For former model Carola Gonzalez, a career in makeup happened by accident. “I didn’t understand why I always looked worse after getting my makeup done [before photo shoots], so I decided to start doing it myself,” she says. Carola used Kevyn Aucoin’s Making Faces as her beauty textbook and the industry took notice of her natural talent. Before long her agency began to receive booking requests for her as an artist, too. When it came time to select her main focus the answer was easy. “Doing makeup quiets my mind, and I’m just there, present,” she says. “That’s how I know I’m meant to be doing exactly what I’m doing.” Now Carola is Kerry Washington’s go-to artist and works with actresses like Olivia Wilde, January Jones, Rashida Jones, and Jamie Kling.