Makeup Artists Tell Their Most Horrifying Stories

- No no no no no no you're not going to pay me. - I love my clients, but sometimes you find someone who is a total nightmare. This is the worst thing I have ever had to face. A woman came in with her daughter. The daughter was going to put on

makeup

. She was going to like a big event. And she was between 16 and 18 years old. I remember the mother asked the daughter if she had eaten anything today, and the daughter said she hadn't. And she was starting to do her

makeup

and her mother seemed angry with her daughter, so she figured that maybe she had low blood sugar or maybe she wasn't feeling well today.

Then the mother was a little angry and she said that she was going to the mall to get him something to eat. She's probably 95% done at this point and the girl didn't look so good. And suddenly she vomits on me, on the floor, she touches my face. I didn't even have time to react before she passed out. She now faints and falls into my arms. And I feel like she's in the twilight zone because no one sees this. There's no one around, it's crazy. So covered in vomit, I run towards the mall. She said she was going to one of the stores, so I run and find her.

And she's online looking for food for the girl. Then I thought, listen, her daughter vomited, she's not really feeling well, she passed out. She doesn't even seem surprised. I'm like what? Girl? We return together to the counter, the girl starts to eat. And I imagine they'll leave at this point because obviously you're going to go home and go to bed, you're not feeling well. The mother turns to me and says: can you do her makeup? Can you finish? I do his eyelashes, in the vomit. It was the craziest story of my makeup career. I hope you are good. - Who do I want to start with?

A girlfriend once hired me, it was for her and just a couple of other people. I get there, I do makeup for a person. She says, “Oh, this is perfect,” thank you so much. Out of the corner of my eye, I see him walking back and forth and I wonder what, what is happening? The bride starts having a panic attack, but then she starts screaming: I'm going to do my own makeup. I'll do it myself. I don't know, maybe I should just, I don't know why I hired anyone. I said, "Hey, listen, I understand that if you're nervous, it's just makeup." If there's something you don't like, you know, we can take it away.

She wasn't allowing it. She had this meltdown for two hours. One of her relatives approached me and said: can you talk to her? I'm not Dr. Phil, I'm here to put your makeup on. Do you want to know how this ends? I spent about three minutes doing this girl's makeup. Three minutes. And I'm like fire in my soul, like she's never put this little eyeshadow on anyone, but I just do it to go through the motions. Boopity boop, you're done. She walks to the mirror, to the hotel room mirror and says (sighing) it's perfect. And I was like.

Well. - I'm Naisha and I'm a makeup artist. She was a bridal client, so we love those brides, right? She demanded that I be her makeup artist. Okay, yes, I understand that a lot. I have a little skill. Three weeks before her wedding, I have that day booked, of course. Good thing I had someone cancel so I can include her. I called her and informed her of my rates and deposits. She didn't want to pay a deposit, she didn't want to pay any of these fees, she just wanted me to show up. No, no, no, no, no, you're going to pay me.

So now we are talking face to face. She says I'm horrible, that I'm a fraud, that I'm a fake. Who is a fraud? I don't. She throws things in the room. She wants me to take off my earrings. She's in my space now, throwing things, screaming. Then they throw her out. She felt some way. She calls me and says, "I'm so sorry." I was really scared, my wedding is coming up. But can you do my makeup? I will pay the deposit. (laughs) No. - So I'm going to this concert, it's for a medical practice. I don't know what they were doing, but they needed me to do some hair and makeup talent.

She finally shows up, whoever this lady is, I have no idea who she is. She doesn't say hello. She doesn't say anything. So I'm great, it will be one of these days. We walked in the door and she said, "First things first, I don't really wear makeup, I'm sure I wouldn't like what you do." And I say she's fine, great. In my head I say, "she's fine, bitch, whatever." But on her face I'm cool. No problem. She says, and another thing, I don't know what makeup you have in that bag but I use high-end makeup. I mean expensive things.

And first of all, honey, my kit is not cheap. Two, how are you going to assume I have cheap makeup? Three, why would you hire me assuming I have cheap makeup and don't know what I'm doing? And I'm thinking it's going to come out like a Burberry, a Tom Ford, you know, something big, a Chanel. I'm thinking she's going to run away. She pulls out a sandwich bag and it's full of used brushes, an Urban Decay eyeshadow palette, and an IT Cosmetics BB cream. I'm looking at her like. But I thought you said you had very expensive things in your kit, but that's neither here nor there.

So I have to take a moment and step back to her and say honey, we can't use any of this for production. That's what production is like, I need powders, I need foundations. She thought that in her head he was an elegant, all-powerful, expensive person, and she wasn't. And that I was just a girl with a makeup kit who knew how to do makeup. I'm not like no love, I'm not a person who knows how to do makeup, I'm a professional makeup artist. That being said, I simply did what she had to do. And I left.

I took my few hundred dollars and ended up being late to my next client. - Like any other job, there will be crazy moments, but usually things go pretty well. - If you are looking to hire a makeup artist, do your research. Nine times out of 10, what we have in our kit is more expensive than what you have. -If you have any crazy

stories

, I'll want to read them while I fall asleep tonight, so leave them in the comments below. (ragtime music) - Hey, Unsolved is on a new channel. And now your part. - Subscribe here. - That was my part.