WELCOME TO MAKE UP EYE
I am Juliet Downes, a Durban based, freelance make up artist. Make up Eye was established in 2008. I have been working in this industry for three years and have used my skills in a wide variety of make up, hair and styling projects ...

BRIDAL & MATRIC DANCE
My favourite makeup is making brides look beautiful. I've been doing this since I graduated and love every wedding. I also really enjoy doing make up and hair styling for Matric dances and special occasions.

MUSIC VIDEO
Fire Through The Window, an up and coming local band recruited me to work on set doing prosthetics on all the 'cast' members for their music video.

MAGAZINE
I have worked doing the makeup, hair styling and clothes styling for various magazines like Weigh-less, Get It and Afrodishiac - an online magazine covering all new fashion, hot models, amazing photographers in and around South Africa.

CELEBRITY
Through Weighless Magazine I worked on a cover story with South Africa's favorite prankster Leon Schuster and his son. For Top Billing I worked with Jae, a well known South African singer. I worked on Jae's make up for a show and a photographic shoot at Max Institute of Fashion Art.

PHOTOGRAPHERS
Over the years I have worked with many local photographers and videographers including Sean Lourenz, Chris Lourenz, Justin Cleaver, Justin Magee, Gregory Martin, Vanessa Juggernath, Caelin Roodt, Alica Crause, Kym Burmester, Ben Myburg.

PHOTOGRAPHY
For the past 3 years I have worked at Picture Perfect photographic studio on make up, hair and styling a variety of clients for portrait shoots.

BODY PAINTING
I have created many body painting effects for promotional activities for various brands in and around Durban.

HAIR STYLING
It's important that I am competent in styling hair. Doing shoots, wedding and special occasions all the time means having to make the overall look perfect.