Over more than a decade, Marta Walsh built one of the era's most-read independent beauty and fashion publishing networks — and was featured, quoted, and photographed across the press and alongside the people who defined the industry. A selection is below.
Publications and platforms that featured Marta Walsh and her beauty & fashion network.
Marta’s crossover from beauty publishing to real estate, featured by Inman in an article by Mary Umberger. “‘I have an obsession about beauty products,’ said Walsh, who began TalkingMakeup.com after her husband suggested she start a blog… Her blog now attracts about 160,000 unique visitors a month.”
“Blogging Babes: Meet Marta of TalkingMakeup.com and BeautyInterviews.com.” Glamour profiled Marta among the independent voices shaping online beauty.
Talking Makeup’s Beauty Interviews section was singled out by the UK’s Telegraph: “Made for beauty fanatics, this site features interviews with the founders behind the beauty brands… Diane Hammond of Nailtiques, Pop Beauty’s Sara Strand and Ken Paves — once called Hollywood’s hottest hairstylist — have all been cross-examined. Even Dr Rodriguez, the LA dermatologist behind Aveeno, gives advice on caring for sensitive skin.”
“Beauty Expert Marta Walsh Talks Kardashians, Spring Trends and Wrinkle-Free Skin.” From the interview: “There is something to be said about a woman who conquered New York University’s Stern School of Business, worked on Wall Street and left it all behind to start a beauty blog… a haven for no-fluff celebrity interviews with everyone from Khloé Kardashian to Heidi Klum.”
In a “Beauty View” feature, Cosmopolitan Hong Kong profiled Marta Walsh as a New York–based beauty columnist and founder of two beauty websites, celebrated for interviewing makeup artists, fashion designers, and celebrities about their beauty secrets. Her takeaway, as the magazine put it: the most effective anti-aging secret isn’t Botox or expensive skincare, but a lifestyle of self-love and positive thinking.
A second spread from the same feature.
Talking Makeup featured in the LA Daily News, March 18, 2008.
For the 10th anniversary of Ralph Lauren’s Pink Pony foundation, the designer selected 100 bloggers to model the latest Pink Pony polo in support of a cure for cancer. Marta was among them.
Marta contributed to “You deserve the best… deodorant” by Kristina Mastrocola: “When the heat rises in Arizona, beauty expert Marta Walsh (TalkingMakeup.com) turns to what she calls ‘magic deodorant.’”
Photographed at the Scottsdale Fashion Week 2009 launch party at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa, Paradise Valley, Arizona.
TalkingMakeup.com was named to GLAM’s Top Global Fashion Blogs in the United States — Glam.com called it “one of the best blogs in the United States.”
Front-row and backstage — the designers, artists, and industry figures who defined the era.
Marta with Salma Hayek in New York City.
Marta Walsh — TalkingMakeup.com founder and Scottsdale & Paradise Valley REALTOR® — with skincare mogul Kate Somerville at Neiman Marcus, Scottsdale AZ.
Marta Walsh with Kate Somerville at Neiman Marcus, Scottsdale AZ.
L to R: Katherine Thornhill of Sparkle Farkle Diary and Marta Walsh, North Scottsdale REALTOR® and founder of TalkingMakeup.com.
“I’m a huge fan of fashion designer Chris Benz. I met him backstage at his Fall 2010 fashion show and he was the sweetest to take a photo and interview with me.”
L to R: Zahir Ziani, National Creative Director at Red Door Spas Elizabeth Arden, and TalkingMakeup.com founder Marta Walsh.
L to R: Tom Pecheux and Marta Walsh at the Peter Som Fall 2010 show. Pecheux is a renowned makeup artist and Estée Lauder’s Creative Makeup Director.
L to R: Marta Walsh and Evelyn Lauder at the Estée Lauder Companies offices in New York City.
Marta Walsh with Milly’s designer Michelle Smith at the Milly for Clinique cosmetics-bag launch at Bloomingdale’s 59th Street, New York City, 2010.
Marta Walsh with club-kid icon Richie Rich, who co-launched Heatherette in 1999.
L to R: Michael Etedgi, CEO of AHAVA, backstage at the Yigal Azrouël Fall 2010 show.
With producer Robert Reynolds, founder of Reynolds & Associates, who filmed Marta’s FASHION & STYLE interview.
L to R: Nadine Jolie, Natasha Bedingfield, and Marta Walsh at the John Frieda Blonde Entourage event.
Marta Walsh with LA-based fashion designer Kevan Hall at Scottsdale Fashion Week 2010.
L to R: Marta Walsh and Tim Quinn — Giorgio Armani’s Celebrity Face Designer and National Director of Creative Artistry (2009).
Marta Walsh with celebrity publicist BJ Coleman — President and CEO of Coleman Entertainment Group.
Marta Walsh with Lancôme’s lead makeup artist Daniel Martin, backstage at the Chris Benz Fall 2010 show.
“Meeting NOH8 founders Jeff Parshley and Adam Bouska and photographing for the cause was one of the most amazing things I’ve done. I always wanted to be part of a movement that helps the world become better, smarter, more loving.” Marta Walsh for NOH8, photographed by co-founder Adam Bouska.
Marta Walsh with NOH8 Campaign founders Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley at her own photo shoot for the cause in Los Angeles, August 2010.