OUR MISSION
Is to provide clients with the most aesthetically flawless cosmetic procedures, in a professional environment, with particular emphasis on our high level of service, adjusting each service and procedure to be customised to the individuals needs.
OUR PROMISE
We will continue to remain in the forefront of the NZ permanent cosmetics industry through continually advancing our education, knowledge on current technology, the present fashion trends and always meeting and exceeding government regulations to ensure clients are receiving the best care possible in a relaxing surrounding.
MICHELLE O’BYRNE
MICHELLE O’BYRNE
Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch & Ashburton
Director, Artist & International Trainer
Michelle, with over 28 years experience in the beauty business is a highly regarded permanent make up leader, artist, trainer and advanced skin therapist. Trained by an elite permanent make up artist Val Glover Hovan 19 years ago, Michelle left with strong foundation of knowledge and skills to truly begin the career that was calling her. Her knowledge and expertise, have gained her a solid reputation as a conscientious and skilled permanent makeup technician, continually striving for excellence in both her service and training.
Over the years Michelle has extensively trained, updating her skills with advanced education in America, Europe and Australia in order to bring the best techniques back to New Zealand. Michelle belongs to the Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals (SPCP) in the USA, where she has attended numerous seminars and conferences. Her commitment to excellence has seen her reach a milestone of becoming a SPCP Lifetime member, which means she has belonged to the society for over 10 years now.
Michelle is an overall skilled artist but is considered a specialist in her field for her knack with correctional eyebrow procedures, upper and lower eyeliners and lip procedures, which are harder than eyebrows to master. She is known for having extremely good pigment retention.
Michelle bases her time between Auckland, Hamilton while travelling occasionally to Christchurch. Our Auckland clinic is our head office, where we offer a friendly, but professional environment to help you feel at ease. Take a look through our treatment options with detailed descriptions to find something suitable for your needs.
TRAININGS / SEMINARS / ACHIEVEMENTS
- Michelle’s life changing training was in 2001 after training with Val Glover- Hovan, Sydney, Australia. Val had been practicing at this stage for 15 years (now 36 years), she was Australia’s first training academy, she is a life time SPCP (Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals) and trainer member and has recently completed her term as the Education Chair Person on the SPCP Board.
- Train the Trainer conference in Sydney 2004 hosted by Val (above) with guest trainer Conne Lord, Utah, USA who had been practicing for 12 years at the time, she has since retired but continues to publish cosmetic tattooing educational manuals.
- Train the Trainer conference in Sydney 2005 hosted by Val (above) with guest trainer Liza Sims Lawrence, Alaska, USA, practicing for 22 years at the same (now 33 years) was the director of SPCP from 2008-2011, speaker and guest trainer, also lifetime member.
- Became a SPCP member 2007.
- SPCP Las Vegas, USA Conference 2007 where Michelle sat her CPCP exam, which she passed (grade of at least 81% required).
- SPCP Houston, USA Conference and Train the Trainer 2008 hosted by Majorie Grim who has had 18 year in the industry, was the president of the SPCP from 2003-2005, won numerous awards and is the author of industry textbook Permanent Cosmetics- The Foundation of Fundamental Applications, sought after keynote speaker and life time member of SPCP.
- Elizabeth Finch Colour Theory Course 2008.
- Ultrecht, Netherlands Beauty Expo 2010.
- SPCP Memphis, USA 2011 Train the Trainer.
- SPCP Atlanta, USA 2014 Train the Trainer.
- SPCP Las Vegas, 2016 Conference attendance with prominent guest speakers such as Tina Davies Microstroking expert.
- Current Bloodborne pathogens and infection control certificate (renewed every 2 years).
- Became a SPCP Lifetime member 2016.
- Attended Swiss Colour International Conference, Austria 2017
- Advanced one day machine hair stroke and ombre training with Azar in Sydney, 2018
- Four day masterclass attendee for Tatiana Polivanova (Swiss Color trainer from Ukraine) covering the techniques of powder/ombre, pixel eyeliner, winged eyeliner and full lip contour, held and organised by Wake Up With Make Up, New Zealand
- Granted SPCP Trainer Member status for WUWMU fundamental training program, 2020
KIRSTY STAPLETON
KIRSTY PRANKERD
Auckland & Hamilton
Business Manager, Artist & Trainer
Kirsty joined her mother Michelle in 2014 to become a qualified and competent permanent makeup artist through her fundamental program. Even though she is following in her mother’s footsteps, she has developed her own individual style. She found a growing urge to learn more, with social media allowing her to find the best of the industry to train with, upgrading her various skills with advanced education in Europe and Australia for brows, eyeliner and lips between 2015 to 2018.
Kirsty belongs to the Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals (SPCP) in the USA, where she has attended one Las Vegas conference where she sat and passed Certified Permanent Cosmetic Professional (CPCP) exam with flying colours. Amongst her whirlwind of 4 years in the business she also managed to juggle full time work and full time study to ultimately obtain her commerce degree majoring in Accounting and Finance in 2017. She decided to continue to pursue the field of permanent cosmetics, as this was her true passion, having already found a love for microblading in 2015. She has an eye for detail, she loves making clients happy and more confident within themselves, and truly believes that permanent makeup is an amazing industry.
Kirsty is an overall skilled artist, but she is our known eyebrow specialist, with a knack for creating beautiful arches and perfect strokes using microblading, combination or ombre methods. She has also fell in love with the art of lip tattooing. Kirsty bases her time between Auckland and Hamilton. Our Auckland clinic is our head office, where we offer a friendly, but professional environment to help you feel at ease. Take a look through our treatment options with detailed descriptions to find something suitable for your needs.
