Masters Makeup Artist Margaret Kimura was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Being of a Japanese heritage seemed at first a stumbling block. In her insightful book, “Asian Beauty”, she reveals, “Beauty is a subjective notion at best, but that doesn’t seem to matter when you’re an Asian-American teenager growing up in Southern California, where beauty is synonymous with long blond hair and blue eyes. Finding out where I fit into the beauty equation twenty years ago was difficult and painful at best. Yet from this conflict, she pushed on and taught herself about the world of cosmetics. ” I’ve never set limits for myself. I’m self-taught, so I’ve always made my own rules instead of following someone else’s. Maybe it’s because I had to deal with issues of beauty when I was a teenager, and so I learned very early how to bring out the best in everyone I work with.”.... Read more