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From make-up intern at a mall kiosk in Baltimore, Maryland to creating vibrant daring looks as key make-up artist for punk rapper Rico Nasty, Scott Osbourne is the 20-year-old make-up artist making his mark through the unordinary.

“At first I used to be doing regular soft glam, and your normal beauty make-up. But there wasn’t a WOW-factor to my art, until in the future I desired to try something way out of the box so I attempted drag make-up on Rico Nasty, one among my primary clients. Once I did that it went crazy. My aesthetic grew from that.”

You’ve probably seen 20-year-old Scott Osbourne’s vibrant make-up looks on Rico as he currently tours alongside along with her as her key make-up artist. But Osbourne has more strings to his bow. He grew up in Baltimore Maryland where he was encouraged at a young age to model, dance and act. He at all times had an urge to do his friends’ make-up and worked his way up from intern to MAC cosmetics worker, to NYFW and now captures a unique character on Rico Nasty with each brush stroke, in addition to your other favs including Slick Woods and Tommy Genesis. Below, we caught up with Scott to catch him just after Coachella and to seek out out more about his perspective on beauty.

Where do you reside and where are you from? Tell me a bit about yourself and where you grew up?
I currently live in Los Angeles and I grew up in Baltimore Maryland. In elementary and middle school I at all times had this passion for fashion, I used to need to be a designer with a giant household name after I began middle school I got back into dance. I trained in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, lyrical, and other types of dance. I attended Carver Center for the Arts, where we had a Black awareness group that used to placed on a college fashion show. The show used to feature the most popular kids at school performing and modelling. I remember wanting to do all my homegirls make-up for the style show but no person trusted me!

In tenth grade, I began on the lookout for a job and it was a small make-up store within the mall called Star Faces. I went and applied, interviewed and got hired as an intern. So for 3 months, I trained, bringing in my friends with me to work on daily basis practising and although I wasn’t that great, every day I got higher. By the point I got in my senior yr of highschool, I had gotten way higher in make-up and decided to freelance. I now began getting booked for jobs and had people calling me on daily basis for make-up appointments. Once I turned 18, I applied to MAC cosmetics, I used to be working at MAC for about nine months and decided I wanted way greater than what MAC was allowing. Thankfully while at MAC I got booked to be a key artist for NYFW and LANYU couture AW17.

What’s your earliest beauty related memory?
One in all my earliest beauty memories I even have is after I did my first beauty shoot. I booked my very own models, photographer and I did all the things from the make-up, to creative direction and even all the way down to the hair. It was a candy theme photoshoot and I shot it right in my kitchen and everybody was beyond amazed after I dropped the photos.

How did you and Rico Nasty meet?
Me and Rico met through a Instagram post. Her old hair stylist was on the lookout for an artist who could do her make-up to go along with her latest hair and everybody was tagging me. It was January 14th, 2018 and ever since then me and her clicked and I’ve been doing her make-up since.

What has been probably the most difficult make-up look you’ve got done for her?
One of the vital difficult looks I ever did on Rico was the drag make-up look. We were on her second tour in Chicago and I had seen this girl have one of the best, wildest-looking drag make-up and Rico said she desired to try it next for her show, and we did!! It took me 4 hours to remodel her into drag make-up, nevertheless it turned out super amazing and now I can do whole drag look on Rico in lower than an hour!

What’s been your profession highlight thus far?
One in all biggest careers highlights to date is travelling. Also getting my work on the duvet of The FADER,  Oyster Mag, Crack, and CLASH. Together with a Spread in Paper Magazine.

Describe your beauty aesthetic in three words.
Club kid. Original. Unordinary.

What’s your favourite smell and why?
A perfume called Lolita Lempicka. Once I smell it, it takes me back to after I used to live in Baltimore City and my mom and aunt had a house together. My aunt used to spray it on her. It’s like a really sweet, charming scent. It’s a scent that lingers, one small spray will last you the entire day.

Which fictional character do you most relate to and why?
The fictional character I relate to probably the most, I’d say, is Elle Woods. My favourite color is pink too and likewise she was the underdog. They doubted her and she or he still got here out on top. Woods also proved with there’s no profession path or industry too serious for frolicsome, fun fashion. And that’s like me and make-up. Why stay within the box? It’s make-up – rejoice!

Tomorrow you get up with one other face of your selection. Whose is it and why?
Tomorrow if I were to get up with one other face I’d want it to be Kim Kardashian because she has a superbly symmetrical face. She looks beautiful with or without make-up and it might be fun to try different make-up looks and see what I could create. 

Who’s your beauty icon/favourite look of all time? 
My beauty icon is Rihanna, I like what she stands for and the undeniable fact that she is a female artist that not only does music, but beauty and fashion as well. She also isn’t afraid to take possibilities or get creative along with her looks. My favourite make-up look is Rihanna’s Met Gala 2017 make-up look. She had a really dewy and glowing face, and pink blown out from her eyes to her cheek, with a white silver inner corner highlight, with the proper reddish maroon lip to enhance the pink on her eyes.

When do you’re feeling most beautiful?
I feel most beautiful after I leave the barbershop with that fresh haircut, freshly snatched eyebrows, beard trimmed and lined up, and my skin glowing from my serums!

What does beauty mean to you?
Beauty to me means expressing yourself, wearing who you might be to your fullest potential. Beauty isn’t just a glance, it’s your overall aura and the way you carry yourself.