A funeral makeup artist prepares the dead for viewing by the living during an open-casket funeral. The intent is to make the deceased appear as they did in life. Workers who cosmeticize the ...

“I didn’t have a license to embalm so I did makeup, dress, and casket.” She’s worked there since graduating from mortuary school. Even after eight years in the industry, makeup and hair is ...

Most funeral homes have a dedicated mortuary cosmetologist on staff to apply makeup and style the hair of the deceased . Sometimes called desairologists, their practice can be a way to honor ...

Heather Taylor was a mortuary makeup artist who gained 500,000 TikTok followers by sharing her work. Taylor posted videos about going to mortuary school and how makeup is applied on the dead.

Kim “rationalized that the ‘altered appearance’ was attributable to the embalming process and application of heavy mortuary makeup, fake hair and/or some type of filler such as Botox,” the ...