evening that starts with an hours-long wait to parade down a red carpet winding across the Hard Rock's main floor, followed by an award show where industry luminaries present awards for categories from "MILF Performer of the Year" to "Most Outrageous Sex Scene." Special guests are invited to perform (this year's headliner is Lil Wayne), but dinner is unfortunately not a part of the five-hour program. After the ceremony, many performers are contracted to attend after parties till the wee hours of the morning. Even for adult performers, whose job is to look amazing through rigorous and athletic days on the sets of their films, today will be a test of their mettle. But their fans have come from all over the world to meet them, and that means they can't slack. And neither can their makeup artists. This week, Rebecca and the three other beauty professionals she hired for the AVN Awards and attached expos have been doing makeup and hair for ten adult performers over long days, applying full faces in the mornings and touch-ups in the afternoons. Tonight, they'll do further touch-ups before stars hit the red carpet. Rebecca tells me her clientele is about sixty percent mainstream, with the other forty percent coming from porn. This week's frenetic pace aside, "The adult industry isn't too intense," she says. "There's not much of the 'Oh, make sure they're not shiny,' like there is on mainstream TV and film. Because on these sets, if they're sweaty, it's fine, because it's part of what's going on for the day." Raised Mormon, Rebecca has embraced the professional opportunities the adult industry provides, but she doesn't stick around to see what goes on after makeup. She arrives early, prepares the performers, and leaves before the action starts: "I normally leave a touch-up kit for my talent, so when I leave they have sufficient amount of product to touch themselves up on their breaks." There's not much of the 'Oh, make sure they're not shiny,' like there is on mainstream TV and film... On these sets, if they're sweaty, it's fine. "I feel like this is just like any other job," she adds. "I have fun doing makeup, and I can't let everything around me affect me. I deal with each client as they come, and whatever the situation, I make sure that I'm prepared for it." The quirks of working in porn still make an impression, though. "I'm used to craft services tables on regular TV and film sets," she tells me. "But most of the time when I go on set for an adult project, it's like, crafty, lube, toys, douches. I'm like, 'Oh, so, the apples go next to the dildos?'"
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