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Coming Home to Renovate Houses on a Mass Scale

By Lee Wallender, About.com

Image of Billy Brasfield

Billy Brasfield: Makeup Artist, Home Renovator

Copyright Billy Brasfield; courtesy Mr. Brasfield
From the tattoo on the neck to the black t-shirt, he looks like the farthest thing in the world from a roll-up-your-sleeves renovator of houses in Mississippi. After all, aren't renovators all supposed to look like paunchy, flannel-shirted sitcom dads?

In fact, Billy Brasfield does has one foot in the fast, glamorous life of New York and another foot in the much slower paced life of his old home in Aberdeen, Mississippi.

His work as a make-up artist for the Dixie Chicks and Beyonce, among others, is seen by many. But his other proud creations cannot be seen on any television screen or glossy magazine.

For that, you have to travel to a town of 6,400 along the Mississippi-Alabama border.

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