Fay­ola Fras­er

With more than 40 years in the beau­ty in­dus­try, Ephraim Hunte-De La Chevrotiere is a make­up gu­ru, ed­u­ca­tor, pho­tog­ra­ph­er, and artist who has changed the face of beau­ty lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere has ded­i­cat­ed his life to hon­ing the craft of make­up art, and along the way has blessed the faces of many. As one of the few males in a fe­male-dom­i­nat­ed in­dus­try, his ded­i­ca­tion to his craft and con­sis­tent ex­cel­lence has gar­nered the trust of even high-pro­file per­form­ers and beau­ty queens, name­ly Whit­ney Hous­ton, Wendy Fitzwilliam, De­stra Gar­cia and Denyse Plum­mer.

In 1973, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere left T&T to ini­tial­ly pur­sue a ca­reer in elec­tron­ic en­gi­neer­ing in New York. His in­ter­ests took an un­ex­pect­ed turn up­on be­ing in­vit­ed to the In­ter­na­tion­al Beau­ty Trade Show in New York. Mes­mer­ized al­most in­stant­ly by the glitz, glam­our and acute skill of the make­up artists and hair­styl­ists present, he be­gan to con­cep­tu­al­ize try­ing his hand at make­up artistry. Even­tu­al­ly, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere elect­ed to pur­sue make­up cours­es, “and nev­er turned back.”

In­ter­est­ing­ly enough, it was not on­ly the beau­ty of the make­up world that ig­nit­ed his in­ter­est, but al­so the busi­ness be­hind make­up. Hunte-De La Chevrotiere was “drawn com­plete­ly to the busi­ness as­pect of re­al­iz­ing a per­son­al­ized cos­met­ic line with my own la­bel.” He al­so saw the great val­ue po­ten­tial of get­ting in­volved in the world of cos­met­ics.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere was a vi­sion­ary, as the fe­male beau­ty in­dus­try has been renowned as re­silient even through glob­al crises, and is one of the most con­sis­tent rev­enue gen­er­a­tors in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. Aside from the clear op­por­tu­ni­ties of the in­dus­try, how­ev­er, he saw an op­por­tu­ni­ty to be able to ex­press his pas­sion for cre­ativ­i­ty and artistry which was al­ways at his core. He took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to change course from en­gi­neer­ing, and dive in­to this field of make­up, dis­play­ing his art on the blank can­vas­es of faces.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere quick­ly rose to in­ter­na­tion­al ac­claim with the ex­pert strokes of his brush, be­ing pub­lished in over 25 mag­a­zines in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, in­clud­ing Harp­er’s Bazaar, Cos­mopoli­tan, So­phis­ti­cate’s Black Hair, Essence and Every­body’s Mag­a­zine. In the 1980’s and 1990’s in New York, his com­pa­ny Ephraim Hunte Pro­duc­tions Inc. was close­ly in­volved in the beau­ty as­pects of high-end pre­sen­ta­tions fea­tur­ing fash­ions of 7th Av­enue de­sign­ers.

Not lim­it­ing him­self to the path tra­di­tion­al­ly trod­den in North Amer­i­ca, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere spent years learn­ing, grow­ing, and gain­ing fresh per­spec­tives in the in­dus­try work­ing in West African coun­tries, in­clud­ing Mali, Ghana and Burk­i­na Fa­so. Meet­ing with and work­ing with the late Whit­ney Hous­ton is al­so a stand­out mo­ment of his ca­reer, and he de­scribes his in­volve­ment with some of the most beau­ti­ful world-class su­per­mod­els, Bev­er­ly John­son, Tyra Banks and Bil­lie Blair as “epic”.

Choos­ing a non-tra­di­tion­al ca­reer path, and a fe­male-dom­i­nat­ed one, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere faced the chal­lenges of be­ing on the re­ceiv­ing end of skep­ti­cisms, both by fel­low in­dus­try pro­fes­sion­als and oth­ers. How­ev­er, he has nev­er let the skep­ti­cism both­er him.

“I was al­ways about cre­at­ing the best work that I could,” he said. “For me, it was all about at­ten­tion to de­tail and per­fec­tion.”

Lead­ing with this pas­sion, he has been able to rise above any neg­a­tiv­i­ty thrown his way and be count­ed among the best in the field.

Re­ceiv­ing an award from the Ko­dak com­pa­ny in 1986, and the Mas­ter Clas­sic Award in Make­up Artistry in 2012, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere’s com­mit­ment to cre­at­ing flaw­less looks was cel­e­brat­ed and rec­og­nized. Even af­ter decades, he con­tin­ues to work as a make­up artist and nev­er stops learn­ing and evolv­ing as the in­dus­try changes.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere be­gan shar­ing his wealth of ex­per­tise with bud­ding make­up artists in 2002, open­ing Ephraim Hunte In­ter­na­tion­al Make­up Acad­e­my in Diego Mar­tin.

