About Me
Catherine Velazquez is a Connecticut based Makeup artist with a fascination for beauty makeup, prosthetics, and everything in between. She has always been drawn to science fiction movies and TV shows (mostly due to her father’s own affinity for them). Even when she was absolutely terrified of the monster on the screen, she would keep watching while her dad would tell her “it’s just a person in a mask” which ultimately piqued her interest as to how those “masks” were made.
Catherine always thrived in the arts; music and fine arts were always her favorite. She naturally gravitated to anything she could create with her own hands from knitting & crocheting, to costuming, painting, jewelry making, and calligraphy. When it was time to go to college, she attended Central Connecticut State University and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design & Technology with an emphasis in stage management in 2014.
Although she had had such a wonderful time hanging lights, designing sets,
creating paperwork, learning art and fashion history and color theory, none of it struck her as something she could see herself doing as a job for the rest of her life. She spent the next four years bartending and waitressing in the beautiful city of New Haven, CT until she came to the realization that the class she had spent the least amount of time in was the one that she had had the most fun in.
As part of her theatre degree, Catherine had taken the two theatre makeup courses that CCSU had to offer and was, even four years later, still inspired by what she had learned from her professor and professional makeup artist, Leigh Radziwon. After hemming and hawing about it for a couple of months, Catherine bit the bullet and enrolled in The Make-Up Designory New York’s Mastery Makeup Artist program.
Diving in head first to such a beautiful world of makeup with so many other talented artists has only further fueled Catherine’s own passion.
She is currently exploring the many different avenues that her career can go down but is still avidly the most excited about making crazy, creepy, cool monsters in the hopes that her work will someday have another little girl amazed and scared while her dad tells her “its only a person in a mask.”