449: Celebrity Makeup Secrets, Drugstore Finds & the Perfect 5-Minute Face with Kelli Anne Sewell
Well with Arielle Lorre
Dear Media, Arielle Lorre
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Kelli Anne Sewell is a celebrity makeup artist known for creating effortless, camera-ready glam that enhances your natural features.
She joins me to break down how to actually do your makeup so it looks good in real life and on camera. We get into underpainting, the 5-minute face, and how to achieve that dewy, “filtered” skin without looking cakey or overdone.
Kelli shares her go-to techniques, drugstore favorites, best under-$30 products, and the biggest mistakes most of us are making—from lip lining to powder to eye makeup. We also talk about the trends she’s over, what’s actually worth it, and how to think about makeup as “you, but hotter.”
Plus, we get into celebrity looks (Margot Robbie vs J.Lo), face taping, Botox, lymphatic drainage, and how to make your makeup last all day.
We cover:
- The 5-minute face
- Underpainting + dewy skin
- Drugstore favorites + best under $30
- Makeup mistakes that age you
- Lip lining, powder, and eye makeup tips
- Celebrity makeup breakdowns
- How to make your makeup last
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.9 | This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look. |
| 0:17.2 | Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out. |
| 0:25.6 | I have such a treat for you today. In fact, when I shared a photo of my guest today and I together |
| 0:32.1 | when we recorded this, I don't think I've ever gotten so many DMs from people who were so excited for this crossover. |
| 0:39.8 | And honestly, this is one that I've been wanting to do for a long time and it delivered. |
| 0:44.0 | So it is such a fun one. |
| 0:46.2 | I am sitting down with celebrity makeup artist Kelly Ann Sewell. |
| 0:49.8 | She also has the makeup by Kellyan app, which is amazing. It's how I've actually kind of sort of |
| 0:56.6 | learned to finally do my own makeup in a different way than I've been doing it since high school. |
| 1:01.3 | And this is really one of those conversations where you actually walk away feeling like you |
| 1:04.9 | know exactly what to do differently next time you do your own makeup. But I highly recommend |
| 1:10.1 | following her on Instagram or TikTok |
| 1:12.7 | where I originally found her and following her app and downloading her app and all of the |
| 1:17.1 | things because she is such an amazing educator and just a fun girl's girl. You are going to |
| 1:23.0 | absolutely love her. And today we get into everything from underpainting, which I feel like everyone |
| 1:28.1 | is talking about right now, but nobody is really explaining properly to how to actually do a |
| 1:33.2 | five-minute face that looks polished and elevated. She shares so many specific product |
| 1:38.0 | recommendations, too, including drugstore favorites and the best makeup investments under |
| 1:42.8 | $30, which I always appreciate because not |
| 1:45.4 | everything needs to be expensive to be good. And I will be sharing those products over on the |
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