The Makeup Artist’s Beauty Edit: Carly Giglio’s Pro-Approved Favorites
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What does a beauty insider actually keep in her makeup? We chatted with New York-based makeup artist, groomer, and educator Carly Giglio about artistry, effortless beauty, and the products she truly loves. Carly has built an impressive career working across beauty campaigns, photoshoots, education, and product development. Her approach to makeup is all about enhancing what’s already there creating polished, modern looks that still feel like you.
During the conversation, Carly shares some of her favorite beauty finds, along with insight into how she approaches creating effortless looks for her clients and collaborations. She also gives us a behind-the-scenes look at her work with major beauty brands, from photoshoots and product development to writing brand curriculum and hosting masterclasses.
If you’re always curious about the products professional makeup artists actually use, Carly’s edit is worth adding to your beauty radar.Carly shares her experience working with Epic Lights Beauty and what makes the brand exciting from a professional artist’s perspective Including the luminizing glow gel.
As she showed the NARS light reflecting blush we imediately added to our list to buy, Stila Tubing Mascara has become a beauty-bag favorite for its defined, lifted effect and Carly is a fan.
RCMA, longtime professional makeup favorite, RCMA is known for products designed with artists in mind and continues to have a place in Carly’s beauty rotation.
What makes Carly’s perspective especially interesting is that she isn’t just creating beautiful makeup looks. She works across multiple sides of the beauty industry, including brand consulting, education, product development, writing, and masterclasses. That experience gives her a unique understanding of what makes a beauty product genuinely useful not just what looks good on a shelf or performs well in a social media video..
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