Having been able to keep huge corporate client Demerara Distillers Limited has had Makeup Artist Cideca B Mangal turning heads for quite some time. She is also the favourite of some models, franchise holders and the reigning Miss Global International Cynthia Dookie. Cideca’s works under the name Makeup by B. And she says what keeps clients coming back is the satisfaction they get when they look into the mirror and find not someone else looking back but a flawless version of themselves. Cideca explained in a sit down with The Scene that is most important.
Many clients find themselves dialling her after they would have seen her work on a friend. She noted that some makeup artists give their clients a look that is so farfetched, they cannot be recognized as the same person. A subtle look is what she goes for, believing that ‘a little goes a long way’.
Makeup became her thing while she was still a teen, but art had been part of her since she was in kindergarten. She doodled on paper, the table, and even the walls until she was caught by her mother and had to clean it. But her mother, she said, always encouraged her to keep at it, just on paper. When she started Apex Academy, she took to drawing cartoons and nudes that grabbed the attention of her peers. Her favourite pieces to sketch were SpongeBob and anime characters from Naruto.