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June 11, 2025 • 16 mins

The TouchUp is your new beauty BFF in podcast form—hosted by celebrity makeup and hair artists Tarryn Feldman and Mari Brown, who are known for their work with top names in country music, TV, and pop culture. Whether it’s red-carpet secrets, everyday glam hacks, or behind-the-scenes moments with the stars, Tarryn and Mari deliver it all with quick wit, candid advice, and contagious laughter.

Today's episode is packed with star power. It features Caroline Bryan, wife of country superstar Luke Bryan, who reveals her must-have products and tells hilarious behind-the-scenes stories from years of working with Tarryn on the Bryan family’s iconic “Christmas Vacation” themed holiday cards—as well as a surprise Golden Girls-themed shoot with her girlfriends styled by Mari. The episode also includes a moving conversation with Brittney Kelley, wife of Brian Kelley, who opens up about a traumatic experience in her teenage years that reshaped her life and ultimately led her to launch her ethical clothing brand, Tribe Kelley. Rounding out the episode is Danielle Bradbery, who reflects on working with Tarryn and Mari since she was just 16, fresh off The Voice. Now in her late-20s, Danielle looks back on her growth as an artist and the creative bond she shares with the duo.

Enjoy some of our favorite moments of The TouchUp podcast so far, and join us every Wednesday for new episodes! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi guys. I'm Taren, I'm Mari, and we are The
Touch Up Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are two celebrity makeup artists living in Nashville, best friends,
and about a year ago we decided to start a podcast.
Obviously it's beauty, but it's also lifestyle. It's fashion, fashion giggles.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, it's like hardcore girl talk. Yeah, it's just getting
to know a new friend. Yes, you're an old friend. Yes.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Every week we have different guests on and it's just
a lot of fun. What we are doing today is
we're putting a little sampler platter august a shark Cooterie
of little bits of our favorite moments, just for you
guys to listen to, just to kind of see if
you want a vibe with us or not.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
We've got Caroline Bryan, who is married.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
To Brian Bryan, just a small indie artist you might know,
Luke Bryan, Thomas Bryan. We have Daniel Bradbury, the voice
of an Angel, a dear friend of ours.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's a really fun episode.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You guys are going to enjoy that one, and Miss
Brittany Kelly. We just wanted to put a little sampler
platter together for you guys to listen to and hopefully
subscribe and listen to us every week.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Just a silly little podcast, Just a fun, silly podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Exactly before we let you guys go, though, I just
wanted to say a huge congratulations to us for being
so awesome that Bobby Bones wanted to sign us yeah
onto his podcast hour. But thank you so much Bobby
and the Natural Podcast Network for taking a chance on us.
We're really excited to be a part of the family,

(01:35):
and we're excited to be a part of the iHeart family.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Enjoy this little snippet, and we.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Hope you come back and continue to join us every
Wednesday to listen to the touch Up Podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're going to come back. I think they're going to
come back. I think I have a really strong feeling too.
You're going to come back.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Okay, okay, all right, see you later. Hi, get a
little such up.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm Karen, I'm Mari, and you're listening to the touch Up.
We hope you're picking up a we're putting.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Down Brian the wonderful, beautiful, hot sexony, blind.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hype girl, thank you, singer singer mom and none of
those have a mom like.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I literally have.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
The pranking queen, I've been out of touch for that
for a while. But a little break, You're so I
feel like it's so saturated now. Everywhere turned, somebody's doing
pranks or prank show. And then when I went through
the dreaded hip surgery, I just kind of took a
step back from a lot of social media because I
think everybody needs a break. I took a long break,

(02:45):
and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
She likes the prank I do. I love a girl
scare somebody's like face.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
That's why I did a lot of slow mo was
watching their face when they yeah, I mean, because it's
just it's perfect.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
The ones where like people paint their faces black and
then stand in like just a dark nod pupils.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Of their eyes.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Was like that's yeah, wow blinking.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
No, we all have that one person who like if
you go to scare them, they're like they hate you
for it.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Like my mother in law. That's what I had to
calm down pranking her because she legit got pissed at me.
Oh really, she got scared a couple of times and
now she misses it. My mom, like you don't miss
it but is yes.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh my god, what's her name again? Leclaire? Okay man Leclaire?

