part and hairdressers were women, and it's reflected in the pay rates. The makeups that were designed by men back in the day and the heavier makeups when you go back and you look at black and white silver screen makeup all the way to like say the 70s or 80s, right, when you're talking about Bobby Brown. Those makeups had all a red or pink cast to them. And that's why there wasn't a lot of great darker makeups. However, what Bobby did, which was what was so genius with her, is that she started this trend of having makeup look natural by using yellow-toned makeup. So all of her formulations were based in yellow tone.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I did have a kit and I did purchase makeup according to the job. So I eventually accumulated what I call a dead body worth of makeup. I mean, I would drag around, you know, 80 pounds, 90 pounds of makeup with me everywhere. Before it was very almost like the businesses were very separate, the makeups were very different according to the medium you were working in.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and Woody Johnston, dear friend of mine, was her road manager at the time, and he was like, well, Rhianna, I'm going to give you a chance because she's looking for someone. And we don't have a lot of money. And would you do it? I said, I'll do it for free, Woody. You know, just to get in. Then I started working doing some artists at Motown. I did the good girls. And I did a ton, a ton of musical artists at Motown, people that you wouldn't know because they come and go. But they were churning out artists and developing artists like mad, people that would need photo shoots, album cover shoots, press shoots. I mean, eventually over a very fast time, over a couple years, my skill set increased greatly. I mean, listen, I did the California love video with Tupac and Dr. Dre where it was all Mad Max.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I find it so hard for young people now because nobody ever gets that eye to eye You know, kind of connection with people anymore. You don't really get to know anything about a person other than whatever is, you know, in front of you on your computer. But I would walk in.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you're right, and if you think about the time we were in early to mid 80s, it was the MTV revolution. And you're absolutely right, there are unions for makeup artists and literally for anybody who works behind the scenes. However, there are non-union projects that go on as well. And it was the MTV revolution, like I was saying. And I started to understand through my research, you know, where these music videos were getting made, where the production houses were, what their names were. And I'm kind of bold. I would just walk in and say, hey, I'm a makeup artist. Can I talk to the head of production or somebody there? I'm looking for work. I just want to leave my resume if you guys ever need anybody. These were the days when you walked in somewhere, you didn't do it online, which.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I had Erica. Birth to her when I were both October babies and she was born in October, so I had just turned 25. So what ended up happening was, yeah, I had to figure out what I was going to do because I didn't think he was going to support me at all. And so at this point, I had continued to work doing makeup at a retail level. And this is when I kind of like put it into like turbo and like, okay, I need to figure out how to get into production.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, we started dating. You know, look, he's an athlete, right? I mean There is no shortage of women around, let's say that. But we started dating and one year went by, two years went by, three years went by, and we were still dating. You know, we actually got engaged. And I ended up getting pregnant. He asked me to marry him, you know, brought me on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and I thought, okay, I'm going to be an NFL wife and a mom.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And, all right, so you meet this guy who was already pretty well known in LA and would, of course, for people who know, Eric Tigerson's Hall of Fame Fall of Fame or running back. And what you guys start dating, he kind of became a couple.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Super freak. And the thing about Rick is everybody knows he's wild, right? We weren't wild. So the way we got introduced to Eric was, well, I got introduced to Eric was Mr. Just Say No to Drugs. I want to introduce you to Mrs. No Say No to Drugs. This is Rianne. I think you guys are going to get along just great. And we just sat and talked.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I go out one night with my cousin to this place called El Pravado, which was the second floor of Carlos and Charlie's on Sunset Boulevard on a Monday night. So I'm hanging out and I'm meeting a lot of different people in LA. One of the people that I met, this is going to sound crazy, but it was Rick James. I met Rick James and Rick James.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love this guy so much, and we're still friends to this day. It just wasn't for me going to work because I did want to have a career. I didn't know what that was going to be. But in my heart and soul, my intuition told me, look, you have more to do than go to Saudi Arabia and have a bunch of kids and be the one he's leaving in Saudi Arabia when he goes to Europe and parties. You know, it's like,”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Guy, what's going on? They're like, oh my god, you go to Saudi Arabia, we're never going to see you again. What are you doing?”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My parents were freaking out. They knew nothing about Saudi Arabia. And they were like, What are you doing here in London?”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was living my life. I wasn't working. I had a boyfriend who supported me. And we were going to get married. And I was going to move to Saudi Arabia.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But then that didn't work out. So now fast forward to coming back to America where I had been gone for a couple years. I lived in London. I had a flat in London. What came back? What were you doing there?”