TRAININGS / SEMINARS / ACHIEVEMENTS
- Originally trained by Michelle O’Byrne in February 2014 covering the ‘FULL FACE’fundamentals
- The Microblading world exploded where she training in Microblading with Vesna Jugovic, Phibrows Master in Sydney, 2015
- Became a SPCP (Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals) member 2015
- SPCP Las Vegas, 2016 Conference attendance with prominent guest speakers such as Tina Davies Microstroking expert- demonstrating her own individual style of microblading – ‘flow’ method. Also awarded CPCP member after passing qualifying exam (minimum of 81% required) with 93%
- Current Bloodborne pathogens and Infection control certificate (renewed every 2 years).
- Studied the OS App for European techniques, 2017
- Advance one day training with Azar in Sydney, 2018
- One on one training in ombre and additional hair stroke pattern with Miriam Grice in United Kingdom, 2018
- Two day advanced training in signature paradise shine lips and pixel eyeliner by Dolores Srok in Austria, 2018
- Four day masterclass attendee for Tatiana Polivanova (Swiss Color trainer from Ukraine) covering the techniques of powder/ombre, pixel eyeliner, winged eyeliner and full lip contour, held and organised by Wake Up With Make Up, New Zealand, 2018.
- Learnt Hair Vitalisation, 2019
- Attended APMAC (Australian Permanent Makeup Artist Conference) over two days, 2019
MIRANDA HILL
MIRANDA HILL
Christchurch and Queenstown
Licensee & Artist
Miranda has a solid 25 year background in the beauty industry after beginning her career in 1993 as a make up artist and beauty therapist. In 1998 she moved to Millbrook, and worked from what was known as the Country Club and grew there team and spa to become voted the 6th best spa in the world, meeting and treating worldwide celebrities. From there she shared her talents and worked in management at renowned spas in Christchurch. She saw herself being drawn back to Queenstown, her hometown where she started working for the Skin Institute where she advanced her skills as a skin specialist, specialising in aging, acne and IPL.
With Miranda’s extensive background, her obvious next progressive step was focusing her passions towards permanent make up. She completed her fundamental training over 2 years ago, training as a micropigmentation artist under Wake Up With Make Up. Miranda was a natural artist from the start, with the artistic talent running in her family. Michelle and Kirsty have seen her skills grow in leaps and bounds, to a point where they asked Miranda to work under the Wake Up With Make Up brand at the beginning of 2019.
Miranda is an overall skilled artist, she loves to create a masterpiece, mixed with her experience of make up and skin, she thrives off creating a customised brow that suits the shape and style of your face, with eyeliner being one of her most popular treatments as well.
Miranda bases her time between Queenstown and Christchurch. Take a look through our treatment options with detailed descriptions to find something suitable for your needs.
TRAININGS / SEMINARS / ACHIEVEMENTS
- Has been in the beauty industry 25 years (ITEC, CIBTAC Beauty Therapy and cosmetology, Professional Business Management Dipolma, AACDS Dermal therapies and cosmetic dipolma)
- Originally trained by Michelle O’Byrne in February 2016 covering the ‘FULL FACE’ fundamentals of permanent make up
- Current Bloodborne pathogens and Infection control certificate (renewed every 2 years).
- Became a SPCP member 2016
- One day advanced training in machine hairstrokes and ombre with Michelle O’Byrne, 2018
- Four day masterclass attendee for Tatiana Polivanova (Swiss Color trainer from Ukraine) covering the techniques of powder/ombre, pixel eyeliner, winged eyeliner and full lip contour, held and organised by Wake Up With Make Up, New Zealand, 2018
- Meso lifting and hair vitalisation, 2019
- Attended APMAC (Australian Permanent Makeup Artist Conference) over two days, 2019
SARAH KIM
SARAH KIM
Wellington
Licensee & Artist
Sarah is the newest addition to the Wake Up With Make Up team.. Although Sarah had enjoyed her time working as a Beauty Therapist, her true passion was makeup artistry. So in July 2019, Sarah decided to take her passion one step further and complete her Fundamental Training with us. From her very first day of training, she knew she had found her niche. She thrived off using her perfectionism to create customised looks and is always eager to learn and fine tune her skills. Sarah is definitely a natural!
Sarah’s brand new Wake Up With Make Up clinic in Wellington is now open!
TRAININGS / SEMINARS / ACHIEVEMENTS
- Has completed her beauty therapy studies at Elite Level 4 & 5 Qualification in 2018
- Originally trained by Michelle O’Byrne in July 2019 covering the ‘FULL FACE’ fundamentals of permanent make up
- Current Bloodborne pathogens and infection control certificate (renewed every 2 years)
- Advanced training in machine hair strokes, full lip colour with Michelle O’Byrne and Kirsty Stapleton, 2020
- MESO Lifting and hair vitalisation online training, 2020
- Courtney Stevens Velvet Liner(c) online training, 2020
LISA PUDNEY
LISA PUDNEY
Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch and Queenstown
Communications & Bookings
After searching far and wide for a new employee we found the ‘right fit’ for Wake Up With Make Up in Lisa. Lisa joined Wake Up With Make Up at the end of 2018 to take care of accounts but predominantly to take on the role of team communicator.
While the ladies are busy with clients and training, Lisa is the first point of contact for any queries and bookings, operating the mailbox hello@wakeupwithmakeup.co.nz and monitoring voice messages on the 0800 737 668 number. She can help you navigate through our procedures and booking system to organise your next visit.
Lisa has a warm, inviting nature along with a hard working ethic, nothing ever seems to be too much for her. We are proud to see how Lisa will continue to help Wake Up With Make Up grow.
Lisa is employed as a telecommuter, spending most of her time working from Hamilton (soon to be in our new premises), occasionally you might get to see her face in Auckland too.
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