Speaker 5 (03:34):
No, we call her a Hurricane Salem because she smoked
Salem's and when she comes into a room, it's like
a hurricane.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Long.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
I think they're like in the green or something. I
bought a box once and box them well, how to
take it back? Because she told me I got the
wrong one, okay, and so I went to exchange them
at the grocery store and the girl was cracking up.
I was like, I don't have a cigarettes like I
just she told me I just got that one.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
How long have we known each other? I met you? Yeah,
I think I just like did your glam or something.
And then it was so cool.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
And then every year you and Luke, my old friend
that I used to like do lots of photoshoots with.
We would do all your Christmas cards and you would
always redo a scene from Christmas Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Our family. Our family is we are the grismall you are.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
We are Lucas Clark.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
First time I met you, you were doing a shoot
with your best friends.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, oh yes, that was so.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Thank you for a man. FRIDL.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, that was so much time. We went out to
eat in character and the people just stared us like
they didn't know what to think. They didn't they truly,
they truly were trying to figure out if we were
senior citizens yeah, like really older, or if we were
just being idiots going to a Halloween party.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
It was legit. Oh it looks like so good?

Speaker 6 (04:53):
How did you make up for Carolyn Brian and her
friends are doing a Golden shoot photoshoot.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
I was like, for what it was for Halloween, but
if we just want We talked about it forever and
I was like, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah. I know you're a product junkie as much as
I am any, but.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Tell me more about like your skincare routine and like,
what are your favorite favorite favorite must have things?

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Favorite things I use Every morning I use paleronic acid
serum and sometimes I use a brightening serum and then
always sunscreen because I have to. And at night at
night lamire cream.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh I love that. God, no, it's it's worth. It
feels good.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
So those are my go tos that I will always
have and.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I love them too because it never irritates me or
breaks me out?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Is that what luxury is and you get every draw
out of it, like you.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Feel like my credit's going there. But the oil is
so good, so good.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Shout out Lamire in front of the pod. What other
brands do you die for make up?

Speaker 5 (05:58):
I love Clay de po I do. I've made so
many friends pissed at me because because their foundation, I mean,
it's not cheap. It will last me months because you
don't have to use much sure, and so they've tried
it and now they're like, okay, I'm hooked now. Yeah,
and they're like, almost spend one hundred bucks on foundation,
and I know that that is how much it is,
but it will last me month, So don't don't judge

(06:20):
me for spending that much.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'm like having a vision of you in a yellow dress.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
I were yellow to my niece's wedding. It was the
most beautiful dress, most beautiful yellow dress. And that night,
I mean, her friends and our family just had a ball.
I slipped and when I sat down, no, I know,
I sat in somebody's vomits. Oh no, thank god, it
was the.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Very end somebody it was vomits.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yes, thank god, it was the very end of the night.
And this is gross. There was a certain part of
the floor that was slippery and I slipped and when
I sat I heard squish. Oh wow, And I stood
up and I was like did I And my friend
was like, you just said huge?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Sorry kind on that note, see you later.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Tune in every Wednesdays new episode of a beauty podcast
that has nothing to do with beauty.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Hey, daniel Bradberry. I know. Also, no, I've known you
since you were sixteen. Yeah, wow, you're I'm twenty eight eight.
Oh my god, I'm forty one. I'm forty four. That'st
I know.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
And you came in not long after.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Not long after.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Yeah, you were just a little baby. That's why I
haven't seen you in so long. And watching you walk
in in this new with Coffee Woman Danielle Bradberry like
this energy and this light and this fire about you
feel we got to talk about your journey, girl.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's been a journey.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I've been on a journey an Yeah, are you
on a label currently?

