Contributors

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Hillary Clark-Mina

A third-generation beauty entrepreneur, celeb MUA, beauty editor, and medical esthetician, Clark was the youngest Beauty Director in Nordstrom's history. She was 

recruited to launch Sephora.com as their West Coast Beauty Editor and MUA.  
During NY Fashion Week, you'd find her backstage doing makeup, interviewing designers, and writing the daily show notes for Sephora.com Magazine. 

Hillary yearned to be hands-on with her clients again and opened her by-appointment, private beauty atelier, Blush Beauty, on Union Street in San Francisco. Allure magazine and the New York Times Style section regularly featured Blush and her services.

She went on to lead product development for brands carried at Sephora and major retailers. 

Hillary's advice is regularly featured on podcasts and in top media, including VOGUE, WWD, ALLURE, The Zoe Report, Glamour, and InStyle among others.


https://www.hillaryclarkbeauty.com/
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Susan Gerdeman

Susan Gerdeman – formerly McAlarney - has been an expert in the cosmetic industry, having held jobs both behind the camera and in front of as an educator, writer, and artist. The majority of her career has been spent with luxury and prestige brands in training and education, sales, and marketing with P.R. responsibilities for over 25 years.

Originally from Boston, she graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Performing Arts and Mass Communications. She worked as a professional make-up artist in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

Susan has held positions at Mac Cosmetics as part of the first US based make-up team, Nordstrom - as the first female Regional Beauty Director, and spent 10 years in training and education at Chanel as the National Make-up Educational Executive for North America based in NYC. While at Chanel, she was the first ever recipient of the “Education Executive Of The Year” award.