**Hey, I'm Shani. 
(it's pronounced shay-nee)**

I'm the hair and makeup artist your favorite planner calls when their client says "can you find us someone that will make us look editorial but not like we're trying too hard but also is funny and fun to hang with?" I live for the couples who show me mood boards of 1970s Halston campaigns mixed with bold graphic liner and that no-makeup makeup that actually takes an hour.

With over 15 years in the industry and recognition from Glamour and Brides (plus features in Vogue and Vogue Weddings), I work on destination weddings for people who understand that beauty isn't a checkbox on their vendor list. It's art direction. My clients tend to be the ones wearing custom everything, working with planners who are sooooo tired of green and white weddings because same, and hosting celebrations that look like they belong in a gallery, not a Pinterest board.

I only take on a handful of weddings each year because what I do starts the moment I receive an inquiry and continues through your entire wedding weekend. This isn't showing up with a makeup kit and winging it. It's months of strategy sessions, custom vision boards, and creating multiple looks that work in harmony with every single detail of your full weekend celebration.

I'm drawn to clients who have stories, who want to play, and who trust me to create something that feels distinctly them. Not a carbon copy of everyone else's big day. I want the couples who bring me reference photos from art installations and ask if we can translate that energy to their face. I want the ones who say "we're having our ceremony in a cuctum built structure built to mimic a brutalist chapel and want our beauty to feel like that but also romantic?"

The answer is always yes.

When I'm not traveling the world, I'm at home in Nashville with my husband Jesse and our boys, who think what I do for a living is "put makeup on fancy people" (accurate) and "travel" (also accurate). I'm also the founder of Canvas + Coif and The Artist Association, building a beauty empire that empowers artists across the industry.

Named a top beauty expert by
Glamour and Brides.

I make people look like the main character in their own life.
The weirder your vision, the more I want to work with you.

SHANI GAILBREATH

5.1.25 - 5.3.25
Shani was an absolute rockstar over my wedding weekend! She arrived early on Thursday to do my hair and makeup preview.
 I loved every look and was even more excited for my wedding day after this experience! Shani is professional, kind, and her energy helped keep me calm throughout a stressful weekend. She showed up ready to work! I trusted her with my beauty looks for our Friday night welcome party, Saturday wedding day, and then she stayed to help with hair and make up for my sparkly dance floor outfit change.
She gave me the bra off her own back when mine wasn't working out with my dress change! I felt so beautiful and confident in every look Shani did for me.
Do not hesitate in hiring this queen! She is the BEST xx