At the tender age of 22, most people would still be figuring out what their career could be. For Chelsea Uchenna , her meteoric rise has already been a decade in the making.
If you're not already familiar with the makeup artist's name, you'll certainly know her work. With a long list of clients including Doechii , Saweetie , Leomie Anderson , Bree Runway, Ayra Starr and Flo's Renée Downer, her aesthetic is 90s-meets-00s glam transforming the faces she paints into video vixens. Think seductive smokey eyes in chocolate browns and dark blacks, pencil-thin brows, shimmering eyeshadows, bright blush, and frosty lips in pinks, purples and bronzes.
Growing up in Ireland, Chelsea would watch her mum applying makeup – wanting to be just like her, but told to wait until she turned 18. "I was always artsy as a kid and was always painting and sketching, so it was only a matter of time before I fell into makeup," the MUA tells GLAMOUR. "I was around 11 or 12 when I started experimenting with my mum's makeup and I kept going from there."
In the decade since, the MUA has honed her aesthetic, now as one of the most in-demand MUAs behind some standout faces. Most notably with Doechii – painting her face all over the world from Glastonbury to Paris Fashion Week and the BET Awards to the Met Gala. Unapologetically glam and Black, Chelsea's work makes a strong case for the full beat, waving clean girl beauty goodbye.
In terms of glam, my main thing was eyes, so I learned how to do a good eyeshadow look and that's what all the girls wanted back then. It was a good eye, glitter, lashes, the whole thing. From there, I started learning more about the base and how to shape brows, how to do the lips. I was learning as I went along.
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