Film and Television Makeup Artist

Valecia Sarmento is a professional Makeup Designer. She has worked on numerous television programs such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Barney and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Two of those programs won Emmy Awards for Makeup. Her numerous feature film credits include Miss Congeniality starring Sandra Bullock, A Life Less Ordinary with Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor, Still Holding On: The Cadillac Jack Story, The Ticket starring Shannen Doherty, Unabomber: The True Story, The Trojan Horse, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Touch (for which she received a Sundance Film Festival Honorable Mention award for Best Makeup), Holiday in Your Heart starring Bernadette Peters and LeAnn Rimes, and Disney's Wish Upon a Star. Her most recent projects include work on the Emmy Award winning television series Alias and the feature film The Alamo, starring Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton and Jason Patric. Valecia is the owner and lead artist for V-Makeup Studios. Valecia jumped into her career training in 1988 attending cosmetology school while studying the sciences in chemistry and human biology. Upon completing a Human Biology/ Pre-Med degree, Valecia chose to shift gears towards the arts where she actively pursued her training for Film and TV, specializing in design and character development. Her studies in Pre-Med and Paramedic training continues to help her tremendously when doing special makeup effects with monsters and gore. Valecia has been the department head of various vanity departments (focusing on Makeup) since 1994 and has found success in her chosen field. Throughout her career, Valecia has had the opportunity to work with many great actors and models including Christie Brinkley, Shannen Doherty, Chuck Norris, Robert Redford, Alicia Keys, Beyonce Knowles, Mark McGrath and Clint Black. She has received several honorable mentions for Best Makeup at film festivals all over the world, including Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Critics and South X Southwest. Valecia does it all: feature films, independent films, movies of the week, episodic television, music videos, commercials, corporate and industrial videos and print work for adverts and editorials. Not being limited to television and film, Valecia’s work has also been featured in magazines like Vogue, Glamour and Maxim as well as yearly calendars for Muscle Mag Swimsuit and Playboy. Valecia is a graduate of Brigham Young University. Visit her web page at www.vmakeupstudio.com.