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and, you know, living in Newport Beach at that time, too, you have to remember, I'm not a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, yuppy girl. So I can only imagine when they saw me, and I heard this over and over again, you know, they'd be like, where are you from? They would try to speak. Arabic to me or Persian. I'm like, no, I'm Mexican. And they'd be like, wait, you're Mexican. You look like one of us. So I think. That was their initial attraction to me was like, there's somebody that looks like us, you know? I actually ended up meeting somebody that I fell in love with. And I thought I was going to get married and move to Saudi Arabia and live happily ever after with this person. So I kind of didn't think about fashion design anymore.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just hanging out. It was the craziest thing. So I don't know, but if you recall in The early 80s, late seventies, the US had started to do a lot of business with Saudi Arabia. And a lot of the royal family and politicians and the important people were sending their kids, mainly their sons, to the United States, to go to college. Right. And socially, I had met this one guy. And it wasn't, he wasn't like anybody I dated or anything. But he would invite a group of friends to come to Europe and he paid for everything.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think we're talking somewhere, this is somewhere in the early 1980s at this point. And I guess you decide to leave school to leave the Fashion Institute so you could concentrate on makeup. But I guess around this time you also ended up going to London and spending time there for a while. How did that happen?”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I met this woman who was a makeup artist. She lived in the building. She lived in West Hollywood. And so it was very interesting because I got to see two slices of life when it comes to makeup artistry. You can work retail or you can be lucky enough to live in Los Angeles where you can be in production. So I was able to see, okay, this girl that I met, she goes on set and she works and she does makeup. And as my friendship went on with my friend who was the makeup artist and I met other makeup artists, I started to focus my attention to moving in that direction because their life seemed really exciting. They were working with. All kinds of different producers, different jobs, celebrities. And I thought, and they were making great money. I was like, wow, that's, you know, that's how I actually got the bug or the interest in makeup.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Most people just like put their hand up and say, nope, thank you, no, no, no. So, you know, I quickly realized like this is really a horrible job because I'm not making any friends. I'm walking around on high heels all day, making minimum wage. I'm sick to my stomach at the end of the day smelling this perfume. But I noticed that the girls in the cosmetic counters, you know, they were laughing and people loved them because there was this positive experience going on with the consumer. They were selling product, which meant they were making commissions and more money. And they loved their job. I was like, that is what I need to be doing. I don't need to be spraying people with perfume. I need to somehow find my way onto the cosmetic floor and long story short, you know, fake it till you make it. I convinced someone to hire me in the department store. So I got a little bit of experience.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Remember bullets. I grew up in California downtown. Anyway, I got a job as a perfume model. They dress you up and they give you a bottle of perfume and you spray people. But spraying people with perfume is a great way to live a solitary life because nobody wants you to spray them with perfume.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think she started thinking about what is she gonna do? She can't just get married and have kids. Like, you know, what is she going to do? Because my mom was very kind of, I think, She wished she had more opportunity. So she was the one that found FIDM, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. And my mom was a very fashionable person. And I think that's part of the reason why she worked. Her and her sisters like to shop. So they liked fashion. She saw that I enjoyed fashion too, and I was also a sketcher. Like I like to draw a little bit. And I think she put those things together and then, you know, found out about the school. And yeah, she marched me down there one day. We signed up and she took a loan out, you know, to afford for me to go to that school. And that's where I went for a couple years.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really didn't have a direction. My dad was a mechanic, an auto mechanic. He was like, The fawns, you know, in like happy days, like he slicked his hair back, he raced motorcycles, he raced boats, he raced cars, he ended up being a mechanic. He came from very humble, you know, very humble background. And the same with my mom. My mom was a waitress. And, you know, I think they were kind of of the mindset that having a trade.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“NFL Hall of Fameer Eric Dickerson, a Saudi prince, a cameo from Rick James, and years of struggle as a single mother. Ranselva grew up in a working class family in Southern California in the nineteen sixties and seventies, and as a teenager, she didn't really have any serious ambitions.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I cold called them, and I said, My name is Rianne, and I'm a makeup artist. And I have an idea. And they were like, I could just, I could hear the sigh on the other end of the phone. You know, and she was trying to basically get off the phone with me, and I, you know, I said to her, I said, well, who designs your makeup sponges? You never had a makeup artist help you design a tool to apply makeup for your companies? And she said, well, now actually we never have. And I said, okay, so then maybe you want to listen to me. Maybe you want to hear my idea.”
2022-12-19 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT