Jennifer Aspinall is known for Mad TV (1995), Westworld (2016) and Pam & Tommy (2022).
Emmy Award and Hollywood Make-up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award Winner, Jennifer Aspinall currently heads the Special Make up Department for HBO’s award-winning show “Westworld”.
Jennifer began her career at the age of 12, working for dinner theaters in Philadelphia, PA. At 18, looking to expand her opportunities she moved to New York City. In 1996, Quincy Jones and Fox TV brought Jennifer to Los Angeles to head up the Make-up Dept for a then new show, Mad TV. She is currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
Jennifer’s creativity and ability to adapt has allowed her to work in many mediums within the make-up industry. Over her 45-year career, she has designed and executed make up and make up effects for Television, Film, Print and Theater.
Her experience spans decades and includes doing make up for everything from fashion billboards for Times Square, straight make up for folks like The Rolling Stones, to designing Broadway shows such as “Victor/Victoria” with Julie Andrews, to heading departments and designing make up effects for long running sketch shows such as Saturday Night Live and Mad tv, to creating character make ups for award winning performers Vanessa Redgrave, David Bowie, Alex Borstein, to doing creature make up effects for movies like “Star Trek”, “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Captain Marvel”. She also worked on “Spookies”, the OG “Toxic Avenger” and “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”.
Jennifer is an Emmy winner with 23 Emmy Nominations. She has 6 Hollywood Make-up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Awards with 8 Nominations, and an Ace Award Nomination. Jenifer has been featured in numerous magazines, including The Hollywood Reporter, Emmy Magazine, and Time, as well as make up centric Magazines like Fangoria and Make-up Artist Magazine. She has been recently featured in 2 books: The Leading Ladies of Make-up Effects and Monster Squad.
In addition to doing make up and make up effects, Ms. Aspinall enjoys creating with her companies Skin Saver, LLC. and Human Vases.
In 2013, Jennifer teamed up with RDL International Inc., a medically based dermatological company, to create a new, revolutionary skin protection lotion, Skin Saver Barrier Lotion. Skin Saver Barrier Lotion has become an industry standard and can be found in make-up kits around the world.
Jennifer also travels the world with Floral designer, Alison Franchi, creating Living Art instillations for their company Human Vases. The Human Vase is an original art concept in which a live model is adorned with layers of body paint, jewels, and a brilliant display of perfectly manipulated live flowers and organic materials. Their Human Vases have been seen on the red carpets of Hollywood, at celebrity birthday parties and events, and in the jungles of Indonesia and Africa.
