Vogue speaks to the celebrity makeup artist about how to make it in the industry and what it’s like working with the pop superstar.
Meet Michael Anthony, Ariana Grande’s Go-To Makeup Artist
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in various places across the U.S. as the child of army officers, Michael Anthony has always had a flair for the creative. Playing around with makeup from the age of six, he would often use whatever he found lying around the bathroom and pretend to be at the spa. Eventually he began to create looks for his sisters, friends, and “anybody who would sit still and trust me,” he says. Honing his craft at MAC Cosmetics, he moved to New York where he assisted industry legends Pat McGrath, Diane Kendal and Mark Carrasquillo.
Since then, Anthony has made a name for himself as the go-to celebrity makeup artist, regularly collaborating with Katy Perry, Paris Hilton and Ariana Grande. As the mastermind behind Grande’s signature pastel-hued, shimmering looks, he transformed the Thank U, Next singer into a space-age “fembot” for her 34+35 music video in 2020, teaming a graphic, white, winged eyeliner with a subtle red lip and an all-round supernatural shine in one scene, and a silver circuit around the eyes with a metallic-mauve lip in another.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Tish Weinstock
