Mar 10, 2016

Team of SW Florida ladies to compete in Global Beauty Masters – Naples Daily News

By Lance Shearer, Citizen Correspondent

The wait is nearly over. On Thursday, March 17, Global Beauty Masters returns for its second season on the TLC network.

If you are among those that missed the very first season, and perhaps had not heard of the reveal at all, there is a brand-new requirement to grab interested this year. One of the groups of cosmeticians — and there are simply 10 from about the United States, plus an additional seven worldwide groups — is homegrown.

Three Southwest Floridians, Laura Lorusso, Dawn Lowe and Theresa Miulli, joined with each other as the “Madams of Mayhem” to go up versus the very best the globe has actually to offer in producing hairstyles, makeup and nails in the televised competition. The trio, sponsored by their employer, cosmetology school Sunstate Academy in Fort Myers, traveled to Las Vegas for an intensive round of competitions, placing with each other looks for every little thing from…actually, Lorusso is tight-lipped concerning the specifics of the contest, saying the show’s producers earned them authorize not to divulge anything concerning the nature of the competition, or the results. If you’ve heard the saying “just what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” this is one of those situations, until the reveal airs starting Thursday evening.

But judging from season one of Global Beauty Masters, and photos the show’s producers have actually posted, you can easily expect to see some over-the-top looks on some hot fashion models. Lorusso handles the makeup for the Madams of Mayhem team, along with Miulli handling hairstyling, and Lowe, that is head of the nail department at Sunstate, doing the fingernails. The trio “punched their ticket” to Vegas along with a regional succeed last Might at the “Battle of the Strands” beauty competition in Orlando.

There, their triumph sent them to the taping of the Global Beauty Masters, described as the “globe Mug of Beauty,” which will certainly feature a “no-holds-barred display of outrageous hair, outlandish nails and otherworldly makeup” to find out which of the 17 groups will certainly take house the title. Lorusso, a Barron Collier Higher School graduate, need to be all set for any type of challenge, makeup-wise, as one of her specialties is theater makeup, and she made an entire haunted-houseful of ghouls and goblins for the Naples Art Association’s Halloween carnival. In addition to stage makeup, she likewise acts, and writes plays as well, including “Afterlife of the Rich and Famous,” which was developed locally by Let’s Put on a reveal Productions.

Last year, Lorusso said she couldn’t have actually been a lot more surprised by her team’s triumph in Orlando, which gave them the possibility to compete on the TLC honest truth show.

“It truly was pure shock,” she said. “It’s funny, since I enjoy watching the cooking-competition shows on TV, and they constantly grab so emotional, and I’m constantly like, ‘C’mon, pull it together.’ Yet there was so much tension involved that I got emotional, too. As soon as they initially called our name, it was finish shock and happiness and all that enjoyable stuff rolled in to one.”

Lorusso’s teammate, Dawn Lowe, echoed those sentiments.

“It was truly exciting and very emotional at the same time,” said the Southwest Florida native that attended Labelle Higher School. “There truly aren’t words to describe exactly how I felt concerning winning. It was very awesome.”

Theresa Miulli, a Cape Coral Higher School graduate that moved to Southwest Florida from the Chicago area As soon as she was 11, said much the same.

“It was freaking incredible,” she said. “simply very, rather cool. Working along with the various other two ladies is so much fun, and to have actually all our hard job actually pay off is truly incredible.”

Making the triumph even sweeter for the Madams of Mayhem, they said, was the truth that 10 students from Sunstate Academy were in the crowd for the announcement of the winner.

“To see their faces and to hear them screaming for us truly was an amazing feeling,” Lorusso said. “They truly are amazing human beings, and I am so proud and happy to have actually them in our corner.”

Lowe agreed.

“Having our students in the audience simply earned the feeling of winning all that much better,” she said.

Lorusso thanked the Sunstate Academy campus director, Amy Hammond, that she described as “our emotional and creative backbone,” and likewise extended gratitude to owner Greg Jones. “He’s the one that actually wrote the check to send us to the show,” she said.

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Correspondent John Osborne contributed to this report.

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