PS: Have you ever had to deal with an artist not having your foundation shade on set? How did you handle that?
"I would walk onto set and makeup artists would literally tell me, 'Your skin is perfect; you don't need makeup.'"
ANK: It's one of the biggest struggles I experienced when I first started in this industry. When I first started booking jobs after grad school, those days were actually nightmare experiences for me. I've had artists grab the darkest product in their kit, which would end up being too dark or too light for my skin tone. I would normally let the artists do whatever they needed to do and go back to the trailer and fix it. I knew I would always do a better job than them, which is sad but common, and it can really affect your confidence. For a long time, I had a love-hate relationship with that part of going to work.
Once I started working in Shondaland, though, I never had to worry about walking into bad hair and makeup on set. Because there was a black female lead and creator of the show [How to Get Away With Murder], the hair-and-makeup trailer had everything we needed.
