CELEBRITY MAKE-UP ARTIST RIKU CAMPO SHARES HIS WORLD AND GIVES TIPS TO WOMEN AGED 40 AND ABOVE


Tuesday December 1, 2020


By: Janet Susan R. Nepales On and Off the Red Carpet   Riku Campo is the kind of person who is easy to warm up to. He is down-to-earth, charming, and funny. The 50-year-old Finnish-born make-up artist is also a celebrity in his own right, as he does the make-up of some of Hollywood’s A-listers; from Anne Hathaway to Gwyneth Paltrow to Cindy Crawford. Campo recently came out with a make-up book titled “I Am Beauty”, with photographs by Samantha Rapp and featuring women age 40 and over. One of the women he featured was Filipina performance artist and ballerina Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, 61. Born in Manila, she was the youngest member of Ballet Philippines. She came to New York City in 1979 and received scholarships to The Joffrey Ballet School, The Graham School, and The Ailey School. Married to Robert Z. Dobrish, a prominent matrimonial attorney in Manhattan, Dobrish gamely posed for Campo’s book as he painted his make-up magic on her. So how did he meet her and what made him decide to include her in his book? “One of my clients, this make-up artist, is adept at sportswear, so they have ‘Athleta’,” he narrated. “They had this beautiful dancer who was modeling. I asked what she had studied in New York and she replied that her teacher was Elizabeth Roxas. I was already planning my book, so I started casting it. And I was like, ‘Oh, wonderful, because I am looking for a dancer or some kind of performance artist for my book.’ She showed me a picture of her and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I want her in my book.’ So she came on Instagram and we started talking. When we met, we just clicked. She is so wonderful and has...... Read more on Full Issue!



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