Local artist recognized in Vogue Magazine
Madeline Murray
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) – A local makeup artist from Yuma was recognized in Vogue Magazine.
Olivia Esperanza, a local makeup artist, was inspired to do makeup after many people started to compliment her work.
“In 2013, I would say I got into makeup school, cosmetology school, and I came out literally just doing makeup, I started doing creative makeup and it kind of just went from there,” says Esperanza.
Esperanza was invited to the Santa Fe Indian Market fashion Week in New Mexico where her makeup was featured.
She says when she got home she saw the Indian Market Fashion Week was published in Vogue. That’s when she noticed her work in the magazine.
Esperanza shares how she feels seeing her hard work pay off saying, “It’s just like I don’t know…it’s just cool to me, just like where I came from and where I am now, it’s just really crazy to me.”
Esperanza provided advice for local makeup artists in Yuma wanting to make it in the industry.
“Keep trying, like the way I got into it, like finding, you know just going onto Instagram, and you know seeing fashion shows and applying for it. You’re able to get in there, anyone can do it.”
She says anything you put your mind to you can accomplish.
“If you dream it, manifest it, everything like, this came out of nowhere, and I just did not expect it, and it really motivated me to do it a lot more,” says Esperanza.
Esperanza hopes to eventually make it to New York Fashion Week or Fashion Week in Milan.