Kiam Barrese

Kiam Barrese works as a hair and makeup artist at The Queen of Glam and is the founder of Backstage Beauty & Cosmetix. She is a beauty entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in the beauty industry. She holds the title Master Cosmetologist.

Her screen work includes celebrity makeup and head of makeup department roles. She is credited as hair and makeup department head on the vertical micro drama Scandalous Bloodline Lies, and as makeup department head on productions for Tubi, BET+ and Hulu. Commercial credits include work for Nike, Colgate, Target, Zepbound and TNT Sports. Her credits include a 2025 NYT Commercial of the Year award for a Nike commercial.

She wrote The Blueprint, a book drawing on those three decades in the industry, and was a featured panelist on the Knot Just Hair segment at the HEBS Hair Education Beauty Summit at the Meadowlands Expo Center. Client reviews on the site praise her precision cuts and short-hair work. She is based between New York and Atlanta.