Makeup for the video
Nia Voss does makeup for music videos, album covers and tour: glitter, chrome and face gems that hold under strobes, sweat and twelve takes. Booked by the day. Kit room in West Midtown, Atlanta; flies to sets.
00:14 / Verse 1
01:02 / Chrome
02:30 / Cover
03:11 / OutroDiscography
Showing 6 of 184 credits, 2025 to now. Titles and artists changed until release day.
NEW Kenna Rue · 2026
Music videoMakeup: Nia Voss
Red neon, glitter to the brow bone, baby hair laid with a toothbrush and a lot of gel. Held for nineteen takes.
Amari Lux · 2026
Music video, Los AngelesMakeup: Nia Voss
Liquid chrome lid, liner cut with tape, one stone at the outer corner. Reset between every setup.
Sable Thornwell · 2026
Album coverMakeup: Nia Voss
Bleached brows, cobalt light, a sheen that reads as sweat but is glycerin and oil, mixed on set.
Dez Holloway · 2025
Album coverMakeup: Nia Voss
Frosted brows and wet skin under one hard strobe. No powder at all: the shine is the point.
Kenna Rue · 2025
Tour, HoustonMakeup: Nia Voss
Four dancers, one liner shape, drawn to a stencil so it matches from the balcony. Sweat-proofed for a ninety-minute set.
Mirelle Okon · 2025
Music video, New YorkMakeup: Nia Voss
Crystal gems set like tears for the last chorus, placed one by one with lash glue so they come off clean at wrap.
Tracklist
Same rate for an indie single and a major-label video. Kit included; custom-cut stone pieces at cost.
12 hours from call, one artist in the chair, all looks and touch-ups
Up to 6 hours, one artist, two looks, in the studio or on location
Rehearsals, up to five shows, the artist plus one dancer
For dancers or a crew of extras, so the lead never waits
Past 12 hours, billed in half hours
Outside metro Atlanta, half rate; flights and hotel at cost
Hidden track $200 holds the date and comes off the invoice. Multi-video runs get a written quote. Hold the date →
Nia Voss · on set
Where Nia is working and the days still open. Days fill about six weeks out.
2026
2027
Metro Atlanta included · Athens, Macon, Chattanooga: half-rate travel day + mileage · Anywhere you fly her: $550 travel day, flights + hotel at cost
The shoot night
A twelve-hour video day as it plays out. Night exteriors are always on side B.
A Kit up in the glam room or the trailer. Every shade checked under the DP’s light, red gel and strobe included, before anyone sits.
90 minutes for a full glitter or chrome look, 45 for skin and a lip. Dancers with the second artist next door.
Performance pass, interior, strobes. Nia stands at the monitor with a kit bag and goes in between takes, not after them.
B Thirty minutes. Chrome off, gems on. Planned on the look sheet the week before, so it is never a surprise.
The parking lot: haze, cold, a fan, sweat after every take. Blotting, re-sealing, a stone back on. This is where most makeup quits.
The face in the last take matches the face in the first. Gems off with remover, not fingernails.
Liner notes
I learned on a drill team. Thirty girls, one bathroom, eight minutes to halftime, and every face had to read from the top of the bleachers.
After that I worked a makeup counter in Buckhead for three years, where I learned every complexion in the city and how to match it in under a minute, because the next person was already waiting.
My first video was a favor: a friend’s cousin, a rented warehouse, one light and a fog machine that set off the alarm. The glitter I used was from a craft store. Never again. I spent the next two years assisting on sets around Atlanta, watching what melts, what flakes and what a strobe does to shimmer you thought looked fine in the mirror.
Now I test everything under your light before the artist sits down, and I stay on set until wrap. Fixing it between takes is cheaper than fixing it in post.
— Nia
Gear used on this record
Press
Nineteen directors have booked a second video.
“Take nineteen at 1 AM, fog machine running, and the glitter was exactly where it was at take one.”
Dre M. · Director, Atlanta“She tested the chrome under my strobe before the artist sat down. Nobody had ever asked for my light first.”
Simone K. · Director of photography“Six weeks, five cities, four dancers. Same liner every night, drawn to a stencil she cut herself.”
Tasha L. · Tour manager“The look sheet came on Monday. Every product, every minute. We came in two hours under schedule.”
Corey B. · Producer, an indie labelBonus tracks
Twelve hours from call time, with dinner. Music videos run long, so the day is built for it. Past twelve hours it is $140 an hour in half hours.
It holds the date and it comes off the invoice. If the shoot moves, the hold moves with it once, within 60 days.
That is the job. Everything is tested under your lights at call, sealed for sweat and fog, and Nia stays on set between takes with a kit bag.
Only cosmetic-grade glitter goes near the eyes, never craft glitter. Gems go on with lash glue and come off with remover at wrap.
Yes, with a second artist for $500 a day, so the lead never waits. For big crews the second artist works from a look sheet and a stencil.
Often: Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Miami. A travel day is $550, half the day rate, and flights and hotel are at cost. Metro Atlanta is included.
After the release date, yes, on request. Never before. The releases on this page use made-up titles for that reason.
W-9 and a certificate of insurance on request, invoices net 15. Your treatment and a lighting plan with the hold, please.
Studio session
A kit room and a test chair in a warehouse by the rail yard. Tests on weekdays, by appointment. Sets anywhere.
Out on your shoot date
Pick the shoot date and hold it with $200. Nia texts you within the day for the treatment, the call time and the lighting plan.
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