Known wide­ly as the ‘Make­up Gu­ru’, he has per­formed re­search, de­vel­oped new the­o­ret­i­cal foun­da­tions of beau­ty and make­up, and cre­at­ed course cur­ricu­lum for beau­ty ed­u­ca­tion. As an ed­u­ca­tor, he seeks to help women bet­ter un­der­stand Beau­ty Make­up ver­sus Make­up Trends. He has trained many well-known make­up artists, and is con­tribut­ing to the repos­i­to­ry of lo­cal knowl­edge in the field by launch­ing three books in 2024. In June 2024, his first book, “A Guide to Beau­ty Make­up – Nat­ur­al Ba­sic to Glam” will be re­leased.

For beau­ty be­gin­ners, like the au­thor of this ar­ti­cle, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere has one sim­ple tip. The beau­ty of make­up is in its mim­ic­k­ing of flaw­less skin and in the cre­ation of beau­ti­ful, bal­anced sym­me­try. There­fore, car­ing for and pre­serv­ing your skin to the best of your abil­i­ty helps you achieve sim­ple and stun­ning looks, as lit­tle foun­da­tion is need­ed. He en­cour­ages women to care for their skin as a base­line to their beau­ty jour­ney, and to strive to re­search and un­der­stand the ba­sics of make­up to guide them in its ap­pli­ca­tion.

On In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day, a cor­ner­stone in the fe­male beau­ty in­dus­try, Ephraim Hunte-De La Chevrotiere, must be rec­og­nized and cel­e­brat­ed. He has ded­i­cat­ed his life to mak­ing women feel beau­ti­ful and ra­di­ant, with his de­vo­tion to cre­at­ing ex­quis­ite looks. Even women who have skin con­di­tions, such as vi­tili­go or ex­ten­sive skin mar­ring are able to go to him for his mag­i­cal wave of his brush, to make them feel even more gor­geous and spe­cial than they al­ready are.

Con­tin­u­ing to work, re­search and teach in the in­dus­try, his con­tri­bu­tions to the field of beau­ty in T&T are a bedrock and in­deed a cat­alyt­ic spring for new and emerg­ing make­up artists.is a make­up gu­ru, ed­u­ca­tor, pho­tog­ra­ph­er, and artist who has changed the face of beau­ty lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere has ded­i­cat­ed his life to hon­ing the craft of make­up art, and along the way has blessed the faces of many. As one of the few males in a fe­male-dom­i­nat­ed in­dus­try, his ded­i­ca­tion to his craft and con­sis­tent ex­cel­lence has gar­nered the trust of even high-pro­file per­form­ers and beau­ty queens, name­ly Whit­ney Hous­ton, Wendy Fitzwilliam, De­stra Gar­cia and Denyse Plum­mer.

In 1973, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere left T&T to ini­tial­ly pur­sue a ca­reer in elec­tron­ic en­gi­neer­ing in New York. His in­ter­ests took an un­ex­pect­ed turn up­on be­ing in­vit­ed to the In­ter­na­tion­al Beau­ty Trade Show in New York. Mes­mer­ized al­most in­stant­ly by the glitz, glam­our and acute skill of the make­up artists and hair­styl­ists present, he be­gan to con­cep­tu­al­ize try­ing his hand at make­up artistry. Even­tu­al­ly, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere elect­ed to pur­sue make­up cours­es, “and nev­er turned back.”

In­ter­est­ing­ly enough, it was not on­ly the beau­ty of the make­up world that ig­nit­ed his in­ter­est, but al­so the busi­ness be­hind make­up. Hunte-De La Chevrotiere was “drawn com­plete­ly to the busi­ness as­pect of re­al­iz­ing a per­son­al­ized cos­met­ic line with my own la­bel.” He al­so saw the great val­ue po­ten­tial of get­ting in­volved in the world of cos­met­ics.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere was a vi­sion­ary, as the fe­male beau­ty in­dus­try has been renowned as re­silient even through glob­al crises, and is one of the most con­sis­tent rev­enue gen­er­a­tors in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. Aside from the clear op­por­tu­ni­ties of the in­dus­try, how­ev­er, he saw an op­por­tu­ni­ty to be able to ex­press his pas­sion for cre­ativ­i­ty and artistry which was al­ways at his core. He took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to change course from en­gi­neer­ing, and dive in­to this field of make­up, dis­play­ing his art on the blank can­vas­es of faces.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere quick­ly rose to in­ter­na­tion­al ac­claim with the ex­pert strokes of his brush, be­ing pub­lished in over 25 mag­a­zines in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, in­clud­ing Harp­er’s Bazaar, Cos­mopoli­tan, So­phis­ti­cate’s Black Hair, Essence and Every­body’s Mag­a­zine. In the 1980’s and 1990’s in New York, his com­pa­ny Ephraim Hunte Pro­duc­tions Inc. was close­ly in­volved in the beau­ty as­pects of high-end pre­sen­ta­tions fea­tur­ing fash­ions of 7th Av­enue de­sign­ers.

