Jen Winston

Nov 9, 2023 | clubcurran.com | Michael Love Michael |Jen Winston

An employee instructs us to wait under a chandelier in chartreuse chairs, so we sit, looking at our phones until someone grants us entry to the bridal salon. “I doubt anything here will work,” I say. “Too expensive, too classic, too femme.” I’m nervous-talking, unsure where this rush of anxiety came from. “Just enjoy it,” my friends reply, speaking softly, the way they always do when I need to calm down.

Nov 9, 2023 | clubcurran.com | Jen Winston |Laurel Charleston

It’s not a blank sheet of paper void of humanity, context and perspective  – each canvas represents an identity, a culture, and years of lived experience. Now as a professional makeup artist,  it is my job to create makeup that is always an extension of my canvas; to tap into the fantasy, dreams, expression of that unique person and to realize it. But for me to be able to do that today as an out and proud queer, trans woman, I had to go through my own process of discovery eight years ago.

Aug 24, 2023 | simonepaget.substack.com | Simone Paget |Jen Winston

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