The Makeup Insider
The Makeup Insider
Vanessa Barney
The Makeup Insider is a weekly one-on-one podcast exploring the life and career of makeup artists, hosted by freelance mua Vanessa Barney.. Finding your community of other likeminded mua’s – the creative, artistic, talkative, flexible, adaptable with a good eye for colour kind-of-people, can often be daunting. Like, where do you start? The Makeup Insider is designed for just that. To build a collaborative online community of artists to build their confidence, connections and help drive their career to the next level. If you’re just starting out or have been in the industry for a long time, tune in now, check out the key takeaways in the show notes and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Find Vanessa @vanessabarney @the.makeupinsider
9. Rob Povey fashion and advertising mua who seeks inspiration from the arts, environment, and subcultures gives testing and publishing tips.
So much in our industry is learnt from each other. Growing up as a CIS boy with a mum and sister who didn’t wear makeup, Rob wishes growing up there was a platform like TMI where artists could find out all this industry info to help our careers.
Dec 13, 2021
1 hr 24 min
8. Harriet Hadfield, behind the red carpet & much more!
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 in this industry is really, really important, and a key motivator for Harriet changing careers from makeup artist to business coach. She’s now able to now help other artists understand their worth.
Dec 6, 2021
1 hr 5 min
7. Bookkeeping with Bec “Bookkeeping is more than just tracking finances; it’s making sure your business is running a profit!
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.
Nov 29, 2021
43 min
6. Ellie Zuker talks assisting and how she got the gigs on Fashion Week and Neighbours
Self taught MUA Ellie Zuker talks about putting yourself out there, assisting and tells all about how she got her gigs on Fashion Week and Neighbours.
Nov 22, 2021
1 hr 15 min
5. Senior Producer Chelsea reveals her top tips to getting a foot in the door with producers.
This week: getting personal with Chelsea Nieper, an experienced advertising producer. Chelsea reveals her top tips to getting a foot in the door with producers, gives insight into makeup clients through case studies and offers some sage advice for up-and-coming mua.
Nov 15, 2021
46 min
4. How Stella Tu grew her Instagram audience, from 8K to 80K in one year
As artists, we face rejection all too often – and what it does is actually fire up a response in our brains. For Stella, this response motivated her to self-improve and focus on what she brought to the table.
Nov 8, 2021
1 hr 5 min
3. Mia Connor - Instagram for Makeup Artists
This week: getting personal with Mia Connor, fashion and red carpet-style makeup artist. Mia Connor, self-confessed quality control freak runs content creation masterclasses, born from many years of trial, training and transition.
Nov 1, 2021
1 hr 15 min
2. Julia Green - Talks Rates
This week: getting personal with Julia Green; an Aussie mua, mother of two and 2019 Makeup Artist Guild Asia Pacific ‘Makeup Shot of the Year’ winner.
Oct 25, 2021
1 hr 22 min
1. Monica Gingold - Fashion Makeup Artist
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!).
Oct 14, 2021
1 hr 27 min