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Faces: Esthetician embraces her inner Picasso
by Meryn Fluker
Prior Lake American July 24, 2011 06:00 AM
You may not know Meg Hume’s face, but you’ve probably seen her work.
The licensed esthetician has provided her face painting skills at various area events, including last year’s Lakefront Days. Since spring, she’s been doing airbrush makeup and Micro Sonic Infusion treatments at her salon, Saving Face LLC, in Burnsville, MN. It’s been a long trip to Burnsville for the Inver Grove Heights native. At age 12 she moved to Tennessee, which she considers her home, where she eventually graduated high school. After a year of college, she decided to join the Navy.
“It was really just a whim,” Hume says. “I knew I wanted to travel. I chose the Navy because I knew that no matter where I went I’d be close to a beach.”
Hume ended up spending four years serving her country as a master at arms in the Navy. She went all over, she says, and spent two of those four years stationed in Guam. She then ended up in Arizona doing makeup for a modeling agency and at fashion shows. The work was right in line with one of her childhood memories.
“What’s so funny is recently I was looking through a photo album and I was in kindergarten in some show, and I have lipstick on,” Hume says. “I thought that was so funny. I think I was born with makeup on.”
She says a desire to be more credible led her back to Minnesota, where members of her family lived, so she could earn her esthetician license. While here, she met her now husband Scott. The couple has been together for six years. They have two children, son Aidan, age 4, and daughter Sophia, who just turned 3.
After living in lush places such as Guam and warm weather havens Arizona and Tennessee, moving back north was a tough adjustment for Hume.
“Terrible” is how she describes getting used to Minnesotan weather.
“I was really angry that first winter,” Hume says.
Hume now has her esthetician’s license and is a regional sales manager for Beautiful Image, a company that sells machines for Micro Sonic Infusions, procedures designed to sculpt the face and body. In addition, Hume used to do waxing, facials, body wraps and massages, but doesn’t have as much time to do those. Airbrush makeup and Micro Sonic Infusion monopolize Hume’s time.
She’s also a member of the Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce, and at the organization’s Ladies Night Out last fall.
Now Hume spends part of her work week at Saving Face, and the rest on the road, doing her services on site and continuing to be a regional sales manager. She embraces being able to have a home base at the Burnsville salon.
“It just gives me more opportunity to do more work in a day because I don’t have to travel and set up,” Hume says.
An artist in her spare time – she makes jewelry, draws and paints – Hume says that doing airbrush makeup is her favorite part of her job.
“It’s a lot like painting a picture,” she says. “You can give a woman extreme confidence. I love when a woman looks in the mirror and is excited about the way she looks. That’s everything to me.”
Q AND A WITH
MEG HUME
What are three words people would use to describe you?Funny, sweet and caring.
What is your favorite thing you’ve done this summer?
I’m a new gardener. I’ve probably taken it a little overboard but I love it.
Where was your favorite vacation?
Gosh, I’ve not been on that many that were all that wonderful. Probably with my husband, kids and family up in Canada at a beach.
Do you have any makeup tips for all the women out there?
I would definitely suggest trying airbrush makeup. It’s really an extension of skin care … If somebody really wants that natural look, you can really get that with airbrush.
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