Hollywood Belle: Vanity Village in 1943 Algeria

I met Lorena on the set of "No Time For Holiday" -- I came on as Key Make-up Artist (a big XoXo for Stacie Munoz, a frequent employer of mine, her productions are always a treat to be on :) and Lorena was the hair stylist. After spending many years in a salon environment, it was Lorena's first on-set experience, and we made quite the team together. We decided to apply for productions together, and appropriately named ourselves Vanity Village.

In November of 2009, Lorena and I joined the crew of "Fortress" (trailer)-- a WWII film with a cast of crew of ALL men, what a delight being the only two women on-set. This was my first feature as Department Head, so naturally I was excited. We arrive on-set the first day in Aqua Dulce, about 45 miles NE of Los Angeles. Julian, our producer, was instantly our favorite, quite the comedic relief. We spent four days and one freezing night in the middle of nowhere. Week two and three were luckily in a warehouse in North Hollywood. The cast was very unique, all of them blossoming with talent. Any one of them could explode into Hollywood stardom at any moment, with some of them already well-known from childhood roles.

Vanity Village with Bug Hall, bringing him back to his Alfalfa days

Actor Tim Hade

I'm blogging about this particular project because it has been my favorite project I have worked on so far in my year and a half professional make-up career (and I just might be giving it some much deserved PR -- because who am I if I'm not a publicist?!). Some of these boys I'm sure I will remain life-long friends with and I hope to see them on the cover of US Weekly one day, hopefully not for something ridiculous -- unless it's Julian, then it's completely understood if it's total ridiculousness.