The Makeup Insider

Send us Fan Mail This week: getting personal with Sue McLaurin , Brisbane makeup artist and educator with over 20 years’ experience. Ever wanted to change careers, but thought… I’m too old to start over? Not for Sue McLaurin! Sue was working in the travel industry in Europe for most of her twenties, travelling and loving the feel-good freedom that the lifestyle brought. It was only when she return...

Send us Fan Mail This week: getting personal with Kylie O’Toole - mua whose work includes ‘dead’ bodies, intimate boob scenes and more.   Ever wondered the type of artistry that goes into making a body look ‘dead’ in the movies, on TV, etc. First you learn how they died, what that wound would like look, how the skin would look, etc. For Kylie, she found herself painting ‘dead’ bodies at the tender...

Send us Fan Mail The Makeup Insider is a weekly one-on-one podcast exploring the life and career of makeup artists, hosted by freelance mua Vanessa Barney. This week: getting personal with Rob Povey , fashion and advertising makeup artist who seeks inspiration from the arts, environment, and subcultures.   Makeup artists inspire and find inspiration in the world around them. Models are live billbo...

Send us Fan Mail This week: getting personal with Harriet Hadfield , makeup artist, business coach and founder of freelancewithfreedom .   Hands up if you’re an all or nothing kind of person? Harriet admits she sure is! And there’s nothing wrong with giving it your all, in fact – we highly recommend it. “One day stays one day, if you never make it real ~ H.H.” Understanding how to find your place...

Send us Fan Mail This week: getting personal with Rebecca Buchanan , owner of straight up bookkeeping – a virtual bookkeeping service which helps small businesses understand and track their sales, income and expenses to make better business decisions. If your side hustle has grown into a fully fledged business, or you’re just about to launch your business – you need to manage your finances. Bookke...

Send us Fan Mail The Makeup Insider is a weekly one-on-one podcast exploring the life and career of makeup artists, hosted by freelance mua Vanessa Barney. This week: getting personal with Ellie Zuker , makeup artist, hairstylist and life-long learner.   Learning is incredibly important. No matter what industry you’re in. The thing about learning is, while you may not take everything in – you take...

Send us Fan Mail This week: getting personal with Chelsea Nieper , an experienced advertising producer who pushes boundaries to make the impossible, possible. Producers are quintessential in aligning a client’s vision with the agency’s brief. With over 15 years’ experience, generally in the advertising agency realm, Chelsea reveals her top tips to getting a foot in the door with producers, gives i...

Send us Fan Mail The Makeup Insider is a weekly one-on-one podcast exploring the life and career of makeup artists, hosted by freelance mua Vanessa Barney. This week: getting personal with Stella Tu , Taiwan-born mua who launched her own line, Tu+Kit and grew her following from 8,000 to 80,000 through Instagram Reels. ***Language warning*** Ever felt the cold sting of rejection? Yikes! It’s someth...

Send us Fan Mail The Makeup Insider is a weekly one-on-one podcast exploring the life and career of makeup artists, hosted by freelance mua Vanessa Barney. This week: getting personal with Mia Connor , fashion and red carpet-style makeup artist. For freelance makeup artists, content creation days are the new TFP’s (time for print). Mua’s often use this time to build their portfolio with work that...

Send us Fan Mail The Makeup Insider is a weekly one-on-one podcast exploring the life and career of makeup artists, hosted by freelance mua Vanessa Barney.  Integral to the success of any makeup artist is their ability to pivot styles to suit the brief. Makeup often needs to change to complement the client, the lighting, the photographer or the trend. @Julia Green is thankful makeup has come such...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 1 This week: getting personal with Monica Gingold, a highly skilled, go-to makeup artist who transforms current trends into relevant concepts for the makeup industry. For Monica Gingold, everything fell naturally in to place once she built up her little black book of industry connections (and put a hell-of-a-lot of work in along the way!). If you’re just starting out or ha...