We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kyle Ryan Nagle. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kyle Ryan below.

Kyle Ryan , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

The first time I picked up a makeup brush I knew this was going to be the medium to change my world. I have always been artistic and loved crafting and creating. I always loved the idea of working in the beauty space because of having a mother and aunt who were both beauticians but I never wanted to do hair and be behind a chair. It always scared me. I saw how much work it was and it never clicked.

When I was a fresh man in high school in 2009 makeup really become a big thing because of Youtube and Social media. Girls started wearing heavier foundation and the color didn’t always match the skin tone (orange, ashy skin), Spray tans, a lot of heavy eye makeup like black smudged eyeliner and Paled out concealer lips was such a trend. It was truly so bad.

My best friend Lena came to school one day with foundation and it was just too dark. I secretly wanted to start wearing makeup so I told her we should go to the drug store after school and both buy some new makeup and find “our color”. That was the moment I found my passion for makeup and the idea of working in the beauty industry came to life.

I started to build a collection of drug store makeup and I heavily started watching YouTube videos. My makeup collection began to grow and I started practicing on myself in the mirror every chance I had.

I used to watch youtubers Michelle Phan, Queen of Blending, Panacea81 ,Enkore Makeup, Gregory Gorgeous ( now Gigi Gorgeous), Petrilude and Allthatglitters21

I stuck with learning and practicing beauty and FX makeup through the remaining 4 years of high school and when I was 17 and a senior I found the schools Cinerma Makeup School in LA and Makeup Designory in NYC and I really wanted to take the next step and study makeup as a trade when I graduated highschool. I was interested in moving to LA but I toured both school and truly felt like I was at home at MUD NYC. After I graduated high school I attended Makeup Designory (MUD)

Kyle Ryan , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I had to learn how to turn learning makeup starting at the age 14 as a young boy on YouTube to moving to NYC at 17 as a dreamer to study at Makeup Designory into becoming a professinal full-time working artist and I thought after I finished makeup school I would simply start booking and instantly start working as a PRO in the industry but was it wrong!!! LOL

I was completely wrong! I ended up moving back to PA and back into my parents and I worked at my families restaurant (Georgine’s in Bristol, PA) part time banquet serving and bussing tables but I never not stopped doing makeup on the side.

I was always a true dreamer and I knew I would make all my dreams come to life. When someone told me I couldn’t make it doing makeup, I always had to prove them wrong. I later got into the makeup retail space for brands like Sephora, Mac Cosmetics, Makeup Desingory (MUD Shop) and supergoop to help me be able to pay bills but not lose my passion for the industry.

I started testing with photographers in NYC and Philly who I found on instagram using hashtags like #nycphotographer #fashionphotohgrapher and I would travel in the cities and callobs with other artists and teams of creatives. It all started to snow ball into working on magazine submissions, small paid projects but firstly I found a book called “assisting rules” by my now friend and mentor Deshawn Hatcher. It changed my world. It taught me about the gift of assisting and working in the fashion, commercial makeup space and getting paid to do so.

I started assisting other artists who are now my mentors like my mentor (D’angelo Thompson) who I met at Makeup Designory who in 2013 who was at the time we met the lead promo makeup artist at MTV. I remember he brought me on set for MTV for work for the VMAS Promos and I was so scared. I was not prepared at all!!! I had no hair kit, I remember he kept letting me used things out of his kit which was fine but I remember feeling so unprepared but that day I learned all I truly needed to be to be able to accommodate every type of person who sat in my chair and makeup them feel as equaully beautiful as the next. This moment changed my out look on Universal beauty and clean makeup whited started to become who I was as a artist. I learned how to do makeup on every shade of complexion and how to build a true hair and makeup kit.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

What always helped me was never losing sight of who I was and what I wanted. I always remained who I am, followed my heart and dreamed big.

I always had a clean, simple makeup style and loved creating more natural makeups and I remember friends of my family wouldn’t book me to do makeup because they wanted more glam style which at the time I moved back from NYC and had that editorial clean makeup style. Its wasn’t that I couldn’t do that style, it was just not who I was and what I wanted. But I later realized all the business and profit in bridal, working with real woman for events and commercial makeup clients.

I always stuck to myself and worked hard for almost 10 years. Testing, traveling, educating myself, assisting others and working on my craft and it all started to stick and grow.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I truly wish I learned the gift of community and assisting others. I truly have learned the most in this industry working along side others. It is things money can not buy!! Pure knowledge.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.kyleryanbeauty.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/kyleryanbeauty
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/kyleryanbeauty

Image Credits
Image 1 – Deshawn Hatcher ( Author of “Assting Rules”, Makeup Mentor and Celebrity Artist) and Myself at Makeup Show NYC at GRAFTOBIAN Makeup Booth (2023) Image 2 – Behind the scenes shot of me touching up talent on Test shoot day with both Dash Talents and James Talent Group (2022) photo by Noel Calubaquib Images 3- A shot of my makeup + hair set up for Real Woman magazine cover shoot when I worked for the First Lady of New Jersey Tammy Snyder Murphy (2023) Image 4- Touching up agency model A’maya Lynne for Vera Melissa Photography One light setup workshop (2023) photo by Vera Melissa