BY BARBARA HARRINGTON

SPECIAL TO THE BUSINESS JOURNAL

In a career filled with unforgettable moments, celebrity makeup artist and Aberdeen native Billy Brasfield recently realized a dream come true.

"People always say 'You've worked with everybody. Who is your fantasy?'" said Brasfield, who professionally goes by billy b. "Dolly would be among the top three ... I have been obsessed with Dolly Parton since I was a kid."

Brasfield, who lives in New York and has a beauty shop in Aberdeen, said Parton does her own makeup, so he thought he wouldn't get to work with her. Yet when she was getting ready for a music video, the director mentioned Brasfield's desire to Parton.

Parton agreed and his agent called to tell him the news.

"I was doing makeup on Cindy Crawford and he told me to step outside," Brasfield said.

Parton's video is for "Backwoods Barbie," a song she wrote for her Broadway production, "9 to 5," which opens this month. Brasfield said the song is about a woman who wants to grow up to be beautiful.

The video was shot at a log cabin outside Los Angeles and on Hollywood Boulevard in front of Frederick's.

"Meeting her is exactly like you would want it to be times a hundred," Brasfield said. "She's sweet, humble, normal and amazingly beautiful, with gorgeous skin. She really let her guard down, trusted me to do what I wanted."

She did have one stipulation, though, that once she looked at it, if there was anything she wanted to change he would be alright with that.

"When I finished, I handed her the mirror and she said it was perfect," Brasfield said. "This was a dream come true. If my career is over tomorrow, I would be okay, not money-wise, but achievement-wise. I thought what could be better than this. But, I have thought that at other times and it just keeps getting better."