Viola Nicholson is a makeup artist/innovator, who loves the beauty-fashion industry. She grew up surrounded around beautiful women, and well dressed men. With that she always had a passion for fashion and makeup.
As a little girl she always remember her parents never leaving out the house very well groomed taking the family to school, church, or any outings. Her father now deceased, mother to this day is a diva and will not have any excuses on showing any signs of lacking on her appearance, courage and wisdom. Viola is the eighth child out of nine children, and very blessed that she came from a strong, supportive, loving family. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, left at a early age then moved to Oregon, Viola was always known as a trendsetter growing up and kept her following.
Viola got her first start into makeup professionally 21,while being a Fashion/Print Model. She always had her mothers makeup bag for every shoot at that time the artists weren’t educated on women of color. She always had to do her own makeup, A photographer notice her craft and told her to seek it professionally. She did and can recall her first job behind a makeup counter, and with her style, smile and warmth her reputation grew and her clientele.
She's worked for Fashion Fair, Esteelauder, Prescriptives, MAC, Christian Dior, and Bobbi Brown. She freelanced also throughout her career, and will always give a special thanks to Reggie Wells for allowing her to share her vision on what the industry is missing (A Day Of Beauty With Reggie Wells) and being her mentor, Sam Fine (A Fine Day Of Beauty,With Sam Fine) for taking the time out on educating her and the invite to Atlanta for his seminar. She returned back to work with her Mentors and Created Events For All To Enjoy. Get Inspired and pursue their Goals..And with that vision she Developed Line of Cosmetic brushes..Brushes by Viola..
Viola's goal is to bring any image to a different level in life, whether you are a Politician, Musician, Teacher, Parent, Stylist, Designer, Writer, Chef any walk of life she can bring out the best in you. Viola is currently working on her Non For Profit for the male youth and is continuing being a mentor for other great aspiring artists.
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