Cherie Straw Transformations

Beauty – Des Moines

-MAKEUP ARTIST OF THE YEAR DES MOINES- My name is Cherie Straw. I am a Self-Trained, Licensed Special Effects Makeup Artist/Educated Hair Stylist from Des Moines, IA. I specialize in full figure transformations from head to toe. When I was a child my mother was a clay sculpture artist and taught me everything I needed to know to create amazing 3D pieces of art--I did not realize this until the age of 16 when it \"clicked\", I decided to apply everything I had learned from clay sculpture to special effects makeup. I started sculpting and applying it to the human body, the result was fantastic. I decided that there should be no \"set\" way of doing special effects makeup, why put walls up on any kind of art form. I realized that there needs to be more people fighting to keep special effects makeup alive and kicking and what better way to do it than to create a new technique to keep things new, fresh, and interesting. Artist, is a profession that keeps on giving, you give the world your artwork, they give to you their appreciation.