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Breaking into the Biz: Become a Celebrity Stylist

  • Crystal A. Wright: The Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide, 4th Edition

    Crystal A. Wright: The Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide, 4th Edition
    Everything you need to know about building your career as a freelance hair, makeup or fashion stylist. Information on marketing yourself, testing with photographers, building a great portfolio, signing with an agency and much more.

  • Crystal Wright: Crystal Wright's Packaging Your Portfolio Workshop

    If working in fashion or entertainment has always been a dream of yours, then you will want to join Crystal Wright, President of the Crystal Agency, and author of The Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide for an action-packed 1-Day “Build Your Portfolio and Marketing” workshop for freelance Makeup, Hair, Fashion Stylists and Manicurists.

    This 1-Day class focuses on self-promotion, presentation, negotiation, goal setting, and agency representation for the freelance Makeup Artist, Hair Stylist, or Fashion Stylist.

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Crystal Agency: BEHIND THE SCENES

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    WE WORK HARD & HAVE FUN AT CRYSTAL AGENCY!

Celebrity Styling

  • Morris Chestnut, Blair Underwood and Mekki Pheiffer on the cover of Essence Magazine
    Styling celebrities takes a special kind of person with just the right temperment. It's exciting and stressful all at once, and it's not for everyone. It requires more than just the ability to buy great clothes. Qualities of a good stylist include diplomacy, graciouness, and business acumen. Oh, and a degree in psychology is a plus. ENJOY!

CRYSTAL AGENCY ARTIST PROFILES!

March 19, 2008

Crystal Agency Signs Hot New Fashion Stylist Hollie Williamson to Agency Roster

Hollie_emmy_lo006 Congratulations to Crystal Agency Stylist Hollie Williamson who recently graduated from assisting to keying her own jobs with her first editorial in Emmy magazine where she styled Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall from the CW series “The Game” . Hollie first met Crystal after signing up for Crystal’s  Building Your Portfolio Workshop in 2006. “It is worth every single penny that anybody could ever invest in themselves. Crystal is beyond thorough and answered every single question I ever had about a career in styling. I tell everyone remotely interested in this field to buy her book and take the class!” says Hollie.
   
Hollie_emmy_lo003 In February, Hollie styled PrivacyWear’s new summer collection web photos. I was lucky enough to tag along, take some pictures, and watch Hollie do her thing!

November 15, 2007

Celebrity Hair Stylist Darico Jackson Gets a Little Help From His Friends

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When it came time for Celebrity Hair Stylist Darico Jackson to create a new comp card to market himself, he knew he needed something special. So instead of going the regular route of thumbing through his portfolio to find the right images, he decided to ask for a little help from his friends.

Within a couple of days Darico had managed to do what most magazines can't, get 3 hot celebrities, and one hot celebrity photographer together in the same room for 3 hours to produce a photo shoot for the express purpose of––helping out a friend who wanted to do something a little different.

Tasha Smith, breakout star of "Why Did I Get Married" and Daddy's Little Girls; Michael Ealy, of the hit movie Barbershop, and network TV show Sleeper Cell; and Johawrah Jones of Ugly Betty, all showed up at the studio of celebrity photographer John Russo for a day of fun and photos.

It was a pleasant surprise when Monarch Magazine publisher Will Walters agreed to publish the photos in and on the cover of the Summer 2007 issue.Darico_monarch_001

Darico is based in Los Angeles, California. To see more of Darico's hair styling work on some of Hollywood's finest visit Hair by Darico at CrystalAgency. Email Crystal.

 

September 18, 2007

Meet Our Stars: Learn a Little About The Talent at Crystal Agency

Melinda Tarbell, Fashion Stylist
Melinda_magic_2007_4Melinda Tarbell brings a unique and client savvy perspective to fashion styling. Her creative instincts and keen eye for detail are respected and admired by her industry contemporaries. Whether high fashion or lifestyle, she brings a sensible, marketable viewpoint.
    Melinda's work philosophy is: "With positive energy comes innovation and teamwork." She is prompt, reliable, committed, creative, and passionate about her work, always bringing integrity to every project.


Darico Jackson, Hair Stylist

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DaRico (Rico) Jackson has always been an artist at heart, launching two businesses in short succession; Fusion, an eclectic upscale hair salon with a neo soul vibe, and Contour, a non-profit modeling agency for people of color. He quickly gained notoriety when he became Shaquille Oneal's stylist. Rico has worked on several makeover series including the Fashion Network's "A Second Look, and " "How Do I Look" for E. Celebrity clients include Tasha Smith of Daddy's Little Girls, Michael Ealy of Barbershop, and Gina Ravera.

Hair & Makeup Artist, Amalia Moscoso

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Now based in New York, Amalia does both hair and makeup equally well. Her work has been feautured in Statement, Salon City, and San Diego magazines. Celebrity clients include such notables as Whitney Cummings, Jared Letto, Molly Ringwald, and former Miss USA, Kenya Moore.

Makeup Artist, Crystal Maria Showletter1_4
In Crystal's eyes, beauty is all about lightness, purity and, paradoxically, mastering the artificial.
    Crystal is inspired by the passion she sees in people's faces, as well as colour, film, painting, and photography.
    Since moving to LA in September she has worked on several celebrity shoots. Keep an eye out for her new tears and the months go by.





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Makeup & Hair Stylist Stephanie Flor has been sorely missed since she moved back to New York after a brief stint in Los Angeles.

Originally from a small town in Suffolk County New York, Stephanie ventured to LA for school, and a foot in the door at Crystal Agency. 
    In a few short months she amassed an impressive3 array of credits including Emmy and Statement magazines, In-Touch, MTV and Seventeen. The Temptations, Yung Berg, Martin Short, Terry Crews, and Patrick Warburton fill in the celebrity section of her resume.

Stephanie Flor looks forward to the future in collaborating with people with the same mentality to deliver greatness and always beyond expectations. Makeup artistry isn’t a career it’s a way of living.