Melissa Hartzel
Make-up & Hair Artist
Beauty & Skincare Expert
I am a professional make-up/hair artist, trained beauty therapist, skin care specialist and beauty expert. In addition to my private clients, I work across all areas of the media covering fashion, lifestyle, print, television and film. I am very passionate about my work and have enjoyed an exciting career to date.
Having attended the Italia Conti theatre school as a child, I am very comfortable in front of the camera and enjoy creating beauty content and making appearances on TV and at events as a make-up/beauty expert.
I enjoyed being a part of the hit Channel 4 consumer series 'Shop Secrets Tricks of the Trade', in which I went undercover in an Essex beauty salon to investigate beauty industry scams. Other on screen credits include guest presenting beauty segments on some of the UK's favourite shopping channels, as well as having the incredible opportunity of going undercover for E4 as a massage therapist in the hidden camera comedy prank show 'iCon'. I have also worked as a spokesperson for brands such as Rimmel, NYX and Makebelieve and worked alongside Ed Sheeran playing a parody of myself and the presenting work I do, in his music video 'Anti Social'.
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Member of the Beauty Guild and a qualified make-up and beauty tutor and lecturer (AET/PTTLS qualified), with public liability insurance.
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PREVIOUS CLIENTS INCLUDE: Fox TV, TMZ, Rimmel London, Betty TV, BBC, Channel 4, Health & Fitness, That's Life, Take A Break, Look, Bid TV, Price Drop TV, Ideal World, NHS, Mentorn Films, Hasbro, Hewlett Packard, PLAY.com, Boots, Sunday Publishing, Web Videos Ltd, Miss England, Captiva, The Wedding Show, Cyberjammies, Hunkenmoller, Eclectic Motion Media, In Design, Pictures Inc, iStockphoto, Vanity Studios, Impact Models, Red Gate Gallery, VC Media, E.B.C, Miss Top Model, Beauty Call, Fresh Academy, British Hairdressing Awards, Water Aid, Epic Trust and Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
I have been working with The Chelsea Laboratory to develop Firm & Restore Formula along with a full range of skin care products, which are making exciting waves in the beauty industry and I am very proud of their success.