Speaker 6 (08:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Okay, love that for you.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
I was on it for ten years.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah. When did you clean house?

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Like two days ago?

Speaker 6 (08:18):
I love that?

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Okay. I didn't want to, like, that's why I didn't
want to say I feel about it.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
I feel good good, I feel good. I'm therapy.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah I am.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
And I walked in the other day and she's like,
you look fresh. Yeah, I'm like.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
You can tell that.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
The very real thing energy like your vibe is that
you walked in glowing.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
You got this energy.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Danielle Bradberry, I literally just told one of my best
friends last night.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I text her.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
I was like, I feel like a weight is lifted.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
She's like, as you should. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
This isn't just because I've known you for a hundred
years and because I love you, but you truly have
one of, if not like, the best voices in this town.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
May I Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Please that video of you with your body, wait which one?
Your body was just you and your body. It was
like wearing like a leotard.

Speaker 8 (09:06):
Yeah, beautiful song.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I commented like in all caps on it and.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I think.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
No one in all caps.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
But that was not it was hot.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
I think that whole thing, everything video pictures, it was
just something I needed to do.

Speaker 8 (09:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
The amount of comments that I get, Oh, she's changed,
she's gone to pop and.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
What do people think, Like, are you supposed to stay
a little girl for you know a little. You're not
doing so and evolve and transcend. That's so whack. Why
did I just have a vision that I want you
and Tory Kelly to do something? Do you know her?

Speaker 7 (09:47):
Everyone keeps saying that, Okay, weird, your visions are something
I get, like.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
Weird, You're like Teresa Computer, like.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
So many people have told me this.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Okay, like recently, Okay, that is crazy you So you
guys are actually very similar. I've worked with her a
couple of times.

Speaker 8 (10:07):
I love her.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Do something with her. Okay, can we dive into boys? Okay, boyfriend?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay, wait please, Okay, So you guys have been together
for a year.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
And a half. But okay, it's so healthy.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
It's the hardest one I've ever been in because it's
so healthy.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
You explain that, please.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Because I came from toxic relationships. I was so used
to that.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah, and then I had the biggest trust issues, in securities,
all these things. And then I get in with this
one and he's stable, he's secure, he has a good job.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
It has been.

Speaker 7 (10:43):
The hardest, like trusting him and not bringing Pattish up.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
Was there a moment where he went, I don't know
if this is going to work out. Danielle.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
We've had a lot of hard conversations, and what's also
different is we don't have screw matches for the first
time in my life.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Wow, that's all I know. How old is he?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
He's twenty seven, but he is so much beyond his years.
I mean, we have our moments. We've had our disagreements.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
Everyone does, obviously, Yeah, and we fought, but it's not
like so toxic. Yeah, it's like we actually have conversations
and we're disagreeing, but then we always come back around
and we say sorry, Yeah, I know, we apologize.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I love you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yah, yeah, we love Thanks for coming, Brittany Kelly, you
have such a good face to do.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Glamb on you. Thank you? Yeah you have? You have
good faith?

Speaker 8 (11:38):
Now are you all proud of me? I'm doing my
makeup so good for them?

Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's a French girl chic. Yeah, you always do a
beautiful job. You are such the epitome of like laid back.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Beach by my God, beauty shredded Narner?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do you shred Narner?

Speaker 8 (11:54):
I don't shred a lot of but I will, but
I will get on like.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
A long board.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
And what's your story. We'd love to know where you're from.

Speaker 8 (12:08):
Where I'm from. I'm from this tiny little town called
flow Villa, Georgia.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, yeah, you sound like you're from Georgia. It's very faint.

Speaker 8 (12:17):
When I go back home, they're like, you lost your
eggs used to out there, but if you can imagine,
they think I lost it.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 8 (12:24):
But yeah, it's a tiny little town in Georgia. I
grew up with my grandmother, just us.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
To really yeah yeah wow.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
So we were like to she's still here, She's not.
She she passed away tragically when I was seventeen, in
this terrible situation. But yeah, I was kind of on
my own at seventeen and just flew the coop. Went
straight to college.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Did you go to college?

