1000 pyrotechnics, 400 costumed extras, and one wedding couple made Bad Bunny’s half time Superbowl performance last night the most joyful, the most intentionally storied, precise and purposeful, heritage-honoring, politically charged, and downright exciting Superbowl performance of all time. This was truly art as history.
139.2 million people watched, the largest single-minute audience in Nielson (the industry ratings body) history. That’s 12 million more than watched the game itself.
The team that work with Bad Bunny are probably the best in entertainment right now. And one of them is featured in our new book Blush: Contemporary Makeup Artists.
With a career spanning more than fifteen years, Mexico City–based Ana G de V is known for her bold and adaptable artistry, which has made her a go-to artist shaping the faces of Latin America’s cultural ascent.
Her sights weren’t always set on beauty. She worked as an accountant but left the job to pursue work as a makeup artist, kicking off her second career by training at Vancouver’s Blanche Macdonald Centre. Upon returning to Mexico, she worked as a MAC Cosmetics trainer before being tapped by Chanel to become the luxury house’s official makeup artist for the country.
With clients spanning Carolina Herrera, Calvin Klein, and Nike, and editorials published in international editions of Vogue, G de V has also painted the faces of, Eiza González, J Balvin, Adriana Lima, Kenia Os, and Yalitza Aparicio Martínez, as well as Bad Bunny, and is an integral part of Latin America’s growing cultural capital.
With hundreds of extraordinary images shot by the likes of superstar fashion photographers Tim Walker, Nick Knight, Carlin Jacobs, Campbell Addy, Harley Weir, Rafael Pavarotti, Paolo Roversi and more, Blush: Contemporary Makeup Artists spotlights makeup at its most imaginative.
As supermodel Linda Evangelista writes in the foreword to Blush: Contemporary Makeup Artists, makeup is essential not only to fashion but to all of us every day. It gives us the power to choose how we present ourselves and the attitude we reveal.’
We don’t know yet if Ana played a part in last night’s performance, but the attitude Evangelista refers to was certainly on show last night. From the legend The only thing more powerful than hate is love, emblazoned on the jumbotron above the stadium, to the words on the football Bad Bunny threw to the camera at the end: Together we are America. Proof, hopefully in the words of our JR book that art can change the world.
Take a closer look at Blush: Contemporary Makeup Artists.
