Ellis Faas

Ellis Faas

http://www.ellisfaas.com/brand/about/

Ellis Faas was born and raised in the Netherlands in 1962 and always had a keen interest in fashion and her own opinion on what she thought worked.
Ellis first started out her career as a photographer once she left school and often used herself as her own model and took images of herself made up in makeup which was where she began to realise her true passion was in the makeup field and soon said goodbye to photography.

Ellis went to Paris and attended a course in makeup and special effects at the Christian Chauveau's Technical School of Artistic Makeup which was the first key step she took into becoming a makeup artist.

Soon after this Ellis made her travels to London where her career soon took off and she became very successful, she used her skills with special effects for medical inserts and also worked on various music video's of that time. 

In 1999 Ellis's career took off once again when she was approached by the world renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino to work with him on a L'Uomo Vogue shoot, and soon after this she was accompanying Mario across the globe to places such as Paris, New York, LA and London. This helped act a platform for when Ellis had a chance meeting with fashion editor Emmanuelle Alt who introduced her to the world famous head designer and creative director for Chanel and Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld, to which became the turning point for Ellis and she was then managing a team of makeup artist's backstage at the Chanel and Fendi fashion shows.

Here are some examples of who Ellis Faas has worked with throughout her career;

Chanel

Fendi

Giorgio Armani

Diesel

Lanvin

Yves Saint-Laurent

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Vogue

Harpers Bazaar

Dazed & Confused

http://www.ellisfaas.com/brand/about/

Ellis was also asked to create a makeup line for L'oreal's new skincare brand which turned out to be 'Biotherm' which I have personally heard a lot about on youtube and other bloggers seem to recommend it, however, her contract with L'oreal came to a close in 2007 and she went on to launch her own cosmetic brand- 'ELLIS FAAS'

Looking at Ellis's portfolio work which is posted on her website there is something very inspiring about it as its quite edgy and fresh but also seems to draw from something very British or European with 1970's/1980's concepts.

http://www.ellisfaas.com/brand/portfolio/

Ellis Faas- Identity Revealed

For the short film clip Sharon gave us to have a look at and give a short review on I personally think the makeup that Ellis has created is very beautiful but portrays an animalistic theme throughout, it has glamour but yet still keeps in with traditional themes. It seems that she has taken inspiration from different cultures and elements from around the world and shows emotions and feelings in a dignified way.