The Makeup Insider

Vanessa Barney

Booking Overview

A weekly one-on-one beauty-industry interview show focused on the careers, techniques, business realities, and personal experiences of makeup professionals and beauty creators. Agencies could credibly pitch established makeup artists, beauty content creators, and recognized beauty-industry experts with distinctive career stories, practical expertise, or strong credentials; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 121

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: Australia

Instagram: 2.1k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Vanessa Barney - Freelance makeup artist and host focused on the real-life careers, creative development, and professional challenges of makeup artists.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established makeup artists, beauty creators, and beauty-industry professionals with meaningful career experience, practical expertise, or a distinctive path into the industry.

Required Achievements:

Recognized beauty or creator awards, Long-term professional makeup careers, Red-carpet, event, or high-profile production credits, Demonstrated audience growth or creator success, Specialist expertise in makeup techniques, products, or professional practice

Recent Guest Discussions

Ellen Malone - Building A Sustainable Beauty Career, Creator Earnings, Social-media Growth, Makeup Education, Colour Matching, Wedding Makeup, And The Relationship Between Creative Careers And Opportunity.

Michael Brown - Professional Makeup Kits, Product Testing, PR Gifting, Complexion Techniques, Red-carpet Work, Long-wear Makeup, And Applying A Full Face Step By Step.

Michael Brown - Managing Beauty-product Gifting, Evaluating PR Samples, Selecting Products For A Professional Kit, And How Working Makeup Artists Decide What To Endorse Or Use.

Recent Topics

Beauty, Makeup Artistry, Freelance Makeup, Beauty Careers, Makeup Techniques

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Makeup Insider

The Beliefs That Held Me Back For Decades

September 21, 2026

This month's Insider Diary is just me. I'm talking about the limiting beliefs that held me back in my career for decades, and what shifted for me.In this episode:The 3 limiting beliefs that held me back for at least 13 years: fear of rejection, waiting to be "discovered," and not wanting to be annoyingWhy people rarely actually say no to you. Most of the time they just don't get back to you, and that's not the same thing3 quotes from past guests that changed how I th...

From the Opera House to Viral TikTok: Ask Ellen on Building a Beauty Career That Actually Lasts

September 08, 2026

Ellen's Blog Post From the Opera House to Viral TikTok, with Ask Ellen.This week I sat down with Ellen Malone — makeup artist, beauty content creator, and reigning Australian and New Zealand Beauty and Fashion Creator of the Year. She's also, quietly, a trained opera singer who's performed at the Sydney Opera House and played the lead in Carmen. Yes, really.We got into everything. Her start on a Mac counter at 20, the year she completely flopped online before anything took off, th...

A Full Face, Live: Every Product Michael Brown Reached For. Watch on Youtube.

September 01, 2026

Send us Fan MailMichael Brown is back on The Insider Edit, and this time it's not a chat, it's a full face, live, start to finish. Michael's been in the industry since the early 2000s (he started at Estée Lauder back in 2000), trained under Gucci Westman during her years as Lancôme's creative director, and now works mostly red carpet and event glam: Melbourne Cup, the Logies, Farmer Wants A Wife, Today Show appearances, and a week of 6am glams at Royal Ascot in London. In ...

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