Kate Oja
MakeUp Artist
Special Effects
Kate Oja
MakeUp Artist
Special Effects
About me
About me
There was never a period in her life that Kate could not remember playing with make-up, even at an early age sneaking into her mother’s room and learning the right way to not apply lipstick and blush. Encouraging her daughter like most mothers, Kate’s took every girls right of passage a step further providing her with “little” beauty case that wasn’t so little. Bigger than anyone else she knew.
Her beauty case accompanied Kate everywhere and when she became a teenager, she discovered the true power of make-up; it’s ability to transform her own face from beauty, to goth, to rock star and back to beauty again the next day.
After graduating high school, Kate moved to Paris and soon discovered a knack for fashion as well modeling. However, it was make-up that was the constant in her life and when a friend told her about Sydney Make-Up school in Sydney, Australia, she arrived in time to begin the 2011 Bridal/Beauty Make-Up Course. With emphasis on skincare, application and design, she began working professionally as a make-up artist.
Yet, there was still something missing. Kate had always been a fan of horror films, particularly zombie movies. Then it hit her without warning. Her destiny was to become a special effects make-up artist and character designer. And to do that, there’s only one place to go: Hollywood.
Working seven days a week between two jobs, Kate saved enough money to move to Los Angeles and attend Cinema Make-Up School where she was one of the few accepted into the Leonard Engelman Fellowship Program. Graduating the program, she is now a fully trained special effects make-up artist.
However, while in Los Angeles, Kate’s reputation as a dedicated and meticulous make-up artist followed her. Her career quickly took off, becoming the Key Make-up artist for the upcoming Television series Sange Nagra, as well as continuing to work photo-shoots and fashion shows.
Kate follows the philosophy that “less is more” and that make-up should enhance your natural beauty, never over-take it. “Every face is unique and make-up should be as unique as every face.”