The Hidden Costs of a Glam Squad, Featuring Makeup Artist Jenna Nicole
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.6 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re joined by celebrity makeup artist Jenna Nicole, known for creating her signature soft glam on clients like Selena Gomez and Brenda Song. In this episode, Jenna shares how her lifelong love of makeup turned into a career after becoming pregnant with her son at 16 and realizing beauty could become both a creative outlet and a way to support herself. We also talk about what defines the new generation of celebrity makeup artists, the products she always keeps in her kit, and how she creates perfected, high-definition complexion that still looks modern and natural. Plus, Jenna shares her thoughts on the Simone Biles $23K glam discourse and what people often misunderstand about the business of beauty behind the scenes.
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| 0:00.0 | G.M. |
| 0:02.0 | Los Angeles. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi Kirby. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Los Angeles. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we are joined by celebrity makeup artist Jenna Nicole, known for her ability to create elevated camera ready glam |
| 0:21.9 | that still feels modern, wearable, and deeply personalized to each client from Selena Gomez |
| 0:27.8 | to Brenda Song. |
| 0:29.4 | From red carpets to editorial to her growing presence online, Jenna represents a new era of |
| 0:34.2 | artists balancing artistry and disability on social media. Welcome to Glass Angeles. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. We're thrilled to have you. You're so pretty. |
| 0:46.1 | So both of you. It's like nervous. Don't be nervous. We're so excited to pick your brain. But first, |
| 0:53.2 | we want to know what's on your |
| 0:54.6 | face. What are some of the products that you have been loving? What are products that you |
| 0:58.4 | always maybe have in your kit? Oh my goodness. All of the above. I have a lot of my face. |
| 1:04.1 | Delba, tried and true, always skincare. I'm using today the Armani, luminous silk primer, the new rare foundation, which you don't actually |
| 1:15.0 | have to use a primer or set for the foundation, but I was a little dry today. So I did use a primer. A lot of |
| 1:21.8 | rare beauty. Rare beauty blush and happy. Makeup forever lip liner in Universal Earth. It's like a nice brownie kind of. |
| 1:31.4 | It's really pretty. Yeah. Thank you. Usually you hear endless cacao or lemon or wherever walnut. |
| 1:37.4 | This one I did a client and she had it on her lips and I was just like, oh my gosh, you have the most |
| 1:41.7 | beautiful natural color lips. And she's like, no, it's this lip liner. So now it's my staple color. Amazing. The new Rare Beauty brown mascara. I've been really into brown mascara just with like my light eyes. You have a really pretty glow to your cheeks. Do you have anything on or is it just the blush? I mix it with hope or sorry, happy, but I mix in the Delba multi bomb. |
| 2:03.1 | So I make it kind of like glossy. |
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