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Kannan Raajamanickam (born 29 July 1989), is one of the leading Malaysian makeup artists and he is also a Malaysian film actor, dancer and founder of KR Beauty cosmetics. He is very well-known for his world class Indian and western bridal makeup.

Early life and family
Kannan Raajamanickam hails from a Malaysian Tamil family in Putra Jaya Selatan. He was born on 29th July 1989 and grew up in Putrajaya. Kannan Raajamanickam acquired a degree in Health Science then furthered to work under the Management & Production of Pentarama, an artistic team under the Ministry of Communication and Multimedia. He has explored all around Malaysia with creative presentations on 1 Malaysia concept.

Career
While working for the Ministry of Communication and Multimedia, he decided to give makeup a shot and started off with self-makeup and helping their co-artists in stageplays to complete their character makeup. Eventually, he gave up his job and professionally started off his career as a Makeup-artist on his own in the year 2014. Kannan Raajamanickam is well sought after for his talented make-up arts in creating world class and trend setting makeup transformations. He rose up to this fame not by taking part in any competition or makeup classes but through his own perseverance and hard work and created a household name for his own establishment ‘Apsara Asia’ and 'KR Beauty'. Kannan has always been known for his impeccable perfection in the makeups and pioneering eye and face makeup techniques. His smokey eye makeup, face lifting contouring, subtle makeup are some of his well-acclaimed makeup techniques. In the later 2014, he ventured into bridal makeup and he is now pursuing it as his main profession.

Kannan became well-known for his celebrity makeup. He styled hair and makeup for South Indian Actress Trisha Krishnan. Kannan has also done makeup of many Malaysian celebrities such as Datin Sri Shaila Nair, Ratna Gowri, Jasmine Michael and many.

As a part of sharing his knowledge to the next generation of makeup artists, Kannan has also been conducting The Makeup Master classes not only in Malaysia but also overseas including in countries like India and Sri Lanka. Kannan Raajamanickam’s next masterclasses are scheduled to be held in a few other countries including Canada. He is also trained in the Hairstyle and Hair-do from the International Hair-do Makeup artist Richa Dave.

Dance and Stageplays
Kannan Raajamanickam has stamped his imprint not only in the fields of makeup and arts but also in dance. Arts and dance had always fascinated Kannan Raajamanickam since his boyhood. He was trained in odissi, bharathanatyam, contemporary and Malay traditional Dance. As the branding director of Malaysia’s much established dance institute, ‘The Asthana Arts’, Kannan himself developed the concepts and portrayed many epical characters such as Lord Shiva in Dr Burn’s play, Krishna in Syama sundara, The Bleeding Salangai and Kannagi, Kovalan and Madhavi in Silappathikaram. For him commercial arts and performing arts are the two set of eyes. He has worked closely with Jabatan Kebudayaan and Kesenian Negara, Temple of Fine Arts, Tourism Ministry, RTM, Astro and many more.

For the Kuala Lumpur Navarathiri Arts, he did makeup for the Three Goddesses and Navadurga characters. Especially, Kannan’s portrayal as Goddess Mahakali has been critically acclaimed and won him many accolades. His recent portrayal as Maha Vishnu in the stage play ’Surpanakha’ has also been very well received. Also, Kannan is performing stage dance shows on account of Krishna Janmashtami every year with a theme of Lord Krishna.

Fashion and Magazine Covers
Kannan also evolved himself as a fashion model and appeared in several Fashion magazines and brand promotions. He appeared as a cover page model for Wedding Fever Magazine and also played a brand promotion model for XClub which is an aesthetics, business ethics, self branding and lifestyle management firm.

Filmography
Kannan made his debut in a cameo in the film ‘Geethaiyin Raathai’ playing a negative role in the year 2016. Later, Kannan played his first lead role in the movie ‘Kali Muni Tharisanam’ which was much talked about for his extraordinary performance as Goddess Maha Kali. He also made brief appearances in movies such as Mayangathey and Ariyaamale. In addition to the films, Kannan played a lead role in a TV soap opera titled ‘Agam Puram’ along with Mugen Rao.

Awards and honours
Kannan Raajamanickam represented Malaysia for Astro Vinmeen channel in the 7th Edison Award at Chennai, bagging the best dance team award. He received ‘The Best Makeup Artist’ award at CineFest Awards 2019 for the movie ‘Mayangathe’ and also awarded AWARD_NAME by Desam Awards in the year 2019. He was also voted as one of the winners among 100s of Makeup artists worldwide under the Best Wedding Makeup and Hair category organized by Canada based Samyukta Wedding Fashion company.

Kannan’s other honours include ‘The Best Makeup Aritst’ by The Business World International Organization Malaysia and he is honoured by The Presidents of AIHBA India Mrs.Muthulakshmi and Mr.David.