She is the artist behind some of the most gorgeous faces on the red carpet, the runway and magazine covers. While her talent is making women feel beautiful, her line of makeup brings fresh fun color to cosmetics. Here’s a look at the creative life of Jeanine Lobell.

“People try to make rules when it comes to makeup. I think you should do whatever you want,” says renowned makeup artist Jeanine Lobell. Using makeup as a form of personal expression, Lobell has become one of the most significant makeup artists in the industry.

“She designed my looks for Charlie’s Angels” says Cameron Diaz, “so I completely trust her. I use her products. Her colors, I always love her colors.”

“I love the lips pen…..I think I have the Vici one,” says Sex and the City actress Kristen Davis.

Created in 1994, Jeanine’s cosmetics line Stila, combines fresh colors with whimsical imagination. “When I was making Stila, I never looked at cosmetic packaging. Like, what am I gonna do, buy what everybody else has? I gotta go outside cosmetics and find things. I’ll make a product, and then hand it out to people that aren’t makeup artists and say ‘Let me watch you put that on.’ I always think about how to make things easier for people,” said Jeanine.

Jean Godfrey June, beauty director of Lucky magazine praises Stila for its free-spirited approach to beauty. “I think Stila really woke up the cosmetics industry to the fact that women love something that is just for pure pleasure and that makeup should be fun.

Jeanine’s personal interest began at an early age. An international upbringing exposed her to a variety of cultures and beauty ideals. “My dad was in the Korean War, and then he came back and he didn’t know what to do with himself. So he went and lived in Spain and he met my mom and then they moved to Sweden. We were born there and we grew up there and had English tutors, since we didn’t speak English,” says Jeanine, laughing. “We didn’t look like anybody else because we were dark and everyone else was blonde.”

Jeanine’s dad understood and encouraged her artistic endeavors. “I was out walking the street with my dad and he points to this little hot dog vendor and he said, ‘Nobody’s standing there telling him to spread the mustard like this for maximum productivity. That’s his hot dog stand. Honey, you need to get your own hot dog stand,” tells Jeanine. “Cause he got it. And so, then I got into the whole makeup thing.”

After attending classes at the London School of Makeup, Jeanine started working as a freelance makeup artist. “I just, like, flew by the seat of my pants for a long time. So I learned it all on the job.”

As Jeanine’s portfolio grew, she started working with big name celebrities for magazine covers and music videos. “I would always expect the worst when you hear all these stories, like the temper tantrum actress or the drunk rock star. I was always like ‘Oh God’. The fact that people turned out to be so nice just blew my mind.”

In 1994, Jeanine’s experience led to a job on her first film. Jeanine says wryly, “I didn’t know how to do movies. So I said, ‘OK, I’ll figure it out how to. And that’s when I met Tony.”

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