Funeral services for the celebrity makeup artist Carmon Veronica Springs will be held on Thursday at the Inglewood Park Grace Chapel in Los Angeles.
Springs, 70, died on June 18 at her home in Bahia, Brazil, after suffering a fall following a series of illnesses, according to her friend Ty-Ron Mayes, a celebrity stylist and editor of The Untitled Magazine. The formal announcement of her death had not been made earlier due to an autopsy and the logistics of repatriation of her body to the U.S.
The Wisconsin-born Springs spent most of her childhood in Los Angeles, where she also embarked on her self-taught career. An artist at heart and a prodigious reader, Springs got her start after being introduced and then mentored by the makeup artist Fran Cooper, who has worked with top-tier talent like Diana Ross, Shakira, Janet Jackson and the late Tina Turner. Despite that roster, Cooper was not as widely known as peers like the late Kevyn Aucoin.
The multilingual and arts-loving Springs would go on to have her own celebrity-studded career that spanned more than 40 years in the fashion and beauty industry. As for what contributed to Springs’ talent, Mayes said Friday, “It was God-given. She had something that you could not capture in a school. Her ability to knock out a book was incredible. She also had a sharp eye and an ear for details, including the nuances and roots of languages and how they link from one to another.”
Springs was enthralled by the movies of the ’50s while growing up. She later translated some of the elegance and beauty from that time into her work as a celebrity makeup artist. Film and music were recurring points of reference for her work, whether that be the 1969 flick “Sweet Charity” or the ultra-star power of Diana Ross and The Supremes. That love for Ross and her group stemmed from “what they meant to the Black community” and to Springs, as a girl. So much so that when Springs had a chance encounter with…
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