Chiefs WAGs Makeup Artist Breaks Down Whirlwind 24Hour Travel Day Doing Glam for Super Bowl (Exclusive) Luke ChinmanOctober 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM 0 Dr. Jen White; Visuals By Tania Joey Diaz Joey Diaz, a 30yearold Kansas Citybased makeup artist, is no stranger to a hectic glam day — but there's nothing like Super Bowl Sunday In an interview with PEOPLE, he recounts his whirlwind 24hour travel day to do makeup for Chiefs WAGs when they played in the Super Bowl last year "I was just a boy with a dream," he summarizes the experience Joey Diaz is no stranger to a hectic glam day.
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Joey Diaz, a 30-year-old Kansas City-based makeup artist, is no stranger to a hectic glam day — but there's nothing like Super Bowl Sunday
In an interview with PEOPLE, he recounts his whirlwind 24-hour travel day to do makeup for Chiefs WAGs when they played in the Super Bowl last year
"I was just a boy with a dream," he summarizes the experience
Joey Diaz is no stranger to a hectic glam day.
The 30-year-old Kansas City-based makeup artist — who has worked with some of the most prominent wives and girlfriends of Kansas City Chiefs players and coaches — has been offering his services for five years after pivoting away from retail in 2020 to open his own freelance operation.
But there's nothing like Super Bowl Sunday, he tells PEOPLE.
It was January 2025, and just like the rest of his city, his eyes were glued to a local bar's TV screen as the Chiefs took on the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game — which would determine which team would advance to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
"I'm over here like, 'Please let the Chiefs win so we can go to the Super Bowl and glam,' " he remembers. "As soon as we won that game, I ran to the bathroom and booked my flight."
Of course, only two weeks out from the big game, there was not a single hotel room left in all of New Orleans for him to book. That didn't stop him.
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The day before the game, he boarded his flight from Kansas City, getting into New Orleans around 11 p.m., resolving to catch some Zs in the airport before the next day's rush. The following morning, he woke up with his back hurting — "I had to go to the chiropractor after," he jokes of his airport overnight — and got dressed in the airport's bathroom, before he made his way to the Chiefs hotel to meet the rest of the glam squad for an 8 a.m. call time.
The room, he remembers, was "tiny": about 700 square feet, packed with 10 makeup artists, 10 hair stylists, and an ever-revolving stream of WAGs in need of their glam. The space was stifling in the Louisiana heat, so fans were blowing for everyone inside.
"Think of New York Fashion Week meets a tailgate," he says. "The nerves are up. Everyone's getting dressed in their players' jerseys. And the chaos of makeup artists everywhere, photographers, barbers — you kind of just blink and then open your eyes and it's over because you're moving so fast."
And the task of glamming was no small feat: The makeup, he says, had to last through 24 hours of events and interviews and afterparties and, of course, the game itself — all in the thick New Orleans humidity. When a girl's makeup was finished, he'd hand them a small touch-up kit with a few travel-sized products and send them on their way before it was on to the next.
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Joey Diaz
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Several hours — and what was probably pounds of foundation — later, an exhausted Diaz had to get back to the New Orleans airport to catch his flight while the rest of the team was at the stadium. He caught the game in bits and pieces during his layovers (but he ultimately wasn't too sad to miss it after the Chiefs' heartbreaking loss to the Eagles).
Diaz touched back down in Kansas City around 11 p.m. that night.
He sums it up humbly: "I was just a boy with a dream."
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Published: October 31, 2025 at 12:10PM on Source: ALPHA MAG
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