![]() ![]() “I was still under 21, but I was like, ‘I know what I want to do.’ So I started producing photoshoots. Gloria returned to Detroit, determined to build a portfolio of creative work that would launch her as a serious makeup artist. If you do something and it doesn’t work, maybe you should try looking at it differently and learn from it.” “Failure is an opportunity to learn from something. “To this day, I don’t really believe in failure,” she says. She decided to pursue her dreams outside of school and moved to Florida for a year to reassess her goals. ![]() “I just didn’t understand how you could pick one thing to be for the rest of your life,” she says. Gloria eventually went to art school, but dropped out when faced with picking a major during her second year. She felt most at peace when drawing and painting. “I spent a lot of time alone, playing by myself, with my own imagination, which has definitely, obviously, shaped who I am today,” she says. Some spend years in pursuit of just one of these goals-how can she tackle all five simultaneously? Gloria’s unflinching resolve, once activated, is a heat-seeking missile programed to explore, understand and master whatever challenge she sets for herself.īorn to Sicilian parents in Detroit, Michigan, Gloria is the youngest of five, with much older siblings. At only 30 years old, she’s already an accomplished painter, musician, top Hollywood makeup artist (working with celebrities like Shailene Woodley and Olivia Wilde), founder and editor-in-chief of art magazine The Work, and the creator of her own skincare line, Noto Botanics. "It was actually hard for me to put it out there for others it felt like it was my particular smell and didn't want to share it.until I gave in.Adaptable, disciplined and a true follower of her instinct-LA-based artist and entrepreneur Gloria Noto is a creative ninja, blazing a formidable trail limited only by her limitless imagination. The first was what would eventually become Noto Botanics' Rooted Oil, a smoky fragrance so compelling a friend once texted to see if Noto was at a party so she could come take a whiff. She had already begun developing her own products to use on friends, on set, and on celebrities with whom she'd worked. "ĭuring her years on set, Noto developed a passion for using clean and natural products, but she didn't see herself or her friends reflected in what would be considered wellness goods. I wasn't gonna let tell me I couldn't do it. "There was no question there was no other option. "It was an undeniable fact for me that I would make this happen," she says. In the early 2000s, Noto moved from Detroit to Los Angeles with $500 to her name and started doing makeup wherever she could-working for exposure and practice until she could support herself as a freelance makeup artist. ![]() So, she channeled her artistic impulses into painting other people's faces, learning a whole lot about the industry through trial and error. "I hit a point where I wasn't happy with how I looked without anything on-if I didn't have a bunch of shit on my face, I wouldn't feel pretty in my own skin," she says. But even Noto's goth rebellion started to feel oppressive eventually, so she pivoted to a more natural aesthetic. ![]()
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