Over the course of the past 18 years, makeup artist and entrepreneur, Vanessa Valliant has made an impact on the beauty industry in more ways than one. Her simplistic approach to glowing beauty makeup on every skin tone has graced celebrities, brides, models and the everyday women.

Vanessa has worked with celebrities such as Lorde, Jennifer Hudson and Madonna as well as had her work grace the pages of Nylon Magazine and Vogue Italia. Vanessa has been represented by Ford Models, Whilhelminia Models and Exclusive Artists in their Makeup Artistry divisions. Vanessa's work has also appeared in campaigns for BonTon, Kohl's, Macy's, Nike, Peter Millar, Sherwan Williams, Target, Ulta Beauty, Vera Bradley. Her makeup career began at MAC Cosmetics where she was a business manager for 5 years. National and internationally published her work can be found in Vogue, Vogue Italia, Allure, Nylon, INKED, Joey, Inside Weddings, CS Brides Chicago, CS Magazine Chicago and RUE magazine.

Vanessa has a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Quantitative Reasoning & Statistics from Benedictine University.