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Kim Kardashian makes stars of makeup artists on Instagram: 'Without them, I wouldn't be me'

There was the ticket itself — which cost $500, not even for the best seat in the house — a few nights at the Sunset Tower, plus airfare from Sweden. All told, Linda Mehrens spent about $8,000 to watch Kim Kardashian get her makeup done on a Saturday last month.

Credit Instagram. The social media platform has made women around the world aspire to the reality star's glamorous look. And it's helped catapult makeup artists from what was a position of relative obscurity in the 20th century to their own kind of celebrity today.

Mario Dedivanovic, one of Kardashian's go-to beauty gurus for the last eight years, has amassed 1.