"The Scenestar Dozen" is where we feature fascinating culture cultivators. Meet L.A. woman and makeup artist Stephanie Smith. Read more about her below!
What is the best and worst thing about your profession?
I love getting to work with different photographers and directors - it’s inspiring to be around artists that have really mastered their craft.
The not so great parts of my job are fairly trivial. This job requires early call times and long long days; 12 to 14 hours of work sometimes with little to no breaks. I’m aware that that formula generally applies to most successful people so I am grateful to be doing something I truly enjoy doing under those circumstances.
Where is your favorite place to eat in LA?
My house. I love cooking and tend to be on the healthier side of the aisle. My friends affectionately call my apartment “Cafe Stephanie.” My dad was incredible in the kitchen and I spent my life standing by him absorbing all of his culinary skills. I also worked in restaurants as a teenager and often opted for jobs in the kitchen, close to the chef. There is nothing like a home cooked meal and frankly, I’d rather eat at home than anywhere else on any given day.
But, I will say - I’m obsessed with the curry at Blossom Vietnamese in Silver Lake. It’s the best curry on the planet. Even better than mine. ;)
What was the last good book you read that you would recommend to anyone?I ping-pong between fiction and non-fiction so depending on what mood I’m In dictates what I read. I’m always reading about 4-5 books at any given time. Currently, I’m finishing Ottessa Moshfegh’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” and I’m in the middle of Paul Stamets’ “Mycelium Running.” The other two I’m currently chipping away at are Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” and a book about painting techniques which right now I cannot recall the title of. I picked it up at the Getty Museum shop last week.
Have you ever seen a work of art that stopped you in your tracks?
All the time. I studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as a printmaking and painting major so I spend a large amount of free time in museums. The last piece that stopped me in my tracks was a Degas painting at the Getty Museum - he’s one hundred percent, my favorite painter - he’s a master of eccentric composition. He was doing something radical in his time - shifting the art world in a way that has impacted so many other painters that have come after him. Unfortunately, I don’t recall the title of the piece but it is my current screen saver on my phone.
I was also very moved by the Sally Mann photography exhibit at the Getty (showing now). To see fine art, large format photography, knowing each frame was labored over meticulously, demands a different level of appreciation than that of modern photographers who are able to shoot 200 frames to get the one perfect image they are trying to capture.
What is the most remarkable movie you’ve ever seen?Name your pop-culture guilty pleasure?
What is the most underrated album you’ve heard and what about it is special
Who is the best rockstar who ever lived?
David Bowie. Is there really anyone else?
Where is one place that someone can visit in LA for free that is a must-experience?
Stephanie Smith is a make-up artist based in Los Angeles with a lot of cool campaigns under her belt. You can check a lot of them out on her Instagram page at instagram.com/stephanienicolesmith or on her website: www.stephanienicolesmith.com (She has also been in a few bands, but we'll let you ask her about that!)
As their Mother is asleep PINGU and Pinga take the record player outside and try to find a way to make it work mains electricity. But, in the end it is only when he sees his father check the car battery that PINGU comes up with solution. When Mother awakes she is thrilled to hear the music outside but only PINGU and Pinga know what is making it possible.
Posted by: Pesulap | May 15, 2021 at 04:21 AM