About

Lianne Farbes is the Founder and Editor of TheMakeupGirl™.  She is a Beauty Expert with over 20 years of experience working with makeup and skincare.  She has held every retail beauty position from sales girl to counter manager and is a professional makeup artist by trade.  Lianne grew up in sunny Southern California and the chilly Midwest.  She was interested in makeup and beauty products at an early age and got many of her beauty secrets from her mother and “Nana.”  She has been addicted to Bonne Bell Lip Smackers since she was 9 (she had the one that hung around her neck).  As she navigated her way through the world of beauty, she noticed that something was a little off.

It was only after she began modeling as a teenager that she discovered the art of custom blending from the makeup artists she worked with on a daily basis. That is when she began her quest for the perfect match and the perfect colors.  She began experimenting with mixing foundations as she was finding that there was never ONE shade that matched her perfectly. In 1983, she landed a job working at an avant garde makeup store in the trendy Central West End section of downtown St. Louis called Barone. There, she gave makeovers to the 80’s New Wave crowd and did makeup for many local bands for their stage performances.  She learned all about contouring and use of color from a makeup artist’s point of view and she was off to the races.  She left the safe haven of home to attend Parsons School of Design in New York City as soon as she graduated high school. While there, she studied Color Theory, Journalism and Fashion Merchandising.   After college, she eventually became one of the first custom powder blenders for Prescriptives, a pioneer in that area. Lianne has also worked for beauty giants Lancôme, Clarins, and Borghese. She has trained with the best and has a wealth of knowledge in both skincare and makeup.

Lianne founded TheMakeupGirl™ in 2006 and it has since become one of the most popular beauty blogs on the web.  A self confessed “web 2.0 addict and social media enthusiast”, Lianne has has leveraged social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to increase her readership and blog traffic by 300% in the first year alone.  The site has been featured in InStyle Magazine’s Best of the web issue (November 2009), About.com’s  listing of the best beauty blogs,  Glamour.com, The SassyBean, Woman’s Day Magazine and has recently been listed as one of the Top 50 Beauty Blogs by Konector.  Over the past 2 years, Lianne has been a regular fixture at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week serving up the latest tips, trends and makeup looks directly from backstage.  Lianne is always online, you can find her all over the net. If you are interested in getting Lianne’s help with a blog or social media click here.

If you have questions you would like answered, you are a PR firm with a product pitch, you would like Lianne to speak at your event, book her for an on air appearance for a beauty related feature, or you would like to submit your products for review, please contact Lianne directly here.  Lianne currently resides in the DC Metro area.

Contributing Editors:

Stasi Glenn West Coast Editor

Felicia Walker Benson New York Editor

Jack Stanaszek Men’s Perspective Editor

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Lianne Farbes

5765-F Burke Center Parkway

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