Yasmin Heinz, make-up artist and Beauty Editor of TUSH Magazine was raised in a hippie family in the deepest countryside of northern Germany. Inspired by the chaos around her, as a child she started painting on anything and everything she found – in a way she‘s never really stopped as now she’s painting faces. Using everything she finds usable as make-up, sometimes even mixing earth and flowers together (that‘ll be her hippie roots calling). Floating somewhere between London, Paris and Ibiza, this free spirit says she would love to inspire a younger generation to create a new vision of makeup for the future. 

When did you first realize you wanted to be a Makeup Artist?

Actually I was a painter and still am in form of painting faces. I painted on everything I could find, since I was a kid. On doors, walls, bedsheets, which drove my mother in sane many times. When I got a scholarship in New York, I met Linda Mason who mentored me. Through and with her as an assistant I found out, this is my way of expressing myself. On my way up there were a lot of other inspiring Makeup Artists I worked with in the beginning on shows and huge campaigns,the most impressing ones were Heidi Morawetz from Chanel, Tom Pecheux and Pat Mc Grath.

What is inspiring you at the moment? And how does inspiration come to you or do you seek it out?

It happens through a sort of chaos in my head. Through this chaos I am inspired. All my ideas come as well from my childhood, as I grew up in the deepest countryside, where I spent a lot of time with nature and animals. I saw a lot of comic films and read all kinds of books. This will always stay my creative base.

Whose shows do you most enjoy doing runway make-up for and why?

My own shows and the shows in team with Pat Mc Grath, which I did for three years. I worked with her on Galliano, Christian Dior and Victor & Rolf.

What equipment/ kind of makeup do you use for your work?

This would be a list, which is way too long. I use everything I find usable as makeup. Sometimes even earth or flower.

What was your first proper job and how were you feeling then?

My first proper job was for Italian Vanity about American Indians with Lance Staedler in New York. The models had to look like Indians with painted native symbols on their bodies. I felt terrible, I was so nervous, specially with this famous photographer, that I had to go to the ladies room all the time feeling kind of dizzy. Everybody on that shoot was a star except me. Up to today I still do not know, how I survived that special day. The images look still amazing.

Designers have certain models who inspire them and become their muse, is it at all like that for make-up artists? If so do you have a favourite model/muse and why them?

No not really, every human being is very beautiful in its own way.

What’s the best piece of advice you ever got?

Aim High, stay social, always help others on your way up to the top. You will meet everybody again, when your star sinks.

Is there anyone that has greatly inspired/ helped you on your way becoming a Makeup Artist?

A lot of people helped me through my carrier, as there were Helmut Newton, Lance Staedler, Isabel Snyder, Marc Hispard, Thierry Le Gouès, Rankin, Pat Mc Grath and many more.