As a drama student at Pittsburg State University in the 1970s, Terry Binns learned how to put his best face forward when he walked onstage. For the past two decades, he's been a lot more interested in putting the best face on his clients. Binns had planned to be an actor until he got a bit part in a low-budget film and was unexpectedly hired to replace one of the California makeup artists. "I had specialized in special-effects makeup in college," Binns says, "so I jumped in and did makeup, and the next thing I knew, I was an artist." Binns went back to school for his cosmetology degree and proceeded to go from being the maestro of
maquillage to the emperor of epidermis. When he started out as a makeup artist, he used to create bloody wounds and broken noses for hospital ER disaster drills. Now he's in the healing profession himself. "I only want people to look good these days -- without makeup."
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