{"id":4546,"date":"2012-10-02T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2012-10-04T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:42:25","slug":"key-makeup-artist-valerie-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"Key Makeup Artist Valerie Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Growing up we all had role models. Valerie Garcia\u2019s was the art of special effects and at an early age she was determined to become a monster maker and today she takes great pride in her work and rightfully so. It takes a lot of time and effort along with having an artistic talent to succeed as a SFX Makeup Artist. Valerie was able to practice her skill by having some fun with her siblings and parents as you\u2019ll see. On her way to becoming a Key Makeup Artist she\u2019s also been an actress in many Asylum films along with a Production Coordinator, Special Effects Makeup, Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director amongst other titles.\u00a0 Her most current makeup talents can be seen in \u2018Shark Week\u2019 in which she also stars in and in Jared Cohn\u2019s \u2018Hold Your Breath\u2019.<\/p>\n

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What encouraged you to become a Makeup Artist?<\/p>\n

VALERIE: <\/strong>Growing up I discovered a love for horror movies like “Return of the Living Dead”, “Evil Dead”, Army of Darkness”,” Bram Strokers Dracula”etc. and of course loving all the original Universal Monsters. as well as a love for TV shows like “The Munsters” (I could go one for days listing the horror genre films I love) I loved the monsters and ghouls that were in all these films and when I learned that there was an actual job occupation to where people got paid to make monsters and gore for a living I was hooked! I began researching people like Rick Baker and Jack Pierce , and through that all I knew is I wanted to be a monster maker, I wanted to be a SFX artist.Now becoming a Makeup artist for beauty that was something I never thought I\u2019d do. I would do my own makeup growing up and then girlfriends of mine would ask me to do theirs. Then some people that knew friends of mine were offering me money to do their makeup for whatever event it was they were going to. Mind you, all of that was only during high school with no real training at all. Then shortly after graduation, and getting fed up with regular college and my dull grocery store job, I figured why not go to makeup school and learn to do makeup as a profession.The end result, I get to make people pretty and gory for a living and love it!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sure it\u2019s challenging, but do you have fun making someone gory?<\/p>\n

VALERIE: