POREfessional primer

Kate Harvie is the Executive Editor and Food & Drink Editor for In Step Beauty. She is the contributing writer and website manager for the Universal Hip Hop Museum, and the author of a book, Believe It and Behave It: How to Restart, Reset, and Reframe Your Life. Follow her on all the social platforms (@glossgal). Jeffrey Paul Aristotle may have had Jeffrey Paul in mind when he said, “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish.” Jeffrey is an award-winning makeup artist and hairstylist. For 20 years and counting, he is Hollywood’s and Bollywood's go-to artist for celebrities, film festivals, red carpets, fashion, and movie PR. He is a resource for makeup artists, beauty columns fashion & beauty blogs as well as beauty magazines including ELLE, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, and beauty how-to books. Additionally, he is a chef, perfumer, writer, wellness advocate, beauty advisor, leader in Sufi and beauty meditations groups, and a practicing Dervish. Jeffrey believes that today's world has prompted everyone to have a deeper reverence for life and nature. His passion for truth, accompanied by an exploration into spirituality, has led him to create a new perspective in the beauty world. Through a blend of aesthetics and wellbeing, Jeffrey created a new paradigm called Beauty as Wellness, which includes the in-development Fragrance as Wellness. Jeffrey teaches people how to look deep into the world of beauty, which includes all types of fragrance, find tools to infuse and support a healthy life. This spiritual adventurer currently lives in Los Angeles. He spends time on the east coast to look after his parents. Follow him on Instagram – @theperfumeyogi, @fragranceaswellness, @jeffreypaulbeauty – and see him being a hair and makeup artist who seeks, and presents, the soulful expression of beauty.

Gilbert Soliz is a Los Angeles-based celebrity and fashion makeup artist, as well as the contributing beauty editor at In Step Beauty. Gilbert’s highly innovative and conceptual looks can be seen on celebrity clients including Kim Petras, Kali Uchis, Mariah Carey, and Paris Hilton, and in publications such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Marie Claire. Oft praised for his innovative use of color and his modern take on beauty, Gilbert’s skills, which include the creation of natural, current, fresh-faced looks, are underscored by his being a licensed esthetician. In 2016, Soliz was appointed Global Makeup Artist for Marc Jacobs Beauty. While there, he was responsible for product development and played a role in global training and education, receiving great acclaim for both. Soliz represents the next generation of makeup artists, known as much for their influence across culture as they are for their signature looks. Soliz is currently represented at The Only Agency.

Kate Harvie is the Executive Editor and Food & Drink Editor for In Step Beauty. She writes for Localeur, for nearly seven years she was the contributing writer for the The Hip Hop Museum, and she is the author of a book, Believe It and Behave It: How to Restart, Reset, and Reframe Your Life.