Le Visage Refinery
Every mobile makeup artist's price is hidden in a DM.
Le Visage Refinery puts it on the page. Find an artist who comes to you, see what each service actually costs, and hold your date with a signed contract and a deposit — without typing a single message.
We email you once, when artists near you are bookable. Your details are never sold and never handed to an artist before a booking is paid.
Booking one today
Four artists. Two replies. One price.
Finding someone talented is the easy part — Instagram is full of extraordinary work. The hard part starts the moment you want to know what it costs and whether she is free.
So you ask. And you ask again. And six weeks out from the day itself, you are still holding a text thread instead of a booking, with no contract behind it and no way to hold the date.
It is not that artists are disorganised. It is that a DM inbox is being asked to do the work of a calendar, a price list, a contract and an invoice — all at once, between jobs, on a phone.
What replaces it
The price is the page. The contract is the booking.
Four things happen in a fixed order, and you see all four before you enter a card.
Pick the service and the date
Her real calendar, her published price per service, her travel fee and her minimum. No quote request, no waiting.
Read the contract, then sign it
The full agreement — price, arrival time, headcount, cancellation terms — rendered and signed before any card is entered.
Deposit holds the date
Charged once, at booking. The date is off her calendar from that moment. The amount is on the page before you start.
Balance clears 24 hours before
Automatically, at the price you agreed. No Venmo on the morning, no surprise line item, no chasing anyone afterwards.
Against what you use now
The honest comparison
Instagram wins on discovery and always will — we link to hers rather than trying to replace it. Everything after "are you available?" is the part nobody has built.
| Instagram DMs | Lead-gen sites | Wedding directories | Le Visage Refinery | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price visible before you ask | no | estimate only | no | on the page |
| Date actually held | a promise | no | no | deposit |
| Written contract | rarely | no | no | signed in-flow |
| Who the business charges | nobody | the artist, per lead | the artist, for placement | a completed booking |
| Can an artist pay to rank higher | n/a | yes | yes | never |
For artists
Stop quoting the same seven prices twenty times a week.
Publish your services once. Clients arrive knowing what you charge, what you include and how far you travel — so the people who message you are the people who already agreed to your number.
Your cancellation terms stop being a sentence in a DM and become the contract the client signed. The balance clears itself the day before. You keep your clients, your brand and your Instagram.
- $0 To list, and to claim your profile Free permanently, not a trial. You are charged only when you are paid.
- 15% Of the service subtotal, on a completed booking Taken out of payout. Travel fees and tips pass through to you in full.
- $0 Per lead, ever We don't sell leads and we don't sell placement. If you aren't booked, we earn nothing.
- 24h Before the appointment, the balance clears At the price in the signed contract. Nothing to chase on the day.
Where this actually is, today
Every directory you have ever opened claimed to have thousands of vetted professionals on day one. Here is the real state of this one.
- We are pre-launch. Nothing is bookable yet. The forms above join a list, and that is all they do.
- San Diego first. Booking, deposits and contracts get proven with a small number of real artists on real clients before the directory opens anywhere else.
- No reviews, no ratings, no counts. We have not had a booking, so there is nothing to average. When there is, you will see the distribution, not a filtered number.
- Most profiles will start unclaimed. A listing built from public information shows no price and cannot be booked — because that artist has not agreed to anything. She can claim it free, or have it removed the same day she asks.