Scarlett Ballantyne has always been in love with all things to do with fashion and beauty. At her Eighth grade graduation, she named her Ambition as a Fashion Designer, but her Peers voted her Probable Destination to be “her own best Customer!”. With experience in colour, design and more recently, fashion and modeling, Scarlett has grown an impressive portfolio and an ability to recognize and carry out each client’s needs.
Her history in the make-up industry is varied and continues to grow with new experiences every day. Scarlett studied both Interior Design and Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba and holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Interior Design.
For many years, she was employed as a colour expert and interior designer. She designed spaces, wrote magazine articles, conducted seminars for both design professionals and consumers, and tracked colour forecasts and trends around the world. Over the past 10 years, Scarlett has been featured as a guest expert on many TV shows across Canada, making regular appearances on CityTV’s CityLine.
It was working with the many makeup artists on various TV sets and the makeup boutiques she visited around the world that inspired her to take her colour expertise in a new direction. In 2007, Scarlett created the company Beautilicious, a makeup boutique and team of professional makeup artists. Through Beautilicious, she met and mentored under a fabulous group of artists and was also introduced to many entreprenuerial woman, including a local representative from Stella & Dot.
Scarlett is now working as an independent consultant for Stella & Dot, as well as continuing to thrive with makeup, hair and growing into styling and modeling. It was the combination of all of fabulous these services under one umbrella that organically grew into a new company, Scarlett Ballantyne ltd.