Speaker 8 (12:46):
Started off at Georgia Southern, then I transferred into u GA.
I wasn't smart enough to originally get into u GA.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Blew up.

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well, Nana worked literally two jobs to send me to
private school. So I was kind of like this black sheep,
Like I literally grew up in like a trailer, but
I went to private school, so like was around all
these kids not normal.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
One of my one of my girlfriends literally like would
land on the baseball field in her helicopter, like if
she was late to school.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (13:10):
So it was like very like black Sheep vibes, Like
I definitely didn't feel like I fit in, but I
got a great education, play a lot of sports. Yeah,
I went to kind of was on my own at seventeen,
went to college.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Did all your friends there know your story like where
you came from to or was?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (13:24):
I mean I don't know how deep y'all want to
get the story or how deep y'all get but want
to share. You know, she was killed at my house,
your grandmother. Yes, it was like it was like a
murder suicide situation. And I'm good now talking about it. Yeah,
but so everybody in my class knew. It was like
an absolute like uproar in the city. It was by
the guy she was dating.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Oh my god.

Speaker 8 (13:45):
So it was Yeah. I've had some time to heal
from it, luckily, but it was pretty gnarly situation. Seventeen.
It was right before Christmas, in the middle of my
senior year, so it really did just like blow my
life up.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's so sorry. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 8 (14:01):
Wild and so yeah, I just was on my own,
I finished.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
School, went to on your own.

Speaker 8 (14:08):
Yeah, no, it really did make me the person I need?

Speaker 1 (14:10):
How could it not?

Speaker 8 (14:11):
So I studied psychology because of it because I was
like I got to figure my brain out, like I
want to help other people, Like I instantly went into
therapy like it was this whole journey. Well you know,
my parents were addicts and so it was like a
big reflection of like, hey, I have like two paths
like totally tap out and and be what my family's

(14:31):
circumstances or I was like I remember kind of like
having an aha moments like you know what life's like monopoly,
Like let me just see if I can just what
I can squeeze out of it, you know, just like Powerhouse,
like went in that direction and just did it. Like
I got a job like I was like working at
Buffalo Wild Wing. Yeah and yeah, I just like went

(14:57):
through school like I like applied for scholarship like just
made it happen, and finally got into Georgia learned psychology
Like I was like wow, like really understood the brain
and like developmental psychology and like helped a lot of
other people on my journey and me and my now
husband of almost twelve years.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Who's your husband?

Speaker 8 (15:15):
And it was, oh, you're married, Brian, and so yeah,
I mean I just really put my head down in school.
I started a business at the time. It was called
wonder Town. It was like handmade jewelry and custom T shirts.
And I would basically go like to this downtown like
thrift shop and get all this broken jewelry for free.
And I would just try to make all this stuff.

(15:37):
And you were still in Georgia. I was at Georgia. Yeah, okay.
When I went to Uga, I was like, I have
to like put my hands in something. Yeah, what's the quote.
It's like idle hands or the Devil's play.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, and creative, Like you needed to be creative and I.

Speaker 8 (15:47):
Need to be doing something. And so yeah, I got
into like jewelry making, and like I was going on
some mission trips and like bringing back some like goods
from Guatemala and like selling them and kind of incorporating
charity begin Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, and I loved it like that.

Speaker 8 (16:00):
That's kind of where I discovered I love customers like
I love customer service. One of my favorite thing to
do is like connect with the customer, make something custom
like write them a little, Yeah, rapid and something to them. Yeah,
something about that was firing me up inside.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
I practically got married my last semester and hopped on
a tour bus with like twelve dudes.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Wait, so you knew Brian.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
That's a funny story, y'all.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't know that story right now.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
No, but me and BK met while we were dating siblings.
We met in Thanksgivings. Wow.
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