Christine George first started her career assisting celebrity makeup artist Eugenia Weston while attending Newberry School of Cosmetology in 2000. While her craft was evolving in the beauty industry she was soon offered her first Music Video. From then on Christine has worked extensively in the Music Video world beautifying many favorite celebrities, including Mariah Carey, Sting, Enrique Iglesias, and Prince, to name a few. She also works in the commercial industry, and recently worked with Kelly Clarkson. Christine has also worked for LATHER Beauty Lounge, one of Los Angelesês hippest premier salons, and in 2004 Christine embarked on a cross country tour as Key Tour Stylist and Makeup Artist for one of FOXês popular reality makeover series, teaching the public how to apply makeup. Christine currently runs and operates her own beauty studio, in Los Angeles while continuing her work in the beauty and music video industries, and is now an instructor at EI, training the next generation of makeup artists.

Kasey began her career in makeup over 15 years ago, working as a freelance artist for cosmetic companies that included Lancôme, Chanel and Prescriptives; she also held management positions for Bobbi Brown, Perscriptives, and MAC.  Kasey has had a lucrative makeup career in television, film, print media and music videos as well.  Some of her clients include Mandy Moore, Yamaha, Sony Music, Nickelodeon, Las Vegas magazine, Budweiser, George Lopez, Persia White, New Yorker Magazine, Capitol Records, IBM, Kia Cars and Telemundo.  Kasey is also a successful jazz vocalist and teaches a live performance makeup course at EI for vocal students from MI (Musicians Institute).

Rich Knight a California native from San Jose, Rich is a special effects makeup artist, who is also a prop and puppet maker.  His film work includes character development in the areas of aging, horror, injury simulation, gore, and fantasy, hair work, working effects, bleeding effects, oozing effects, and melting effects.   He is a 1993 graduate of the Institute of Studio Makeup.  His numerous production credits include: 100 Million BC, Beowulf,' X-Men 3, The Omen 666, Poseidon, Seraphim Falls, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Alias, House, M.D., Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, and X-Files.  In addition to teaching at EI, Rich has lectured on character makeup for theatre and film at the South Coast Repertory Theatre, served as an instructor at the Cinema Makeup School in SPFX & Prosthetics, and teaches Intro to Makeup for Film and Video at the San Diego Media Arts Center.

Arlene's initial training in the film industry began in film and television production, and she earned a B.A. in Communications from California State University at Fullerton. For two years, she worked in production before discovering makeup artistry as her career. Needing more specialized training, she enrolled at Studio Makeup Academy in Los Angeles and studied Beauty and Special Effects makeup. Arlene has worked as a freelance makeup artist for the past six years on a variety of projects ranging from television commercials to high fashion runway shows. Her client list includes: The Style Channel, Fox, The SAG Awards and Coca-Cola. Her outstanding makeup applications for print work have been seen in Vanity Fair, Womenês Wear Daily, GQ, Entertainment Weekly and Violet Magazines. In addition to her experience as a makeup artist, Arlene is also a licensed esthetician. Her experience also includes teaching, and she has joined the EI team teaching High Fashion Photographic and Runway Makeup.

A graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a science degree in industrial design, George specializes in sculpting, mold-making, painting, animatronics, puppetry, prop casting, life-casting, suit fabrication, dental prosthetics and false eyes. George is not only well versed in lab work, but does on-set applications of his prosthetic pieces. His most recent film work includes The Adventures of Umbweki (gorilla suit fabrication and special effects puppeteer), Fear House, Destruction Kings, and The Prince, the Pimp, the Jackel and the Spayed. George has joined the EI SFX Department, and will be enhancing all aspects of the SFX course offerings.

Tony Valdés graduated from the University of Puerto Rico where he earned a bachelors in theater. He moved to New York City and studied makeup at the Bob Kelly Studio. He then worked for fourteen years as a makeup artist for numerous theatrical productions, and for a variety of television shows, including work at the Telemundo Network. In 1999 he moved to Los Angeles and worked for CNN Entertainment Spanish Edition, for fashion shoots for Sears, Co., and served as a makeup artist and hairdresser for numerous awards shows including the Oscars and the Grammy's. Mr. Valdés has provided his expertise in numerous films, including a many independent and short films, including If Tomorrow Comes, Viva, The Incubus, Glass Tops, and The Hypnotist. In addition to his teaching and administrative duties at EI, Tony works as the senior makeup artist for Wayne Foster Entertainment.