Aria Durso                                                      

                                                                            (615) 484-0968

Professional Makeup Artist                          

                                                                            (615) 662-2774

 

Contact: aria.darling@gmail.com

 

 

Qualifications and Skills:

 

Education and Training

     Joe Blasco Makeup Center East

     Orlando, Florida

 

Beauty Makeup

     Clean Beauty

     Glamour

     Fantasy

     High Fashion

     Period Makeup

     Kabuki and White Face        

     Body Painting

 

Special Effects Makeup

     Aging Makeup- Paint and Powder, Stretch and Stipple Latex Technique

     Bald cap- Making, Applying, Painting

     Hair work- Prep, Beards, Mustaches, Period Hair work

     Injury Simulation- Cuts and abrasions, Bruises, Burns, Compound Fractures,              

     Tissue Loss, Blood Tubing

     Character Makeup- Tattoos, Simulated Piercing

     Monster Makeup- Cotton, Wax, Latex Construction

 

Prosthetics

     Sculpting, Mold making, Snap and Multiple Piece Molds, Seaming, Foaming,     

     Painting, Application


Wigs

    Styling- Period, Opera, Powder

    Professional Cleaning and Up keep

    Hairpieces- Lace Beard and Mustache Creation



References:

 

Detour Studios

Haines City, FL

Prosthetics Lab Tech/ Assitant 

    

DEVIL’S SHOESTRING

Short film for Seabourne Pictures

Camera Ready Beauty Makeup for men and women

Blood and Sweat Simulation

www.seabournepictures.com

 

PILLOWBAG HORROR SERIES 2008

Hipfarm Productions

Beauty and Horror Makeup

Injury Simulation

Set Dressing

     

Cancer Queens! A Musical Revue!

Vanderbilt Cancer Prevention Center

Beauty/Stage Makeup

 

Performance Studios

Nashville, TN

Beauty, Fashion, Costume, Halloween Makeup

Wigs and Hair work

www.performancestudiosinc.com

 

Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Richard the Third 2009

Period Makeup/ Stage Makeup

www.nashvilleshakes.org

 

Photo Shoot(s) with Jeff Frazier Photography

Publicity Photos for Richard the Third

November/December 2008

Period Makeup/ Glamour Makeup

www.jefffrazier.com


Photo shoots with PE Photography 

Fashion Shoots- Fantasy and Injury Simulation

Nashville, TN


Harpeth Hall School Theatre Deaprtment

www.harpethall.org

Hair and Makeup for the Stage


Montgomery Bell Academy Theatre Department

Hair and Makeup for the Stage


Blair School of Music 

The Marriage of Figaro 

Fall Opera

*in production"

Opera and character makeup for the stage

Period Wig Design


Currently filming with several Watkins College of Art and Design productions:
Spring Break Bummer-Gore and Horror Genre
The Breader of Dire Events-Fantasy/Super Hero Genre