Not lim­it­ing him­self to the path tra­di­tion­al­ly trod­den in North Amer­i­ca, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere spent years learn­ing, grow­ing, and gain­ing fresh per­spec­tives in the in­dus­try work­ing in West African coun­tries, in­clud­ing Mali, Ghana and Burk­i­na Fa­so. Meet­ing with and work­ing with the late Whit­ney Hous­ton is al­so a stand­out mo­ment of his ca­reer, and he de­scribes his in­volve­ment with some of the most beau­ti­ful world-class su­per­mod­els, Bev­er­ly John­son, Tyra Banks and Bil­lie Blair as “epic”.

Choos­ing a non-tra­di­tion­al ca­reer path, and a fe­male-dom­i­nat­ed one, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere faced the chal­lenges of be­ing on the re­ceiv­ing end of skep­ti­cisms, both by fel­low in­dus­try pro­fes­sion­als and oth­ers. How­ev­er, he has nev­er let the skep­ti­cism both­er him.

“I was al­ways about cre­at­ing the best work that I could,” he said. “For me, it was all about at­ten­tion to de­tail and per­fec­tion.”

Lead­ing with this pas­sion, he has been able to rise above any neg­a­tiv­i­ty thrown his way and be count­ed among the best in the field.

Re­ceiv­ing an award from the Ko­dak com­pa­ny in 1986, and the Mas­ter Clas­sic Award in Make­up Artistry in 2012, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere’s com­mit­ment to cre­at­ing flaw­less looks was cel­e­brat­ed and rec­og­nized. Even af­ter decades, he con­tin­ues to work as a make­up artist and nev­er stops learn­ing and evolv­ing as the in­dus­try changes.

Hunte-De La Chevrotiere be­gan shar­ing his wealth of ex­per­tise with bud­ding make­up artists in 2002, open­ing Ephraim Hunte In­ter­na­tion­al Make­up Acad­e­my in Diego Mar­tin.

Known wide­ly as the ‘Make­up Gu­ru’, he has per­formed re­search, de­vel­oped new the­o­ret­i­cal foun­da­tions of beau­ty and make­up, and cre­at­ed course cur­ricu­lum for beau­ty ed­u­ca­tion. As an ed­u­ca­tor, he seeks to help women bet­ter un­der­stand Beau­ty Make­up ver­sus Make­up Trends. He has trained many well-known make­up artists, and is con­tribut­ing to the repos­i­to­ry of lo­cal knowl­edge in the field by launch­ing three books in 2024. In June 2024, his first book, “A Guide to Beau­ty Make­up – Nat­ur­al Ba­sic to Glam” will be re­leased.

For beau­ty be­gin­ners, like the au­thor of this ar­ti­cle, Hunte-De La Chevrotiere has one sim­ple tip. The beau­ty of make­up is in its mim­ic­k­ing of flaw­less skin and in the cre­ation of beau­ti­ful, bal­anced sym­me­try. There­fore, car­ing for and pre­serv­ing your skin to the best of your abil­i­ty helps you achieve sim­ple and stun­ning looks, as lit­tle foun­da­tion is need­ed. He en­cour­ages women to care for their skin as a base­line to their beau­ty jour­ney, and to strive to re­search and un­der­stand the ba­sics of make­up to guide them in its ap­pli­ca­tion.

On In­ter­na­tion­al Men’s Day, a cor­ner­stone in the fe­male beau­ty in­dus­try, Ephraim Hunte-De La Chevrotiere, must be rec­og­nized and cel­e­brat­ed. He has ded­i­cat­ed his life to mak­ing women feel beau­ti­ful and ra­di­ant, with his de­vo­tion to cre­at­ing ex­quis­ite looks. Even women who have skin con­di­tions, such as vi­tili­go or ex­ten­sive skin mar­ring are able to go to him for his mag­i­cal wave of his brush, to make them feel even more gor­geous and spe­cial than they al­ready are.

Con­tin­u­ing to work, re­search and teach in the in­dus­try, his con­tri­bu­tions to the field of beau­ty in T&T are a bedrock and in­deed a cat­alyt­ic spring for new and emerg­ing make­up artists.