The Charleston Makeup Artist

About Bella Segreto

Bella Segreto, Italian for “beautiful secret,” offers friendly, professional onsite makeup application for formal events, runway, pageants, and television/film productions in Charleston, South Carolina and surrounding regions.

We know that like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two people are exactly alike. That is why we staff a team of artists, each favoring selected styles but all versatile in their application of makeup for varied skin tones and ethnicities.

Each session is tailored specifically to you. Whether you want to be flawlessly natural or daring and dramatic, our makeup specialists can deliver the look you’re seeking.

Tiffany Carnahan
Senior Artist | Owner

Tiffany’s exposure to cosmetics began at the age of three when her father bought her a small gift that, unbeknownst to him, would have a lifelong impact on her life.

“I remember my mother saying to my dad that he ‘should not have bought that’ as he placed a gift set of six nail polishes in front of me.”

That single moment began Tiffany’s lifelong fascination with makeup.

Blessed with an olive complexion and mediterranean skin, Tiffany’s mother wears no makeup and has very little knowledge on the subject of cosmetics, which made it hard for her mother to answer Tiffany’s lip gloss and mascara questions as a teenager.

“My mother did not need to worry about wrinkles at thirty, something I am extremely grateful for now that I too am in my thirties, but it meant having to look elsewhere for advice.”

At age fifteen, her mother took her to a cosmetics counter at a local department store where she first learned about skin care and color selection.

In high school and college, Tiffany studied theatrical and stage makeup which proved to be a useful skill when she began performing on stage. When she was eighteen, she took her stage experience to the next level when she began competing in local, state and national pageants.

Not satisfied with her limited knowledge of glamour makeup application, Tiffany began private instruction with a respected Hollywood makeup artist. After her pageant career had ended, she turned her focus to others, becoming a makeup artist for stage, television, and photography.

After seven years of working part-time in the cosmetics industry as an advisor and regional artists, she devoted herself to a full-time career in cosmetics management and artist training. She spent several years traveling throughout both North and South Carolina for National Makeup Artist events where she worked alongside some of the most respected artists in the industry.

“The years I have spent working with so many wonderful people have made me realize the truth in my favorite quote from my beauty icon Sophia Loren. She said, ‘Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.’ The idea that beauty is an attitude is my Bella Segreto.”

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