Makeup has always been more than pigment to me. It is a language of transformation and a way to shift a face, a mood, a story.

Long before I ever held a makeup brush professionally, I was a painter. For years, brushes were my first instruments of obsession. I collected them, studied them, obsessed over their shapes, their fibers, their responses to pressure. I learned early that a brush is not just a tool! It’s an extension of the hand, a conductor of intention.

When I transitioned from painting into beauty, I carried that same obsession with me. Fifteen years ago, even before my artistry became a career, I was hunting for real hair brushes, the kind artists used for blending oils, shading portraits, dissolving edges. They performed in ways synthetic brushes never could. They moved differently, breathed differently, created texture that felt alive. That early love never left me.

Throughout my career, countless photo shoots, creative experiments, and countless hours spent perfecting skin and shadow.. one truth kept repeating itself: Brushes shape the outcome before the makeup even begins.

The wrong brush can interrupt the story. The right brush can elevate it into something cinematic.

Fatal Tools® was born from that realization and from a gap I kept encountering in the industry. I wanted brushes that felt intentional, sculptural, precise. Brushes that performed the way my painter’s tools once did. Brushes that matched the worlds I built in my imagery: dark, glossy, ritualistic, refined.

I could have chosen something safe, but I didn’t... I followed instinct.. the same instinct I’ve carried since childhood, and chose real natural bristles, shaped with clarity and crafted for performance.

I chose texture, not a trend. I chose blending that feels alive, not manufactured. I chose to build the brushes I was hunting for my entire life.

The signature fatal red bristles came from another long-held vision: a symbol of identity and intensity of my universe. They don’t just dye the brush.. they give it presence and it becomes part of the story.

Fatal Tools® is, in many ways, my own cinematic universe of brushes. My MCU of beauty tools. A world built with its own lore, its own rituals, its own visual language. Something outside the beauty market. Something that stands on its own.