Makeup Can’t Fix An Ugly Work Ethic with Alexis Oakley

Making Moves with TK

Taylor King & Red Circle

Education, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week on Making Moves, TK is joined by celebrity makeup artist Alexis Oakley! The two bond over midwest boys and talk about how they navigated building their careers without knowing anyone when they first moved to LA. Alexis dishes on her favorite clients and reveals the biggest difference she's noticed about doing makeup for influencers compared to traditional celebrities! Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code MOVES at Manscaped.com. Get your man a gift you’ll both enjoy, the gift of MANSCAPED. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to Making Music TK. I'm here with one of my favorite people in L.A.
0:16.0	Probably just because she's like, has the Midwest vibe. But yeah, I am obsessed with her.
0:21.6	She is a celebrity makeup artist. She also is, in my eyes, talent herself. She has an epic
0:28.4	YouTube channel, Instagram, all the things. It is my dear friend Alexis Motherforki, no great.
0:35.4	I'm so excited to be here. Hi! Thanks so much for coming. Oh my god, of course. I'm like,
0:40.0	Alexis posted my one of my reels on her story and I was like, yep, done. She's on the black
0:44.8	ass like I need to have her. Literally, I got so many responses to that too, by the way.
0:48.3	I really was obsessed with it. Yeah, they were like, oh my god, I needed this. I'm like,
0:51.3	it's for me. So first of all, give me your little, I like to start with a little elevator pitch
0:56.5	from everyone. Yeah. So give us a tea like, where are you from? How'd you get here now?
1:00.0	Quickly. So I'm from Missouri, Midwest girlies. Love it. I moved out here like a month after high
1:05.5	school and I wanted to be a celebrity makeup artist. So I assisted for like three and a half years
1:10.2	and then now I've kind of started doing my own thing. You know, I do makeup, influencing like
1:14.8	all the things. So did you skip it on college? Yeah. And you went straight to LA. Yeah, I came
1:20.3	straight to LA and I went to a makeup school and it was like a five month program. So it was kind
1:24.1	of like one of those things like, if I like it, I'll stay in LA. If I hate it, I'll move back home.
1:28.4	Obviously ended up loving it and I got an assisting job like two days after. So it's kind of like
1:32.8	things like really fell into place. Did you always know growing up, you were going to do something
1:37.3	a little bit not normal? Yeah, like I remember being like five years old and be like, I'm going to
1:41.2	live in LA and everyone's like, okay. I know. Look at you like you have five hats. Yeah, it's like
1:45.8	okay. Okay. Love it. Love to hear it. We're going to start off with a juicy segment. It's the
1:50.4	poll questions. I try to like cure it. They'm towards you. And then we'll go into like the real
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