We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Darla Wigley. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Darla below.
Darla, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. So, let’s start with a hypothetical – what would you change about the educational system?
To better prepare students for what they face going into a makeup career in film and television the schools should teach organizational skills, efficient time management and color theory.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
A ball of fire with a no give up attitude. Darla Wigley is a self-taught, highly motivated makeup artist For Film and television, local union 798 member as well as an educator with over 25 years of experience in the field of special makeup effects and beauty. Darla runs a full service SFX studio for film and television. Everything from makeup to prosthetics, her studio can crank it out. She started her love for makeup so many years ago in Seattle Washington with her husband by her side and has never looked back. Hailing from Chickamuaga Ga, Darla is constantly working on her craft. With a full working studio and years of knowledge it keeps her motivated for her clients. Darla not only creates amazing things, but she also teaches others the craft. She is not short on teaching her students that makeup is more than just colors on the skin. It’s a skilled adventure into fantasy, horror and beauty. A true makeup artist is not someone that does makeup. A skilled makeup artist is one that lives within their craft. some of her credits include Zombie land 2 Double tape, Ms. Marvel, Raising Dion Season 2, Doom Patrol, First kills season 1., Shaft, Chrisley knows best and many others.
Does your business have multiple or supplementary revenue streams (like a ATM machine at a barbershop, etc)?
As my business grew just creating my prosthetics line for the film and television industry didn’t always keep us going. Branching out to the medical industry, health and safety such as fire departments, hospitals and the military for moulage training, the theater and haunt industry kept our little engine going and we continue to branch out to new areas such as the gaming industry with our company’s unique skill set, we find so many ways to teach and help our clints.
We’d love to hear about you met your business partner.
My confounder, business partner and Husband Terry Wigley is a key player in everything we do for our business. He is the contract maker, the payroll supervisor, IT, technical side of everything WigleyFX. He always said Darla she is the creative side, and I am the technical. I literally met him at the end of a sword When I became a member of an amazing live steel sword fighting team in Seattle Wa. He was my fight instructor. It’s been 26 years of fun an adventure for us both in our marriage and in our business and it just keeps getting better.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.wigleyfx.com
- Instagram: wigleyfx
- Facebook: wigleyfx
Image Credits
Darla Wigley