"Blush Ballet" Ilde Goncalves Beauty Educator Makeup Artist Fashionista Mindful Artist Podcast S2E22 Andrew Velázquez

ilde Goncalves Born in Venezuela from Portuguese parents, ilde grew up traveling between the two continents and the two cultures.  He was influenced by fashion at early age as his mom worked as seamstress and later managed a menswear clothing factory where ilde had his first job assisting his mother and starts experimenting creating clothes and playing with colors, textures and shapes.  His early love for creating garments led him to attend  Fashion School Brivil in Caracas  while studding classical ballet and modern dance at  Teatro Teresa Carreno at the same time. Here he meets and works with choreographer Vicente Nebreda, one of the most influential latin neo-classicle choreographer who asked ilde to be part of his company and  dances professionally with  Ballet Nacional de Caracas for a few years.   When he was getting ready for the Ballet shows, ilde discovers that his other big passion and talent is makeup.  In 2001 he moves to Miami Beach where he does makeup and costumes for a few Entertaiment companies.  in 2005 he starts his  makeup career with Sephora as a Beauty consultant where he finishes learning all the different facets of the Beauty World.  A few years later he becomes an important part of the Sephora Pro Team, and its with this team that he becomes an ambassador for the brand, is part of all the major Marketing events, makeup educator and mentor for other artists within the Beauty Retailer.  As a Sephora Pro Lead ilde worked on product development, coaching and developing other artists, creating makeup for Sephora Campaigns, Makeup Key artist for shows during NYFW, ParisFW and MiamiFW.   He also played an important role training and inspiring artists while opening the firsts Sephora stores in Mexico and Brazil. At the moment ilde is being represented by a two makeup agencies, working with celebrities, doing hair&makeup  for campaigns and Look-books  for fashion brands, helping launch Beauty brands in LATAM (Gucci Beauty & Kylie Cosmetics)  and working on his own Photography and Swimwear brand ilde Swimwear.  “ Beauty is Everywhere ” http://www.ildegoncalves.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ildegoncalves Make sure to subscribe to my youtube channel and turn on notifications to be the first to watch new episodes here: https://linktr.ee/mindfulartistpodcast https://youtube.com/andrewvelazquez   You can also book a hair/makeup/brow service or mentorship lesson with me here and remote education is an option too: https://andrewvelazquez.com   Below are my products  and feel free to use my promo codes for additional discounts and free shipping:   Mí Corazón Makeup Palette, Book and Fan! https://amoresartearteesamorpresale.square.site   Make sure you are following me on all of my social media handles in order to be updated on any giveaways, contests and private events!   IG: https://www.instagram.com/andrewvelazquez_/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/andrewvelazquezcom TW: https://twitter.com/andrewvelazcom TK: https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewvelazquez_ LT: https://linktr.ee/andrewvelazquez Email me for any questions and inquiries here please. Stay safe! Email: [email protected]