Noisy airbrush compressors drove Silva to invent the Beautyblender for TV sets
Rea Ann Silva · Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva · Dec 19, 2022 · at 24:00
Beautyblender founder Rea Ann Silva describes the practical constraints that prevented makeup artists from using airbrush equipment for touch-ups between television takes.
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“So although airbrushing was a wonderful technique to make makeup look natural in high definition, it's not a practical set tool. So in the morning in my trailer on the back lot of Paramount, I can be Spraying people in my trailer, my music is on, we're chit-chatting and laughing, getting ready for the day, but the minute I walk on set and they're rolling sound, I can't turn my compressor on.”
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