the artist.Most brides come to me knowing exactly what they don't want
Over-done. Unrecognizable. Something that looks incredible at noon and quietly falls apart by dinner.
I work the other way around.
I start with who you are, how you move, how you photograph, what the light will be doing at your venue. Then I build from there, slowly and precisely, without ever imposing a look that isn’t yours.
how i got there
I was ten when my skin started breaking out. Badly. The kind of acne that makes you hyperaware of every mirror, every photograph, every passing glance.
That’s where my obsession with skin really began. Not trends, not looks, but skin itself, how it behaves, what it needs, what it’s capable of becoming. I spent years studying cosmetic ingredients, skin biology and formulation, and every failure became part of my foundation.
Alongside all of that came a psychology degree, a blog and an early Instagram, back before “influence” even had a name. Then beauty PR, where I learned to think in images and stories. Then Make Up For Ever Academy in Paris, where I trained as an artist.
That path was never scattered. It was precise.
What I believe about beauty
I don’t wear much makeup myself. No mascara most days. For me it has always been about the skin, luminous, refined and alive.
Long before it became a trend, I was drawn to skin-true finishes and lightweight foundations. I trained in mineral makeup with Jane Iredale, which gave me everything I need to work with sensitive, reactive and complex skin, including my own.
I work lashes the same way I work skin, lightly and on purpose. Lash by lash, placed individually and only where your own lashes ask for them, never a strip and never anything heavy on the lash line. It is the quiet detail that keeps your eyes looking like yours and reads as expensive on camera.
Makeup is at its most powerful when it stays subtle. When it supports the woman wearing it instead of speaking louder than she does. I’m not here to put a look on you. I'm not here to put a look on you. I'm here to make you look like yourself.
What that means for you
In three years I have done the makeup for close to one hundred brides, at châteaux across Provence including Château d'Estoublon, Château de Méouilles and Château de la Beaumetane, for women who came from more than ten countries. My work has been featured by French Wedding Style. None of that is the point on its own, but it is the reason I can do what comes next.
I can read a bride within the first ten minutes of a conversation. Not just her face, but her. How she carries herself, what she isn’t saying, what she actually means when she says “natural but still glam.”
I think in terms of the whole picture, the ceremony light, the photographer’s eye, the way you’ll feel at six in the evening when the dancing begins. The makeup is only the tool. The result is what matters.
My brides tend to describe me as calming. Precise. The person who knew what they needed before they did.
