Ashley Benatar
Makeup Artist
(347) 589-4971
makeupxxashley@hotmail.com

Qualifications
A makeup Artist with extensive training in the following areas: Beauty Makeup, Character Makeup, and Special Makeup Effects. Skills include but are not limited to custom blending foundations, Airbrush application, corrective beauty techniques, fashion beauty techniques, natural beauty techniques, makeup design, injury simulation, cadaver simulation, burns, cuts, bruises, prosthetic application and fabrication, bald cap application, life casting (teeth, body parts, full and half body), mold prep, mold making (stone, silicone, fiberglass), appliance casting and molding, seaming, patching, and foam latex injection.

Experience
FILM
Feature
2008 "Gerald" Director-Marc Clebanoff, Position-Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2007 “Break” Director- Marc Clebanoff, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2007 “Autopsy” Director- Adam Girash, Position- Assistant Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2006 “The Pink Conspiracy” Director- , Position- Additional Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2006 “Ktown Super Frog” Director- Robert Logevall, Position- Additional Makeup FX
2006 “Killer Pad” Director- Robert Englund, Position- Almost Human Makeup EFX Lab Technician
2006 “Ascension Day” Director- , Position- Assistant Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2004 “Torte Bluma” Director- , Position- Assistant Makeup Artist (Character)
2004 “ East Broadway” Director- B.D. Wong, Position- Assistant Makeup Artist (Beauty)

Short
2007 “The Fortune Teller” Director- Marc Clebanoff, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty)

Student
2005 “Affinity” Director- Daniel Braverman, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2004 “Illusion” Director- Carlos Rosario, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)
2004 “Sweet Escape” Director- Jodain Massad, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & FX)

TELEVISION
2007 “I Love NY” Season 2, Position- Cast Makeup/Assistant Makeup Artist (Beauty)
2006 “BET Awards 2006” (Assistant to Ms. Sharon Gault,) Red Carpet touch-ups for Fantasia Barino
2005 “Martha Stewart Live” 2005 Halloween Special, Assistant to Ms. Tobi Britton (FX)

MUSIC VIDEO
2007 William Tell, “Fairfax”, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & Men’s Grooming)
2006 RDB, “Tu Amor”, Position- Assistant Makeup Artist (Beauty)
2006 Gnarls Barkley “Smiley Faces”, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Men’s Grooming & FX)
2006 Paula Deanda Ft. Baby Bash “Doing Too Much”, Position- Assistant Makeup Artist (Beauty & Men’s Grooming)
2005 The Hold Steady “Your Little Hoodrat Friend”, Position- Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & Men’s
Grooming)

RUNWAY
2007 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: Sheri Bodell Spring 2007, Assistant to Ms. Sharon Gault
2006 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: Sheri Bodell Fall 2006, Assistant to Ms. Sharon Gault
2005 Skitzophrenic @ Hotel Pennsylvania: Damien Blaze, Alican/Holly, Johnny Handsome, Ladu,
Spring 2005, Makeup Shop Team Member

COMMERCIALS
2005 Gordon Ramsay Promo Spot for BBC America, Key Makeup Artist (Men’s Grooming)
2005 Sports Illustrated Infomercial, Key Makeup Artist (Beauty & Men’s Grooming)

Celebrities/Recording Artists
Michael Madsen, Robert Patrick, Chad Everett, Charles Durning, David Carradine, Robert Lasardo, Michael Bowen, Janette Goldstien, Margaret Cho, B.D. Wong, Gale Harold, Gordon Ramsay, Alicia Braga, Gnarles Barkley, The Hold Steady, William Tell, Fantasia Barino, Paula DeAnda, Baby Bash

Photographers
Andrew Matusik, Stewart Price, Michael Creagh, Scott Miller

Additional Experience
March - July 2006 Almost Human Makeup EFX –position Lab Technician
Duties included: life casting, mold making and prep (for silicone stone and fiberglass molds), foam running, appliance casting and molding, seaming and patching, painting, general cleaning and organizing of the shop, and on set assistance.
2004-2005 The Makeup Shop –position: Manager
Duties included: running the retail part of the facility, makeup applications, mini makeup lessons off site freelance work

Education
Makeup Designory Burbank- Special Makeup Effects course
Tobi Britton’s Makeup And Airbrush Bootcamp- Bootcamp parts 1 and 2, Bridal, Airbrush Bootcamp

Additional Training
In addition to taking various workshops, I have also assisted under well respected Makeup Artists, such
as Michael Mills, Tobi Britton, Sharon Gault, Gary Tunnicliffe, and Robert Hall.