Susie Gray Uphues, Dallas Makeup Artist

Hi, I'm Susie.  I am a professional Make-up Artist and Hair Stylist serving  Dallas, TX and surrounding areas. I have traveled all over the world doing makeup. After eight years as an in- house artist for Neiman Marcus, I left to become a "freelance artist". That was thirteen years ago.I was lucky back then to be  be personally trained by Bobbi Brown before leaving for London on tour for her . Bobbi taught me how to do "beautiful makeup" and recognized my talent as an artist. Hand chosen by Bobbi to be on the elite "beauty team", I was one of only 12 artists who traveled the globe as a "feature artist" and attended boot camp (an intense training session ) in New York.  

My ultimate goal was reached however when I signed with "The Campbell Agency" and began fashion and commercial shoots with local photographers as well as photographers from New York, Miami, LA, Nashville, etc. One of the highlights was getting my first Magazine cover for D and opening a National mag, Food and Wine, and seeing an ad I had worked on in Mexico! My greatest experience however was traveling to India to do makeup for a wedding in the beautiful town of Kashmir, only open to tourists for a couple of years due to the turmoil there. I felt like Aladdin on a magic carpet ride.

          I think the most  nervous I have ever been doing makeup was for my on wedding! I married the man of my dreams in Beaver Creek Co. and became Susie Gray Uphues in '05. After years of doing bridal makeup I was finally the Bride!! Being creative is sometimes  not always a blessing as I wore many designer hats for my wedding.I designed my own dress..did all the flowers and of course my makeup!! It was the happiest day of my life!..

           I think the most "fun" I've had as an artist was participating in the Body Art Ball (see pictures below) and having my work of "art" come to life.  My "Patriot " took 10 hours to paint and was the most detailed...my "Pimp" the next year and won The People's Choice award and an award for best design. A local producer made a film about the artists of the Body Art Ball and it played at the Magnolia during the Texas Film Festival that year.  After the film the producers saw that I was there and introduced me to the crowd who stood and clapped...that was pretty cool. I love what I do!

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       OK, this shoot was definitely one of my all time favorites...being a country girl myself...we shot at a very upscale property called Escondido... a new development in Horseshoe Bay (outside of Austin)...all I can say is "WOW"....Troy has an incredible eye and more than anything...a great sense of humor..We shot for four days and I know we got some incredible stuff, but one of the hardest things as a makeup artist is actually getting copies of what I do...especially when you work with an out of town photographer who is super busy...it's months before anything is available, and then when it is...they have already moved on and busy on another project....oh well...

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        This was an awesome project with Brittney  who had www.scottwomack.comthe longest legs I've ever seen!  Me, being only 5'1" could barely reach her for touch ups after she put on heels...she is 6' without them!! Brittney lives in Austin, works as a bartender and models on the side....can you imagine the tips she gets??? The Ad was for a Pearl Jewelry designer out of LA...If you look at the picture above and then at the top of my website  you will see her as though she is walking down a street..that was the art of Scott the photographer....gotta love that!!!

My next girl with Scott Womack is Megan..she is only 14 in these shots and looks it in the first couple...she looks like the girl next store..but a change of clothes and vamping out her makeup she's a completely different girl...

I just can't help it....I love these shots!!!! The skirt she was wearing was supposed to be tied in the back but for an added effect I tied it in the front to show off the six pack she has...WOW!!!! Very hot!!!

 Tell me these are not HOT!!! They are hot!!!

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               I love Cindy's style...she is so relaxed and easy to work with!! She just shoots, shoots, shoots....really fast and then says..."we got it!"  These are new faces at "Campbell" .. how cute are they?

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    This was such a cool shoot!!! We had thousands of dollars worth of clothing from Barney's and such incredible jewelry pieces from Mathew Trent...all those "little" things make such a difference in getting the look that you want...so many of my shoots they just want "pretty" makeup it's fun to be able to "play" and just do what I want...  look at the difference the lighting makes...and how you can make a photo look old and almost antique..we were going for a "40s" look...I think we got it!

This is the same girl...just different makeup...

How fun is this??? The hair was so crazy...everyone loved it...I really don't know how I came up with it...it just happened but was so fitting with what Tom was going for...whimsical, funny, ...I do wish we would have taken a few serious pictures because the makeup was beautiful...but I was so caught up in the moment I forgot to ask...

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This was such a fun shoot with Emily, an Abercrombie model...this is her wedding dress and we started as you can see in the pictures at the top, very soft and pretty...but being a model...she also was up for doing some more cutting edge stuff...like the biker boots and if you look close you can see her dog Elvis...

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