Selected Hair, Makeup & Transformation Work in Chicago
Different faces. Different rooms. Different reasons for being seen.
The work should never look like it came from the same formula.
Chicago Style Co creates hair, makeup and image direction for private transformations, commercial productions, executives and brides, with each look developed around the person, environment and finished image.
Led by Chicago makeup artist and creative director Ann Marie Weinert, the work combines beauty artistry with more than 20 years of experience in photography, production, performance and visual storytelling.
Signature Makeovers
A transformation should still look like you.
A Signature Makeover is not simply professional makeup followed by photographs.
It is a privately directed experience built around how you want to enter the next part of your life.
Some clients come for a milestone birthday. Some are stepping into greater professional visibility. Some want portraits that finally feel current. Others simply know that something has changed and want their outer image to catch up.
Hair, makeup, wardrobe direction, styling and photography can be considered together so the finished result feels intentional rather than assembled.
The goal is not to turn you into someone else.
It is to make what is already there easier to see.
Signature Makeover experiences begin at $2,500.
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On-Set, Commercial & Editorial
Beauty that understands the camera and the production around it.
On a working set, beautiful makeup is only part of the assignment.
Timing matters. Lighting matters. Continuity matters. The creative brief matters. So does knowing when someone needs more correction, more polish or simply less product.
Chicago Style Co provides on-location hair, makeup and grooming in Chicago for:
- Commercial and branded productions
- Advertising and campaign shoots
- Editorial photography
- Corporate video
- Interviews
- Headshots and portrait days
- Talent and spokesperson preparation
- Men’s grooming
- On-set touchups
- Continuity throughout production
The approach is camera-aware, efficient and collaborative, with an understanding of what needs to happen before talent ever reaches the lens.
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Executive & Corporate
Camera-ready without looking overly made-up.
Executives, founders, speakers and leadership teams often need something different from traditional beauty makeup.
The goal may be credibility on camera. Consistency across a headshot day. A rested, polished appearance before an interview. Grooming before a keynote. Or simply removing the visual distractions that become more obvious under professional lighting.
Chicago Style Co provides thoughtful preparation for individuals and teams appearing in:
- Executive portraits
- Corporate headshots
- Interviews
- Leadership videos
- Conferences
- Panels
- Keynotes
- Media appearances
- Company campaigns and branded content
The finished result should look polished in person and intentional on camera, without becoming the thing people notice first.
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Luxury Bridal Hair & Makeup
Personal wedding beauty, considered as part of the entire image.
A bride is not a category of makeup.
Her face, dress, hair, photography, venue, personal style and the atmosphere of the wedding all belong in the same visual conversation.
Chicago Style Co creates bridal beauty for women who want to recognize themselves in their photographs while still feeling beautifully finished for the significance of the day.
Services may include:
- Bridal hair and makeup
- Wedding-party beauty
- Mothers and family
- Trials and look development
- Additional artists
- Touchups
- Second looks
- Extended wedding-day coverage
The result is meant to feel personal, composed and photograph beautifully from the first portrait through the final hours of the celebration.
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What Connects the Work
A private makeover should not look like corporate makeup.
A CEO preparing for an interview should not be approached like a bride.
An editorial portrait can carry more visual tension than a professional headshot.
A commercial production may require restraint, speed and continuity rather than visible glamour.
The common thread is not one aesthetic.
It is discernment.
Chicago Style Co considers the person, the camera, the environment and what the image ultimately needs to communicate before deciding what beauty should look like.
That often means knowing when to refine.
When to amplify.
When to direct.
And when to leave something beautifully alone.
Beauty With Direction
Chicago Style Co is led by Ann Marie Weinert, Chicago makeup artist and creative director, known professionally as Red Hot Annie and previously through Ann Marie Makeup.
Her work across beauty, photography, production, performance and image-making has created an unusual fluency in how people read on camera, onstage, in photographs and in important rooms.
That experience shapes every part of the process.
Not simply:
What makeup should we do?
But:
What are we creating?
Where will you be seen?
What should the image communicate?
What decisions will make the whole thing stronger?
Find the Right Experience
I want a personal transformation.
Private beauty, styling, creative direction and optional portrait photography for milestones, reinvention and visibility.
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I need hair and makeup for a production.
Commercial, editorial and on-location support for talent, cameras, crews and production schedules.
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I need executive or corporate makeup.
Camera-ready preparation for leadership teams, headshots, interviews, conferences and media appearances.
I am planning my wedding.
Personal bridal hair and makeup with photography-aware preparation and thoughtful wedding-day execution.
When Being Seen Matters
Sometimes the finished image will live on a company website for years.
Sometimes it will become a wedding photograph your family keeps.
Sometimes it is the first portrait of a version of yourself you have only recently begun to recognize.
Different stakes. Different environments. Different beauty.
The job is to understand what the moment requires and prepare you for it exceptionally well.