MakeUp Artist Genn Shaughnessy's affinity to produce various types of make-up for print, video and stage work demonstrates her amazing eye for detail and her unique ability to think outside the lines of conventional thinking. She has numerous national credits to her name that include People Magazine, Teen People Magazine American Idols Live and Trading Spaces.  

Genn is currently the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for the monthly internet publication, Dark Shadows Magazine. She also owns and operates a very successful consulting business, Dark Shadows Media, that provides makeup and styling services to the production, special event and salon industries. Dark Shadows Media has been in business since 2000 and has served the Upstate New York, New Jersey and metropolitan areas.

She has also had the privilege of having trained under national and international professional make-up artists and photographers and can boast special celebrity clients such as Carrie Underwood, NY Giants Brandon Jacobs, Leslie Segrete and Laurie Smith from Trading Spaces, Constantine Maroulis from American Idol, the entire US Olympic Hockey team and even former New York State Governor Elliot Spitzer.  

Genn is Also working on her first book Makeup Made Simple and will be published by Wolfgang publishing and on shelves Spring 2011.

photo by Dan Doyle