From Sephora to Touring with Kesha: Alana Lucky on Building a Career in Makeup

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281621/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a></p><p>Link to <a href='https://www.themakeupinsider.com/blog/from-sephora-to-touring-with-kesha-what-12-years-in-makeup-really-looks-like'>blog</a> - all products mentioned linked. </p><p><a href='https://youtu.be/n_8EJakdlfM?si=YFYh7-7MLBgmE1vW'>Watch on Youtube</a></p><p><a href='https://www.instagram.com/alanalucky__/?hl=en'>Alana</a> has been doing makeup for 12 years. She started fresh out of high school, worked the floor at Sephora&apos;s Broadway store, moved to London at 21 with zero plan and a backpack full of kit, built a career doing campaigns for Jaded London, came back to Australia during COVID, assisted the incredible Gillian Campbell, and has most recently been touring the world with Kesha.</p><p>Oh, and she&apos;s now signed with a talent agency for her content. The girl moves.</p><p>In this episode we get into:</p><ul><li>Why working retail at Sephora is the best foundation you&apos;ll ever get (and why it&apos;s also exhausting as hell)</li><li>What it&apos;s actually like to do hair and makeup in London for an Uber-style beauty app</li><li>The Jaded London campaign that changed everything</li><li>COVID killing her momentum right when things were starting to move — and coming back from that</li><li>Assisting Gillian Campbell and why feeling valued on set matters more than people admit</li><li>What a day on tour with Kesha actually looks like (spoiler: you can&apos;t poo on the bus)</li><li>The longevity routine she used to make Kesha&apos;s base last through a full concert</li><li>How a TikTok she almost didn&apos;t post got her 27,000 followers in a month</li><li>Why people don&apos;t care who you are on TikTok — they just want to learn something</li><li>Everything being an exchange and why that&apos;s not a bad thing</li><li>What&apos;s next: Europe, Canada, America and a product line in the works</li></ul><p><a href='https://www.lanaluckymakeup.com'>Website </a></p><p><a href='https://onedaydream.com.au/talent/alana-lucky/'>Talent </a></p><p><a href='https://themakeupinsider.kit.com/baf29ffc50'>The Hair Edit Waitlist</a> </p><p><a href='https://themakeupinsider.kit.com/9666ce6b05'>Weekly Newsletter</a> </p><p><a href='https://www.instagram.com/the.makeupinsider/'>Follow TMI on IG </a></p><p><a href='https://www.instagram.com/vanessabarney/'>Follow Vanessa on IG</a></p><p><a href='https://www.themakeupinsider.com'>The Makeup Insider Blog </a></p><p><a href='https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessa.barney'>The Makeup Insider TikTok</a></p><p><a href='https://themakeupinsider.kit.com/b25a976daa'>The Gifting Checklist</a> </p><p><a href='https://www.themakeupinsider.com/subscribe'> </a></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>