Brandy Gowling has done everything from selling makeup door to door at age 16 to running a driving school at 20. Today, she is helping people with Take Control Cosmedix, which combines her amazing makeup artistry skills with camouflage therapy products to combat skin disorders including burns, scars and skin cancer. Gowling's endless drive to educate and help people look and feel their best resulted in her founding the The Makeup Source 12 years ago. Now she is focused on the medical side of the industry with Take Control Cosmedix and developing more innovative concepts. Brandy is highly involved in the community volunteering at multiple organizations. Brandy has also received many awards for her hard work in contributing to the community and creating a successful business.

Brandy Gowling's endless drive to educate and help people look and feel their best resulted in her founding the The Makeup Source. Now she is focused on the medical side of the industry with Take Control Cosmedix and developing more innovative concepts. Recently Brandy and her company Take Control Cosmedix opened their doors to the public with the launch of a new camouflage therapy clinic, located in the Hamilton Hospitals Assessment Centre. This new facility offers private consultation and exam rooms, a training session boardroom and a lab for ongoing research and development.

Consistently devoting her personal time to those in need, in 2004 Brandy teamed with a special effects expert to create the first mini-prosthesis for a skin cancer survivor. In 2007 Brandy was named one of Mohawk College’s Incredible 40 at 40. Recently, in 2009 Brandy was featured on a 100 Huntley Street segment “What I do,” where she demonstrated how she uses prosthetics and make-up to hide imperfections on people’s skin often caused by cancer, burns or skin disorders with no cures.

Brandy's extensive volunteer work include being a guest speaker and conducting workshops at various organizations and providing camouflage therapy free of charge to those with true financial need.

“People come in so torn and so sad and their self-esteem is so low and it’s really hard for them to face life because they know they have to get up and do it again everyday. That’s why the company is called Take Control, because people can take the tools and the stuff that I teach them and take control of their own lives and their own self-esteem.”