Kevyn Aucoin

Kevin Acoin was a Texas born make-up artist who was well known for catering to the laywoman's need to feel beautiful. Extolling the virtue that every woman was beautiful within, he was, until his death in 2002 (from a brain hemmorage,) one of the most well-paid celebrity make-up artists in history.

A published author ("Making Faces" and "The Art of Make-Up") he was fond of taking celebrities (and various other women including his mother) and using makeup and costume to make them look like other celebrities, or like other people entirely. (For example, in one book he made-up singer Tori Amos to look like Mary Queen of Scotts; in another, he turned actress Hilary Swank into Raquel Welch.)