In today’s episode of the Get Styled Podcast, Elsa welcomes friend, and makeup artist to the stars, Delina Medhin! Delina recalls her journey into makeup artistry, discusses what a signature makeup look entails, and shares tips to erase the overwhelm around makeup, and show up as your full self, standing in your power with a full Signature Look!

A message from host Elsa Isaac: “Today, I went into my archives. A few years ago, I sat down with my friend, and we had a really good conversation about makeup and the role it plays in our confidence. After listening back to that conversation recently, I just knew it would be a conversation you would want to hear.”

Delina Medhin is a Celebrity Makeup Artist. Her client list includes Kamala Harris, Issa Rae, Alfre Woodard, Ilana Glazer, Phoebe Robinson, & more. Her work is published in Vogue, InStyle, NYTimes, Allure, ELLE, and Essence. She is a beauty brand ambassador for Chanel Beauty and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. She is an On-Camera Beauty Expert on the Today Show. With her written beauty expert advice featured in Allure, Glamour, The CUT, TZR, Well + Good and Mind Body Green.

She is also the Host of her own series 'It Takes A Village', a video podcast, highlighting TOP Artists, Creators and Inventors sharing industry business strategy, and the Host of her own 6-episode series ‘Exploring Harlem’ focused on sharing and uplifting the beauty of black business in her neighborhood of 10 years, Harlem, New York City.

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RESOURCES + REFERENCES 

• Check out Delina’s makeup techniques in her catalog of Instagram Lives!
• Delina’s website

SHOW NOTES  

42:13 - Elsa introduces this conversation that she pulled from the archives…

1:00 - Elsa introduces her special guest, Delina Medhin!

2:07 - Elsa shares why she invited Delina onto the podcast, today!

3:20 - Delina shares what, as a child, she dreamed of doing when she grew up (and the programs her parents put her in to get her there)

7:31 - Delina shares her journey into makeup artistry

12:45 - Delina shares how she helps folks transform through their makeup

18:03 - Delina shares advice she would give a person with no experience/overwhelm who wants to create a makeup routine

21:36 - Delina shares what a “signature style” when it comes to makeup could look like - and how she helps people find theirs

27:18 - Delina shares why people typically come to her as their makeup artist

27:47 - Episode wrap up