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Wayne grad Rachael Ray’s makeup artist
Kim White broke her dad’s rule about no makeup when she was a kid and in retrospect, that might have been a good thing.
“What I understand now that I didn’t know then is that the first thing she would do when she got to school was rush to the bathroom and put makeup on,” Jon Henri Ball of Huber Heights said. “The last thing she did at the end of the day was go to the bathoom to take it off.”
Ball said the Wayne High School graduate would have been in big trouble if he would have discover her love affair with mascara, lipstick and eyeliner back then. Now he could not be prouder.
“I get to see her work when ever I look at Rachael Ray,” Ball, who has a financial services business, said.
White, a University of Dayton grad, has been a freelance makeup artist for Ray for about three years.
With peppy celebrity’s active schedule - not only does Ray hosts a talk show but she also has cooking programs on the Food Network - White is kept hopping. She has traveled with Ray around country and world. Her favor stops have included Sydney Australia and Provence, France.
White said she constantly seeks ways to update Ray’s look.
“My basic goal with Rachael is to keep her fresh and approachable,” said White, who left the Dayton area in 2004 and had a brief pit stop in Miami before jetting off to New York. “ I try to use colors that are warm and light.”
Ray favors the color orange and White, a former model, incorporates that into the look. The color is always there be it in the form of orange blushes or peach lipsticks and shiny gloss.
“The set is perky and fun and relaxed,” White said. “I try to mirror that.”
The mother of one recently launched the upbeat blog Do I Have Lipstick on My Teeth. The site feature product reviews and a segment called “Mugshot Mondays” in which White gives makeovers to random people and explains her approach.
White, who hope to eventually launch a cosmetics line, recalled fondly the days she was the girl in too much makeup.
She says she picked up a love of fashion and flare from her grandmother, Ludia Goldsby of Huber Heights.
“I always thought she was very chic and I wanted to emulate that,” White recalled. “I was always girly-girl and I never shook that.”
Read more about White in the Dayton Daily New’s Life section on Tuesday, November 3.
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By flipper
October 28, 2009 10:47 AM | Link to this
Why is it that Rachel Ray or any other TV personality cannot put on their own makeup? She always makes it out that she is a down to earth girl/woman. That being the case, do it yourself. Does she have a person to help get dressed as well?
By WHAT?
October 28, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this
Get real! Rachael Ray is an entertainer and entertainers need help from professionals.
By Daaaaa
October 28, 2009 1:08 PM | Link to this
Ahhh… Flipper… that was a pretty ignorant comment. It has to do with how the tv translates the image from the studio to your home tv screen. Makeup for tv is usually more intense than what she might wear normally. Hmmm…. whatever.
By DUH
October 28, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this
Flipper, she is a great cook and great entertainer not a makeup artist. And She is always expected to look her best. Don’t know about you but some days I sure don’t feel like doing that.
By R J..Miamisburg, Oh
October 28, 2009 4:18 PM | Link to this
What the DDN TV person, should do, is to list all the Dayton Born people in LA working in TV or Movies or cable, Indy movies or doing internet or youtube stuff.. I mean Kettering Medical Center Born, Mike McKiddy, has been on CBS COld Case, Grew up and went to school in Springboro and them moved to Detroit when his Dad transfered to the UAW HQ. Lives in LA doing well there. SO how come more Dayton Born not getting the PR on here. Lots of people from Dayton doing stuff in LA this way.
By TB Wayne Grad
October 28, 2009 5:50 PM | Link to this
Kim That is so Awesome!! Congrats!! Yes I remember the Makeup WhenI would see you in the breezeways!!!! I’m so happy it paid off for you! Enjoy!!!! May you continue to be blessed!!!!!
By Wildwood Flower
October 28, 2009 9:06 PM | Link to this
Great article, looking forward to the longer on on 3 Nov. Kim is obviously fantastically good at what she does. It’s also a pleasure to see a a story putting Wayne HS in a positive light.
By Julie
October 29, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this
It is so great to see another Wayne High School student succeed!