Asian makeup artist in Melbourne
Bridal, events, editorial and photoshoots. A good part of my work is with Asian clients, and the look is always built for the face in front of me rather than copied from a template.
I do not work from a formula. I look at your features, your colouring and what you are dressing for, and I put colour and definition where they actually read on you, not where a tutorial says they should go. That is true for every client, and it matters most around the eye. A monolid or a hooded lid will not hold a crease drawn where a tutorial puts it, so the eye is built for how it reads open rather than shut.
The thing I hear most often from Asian clients is that makeup does not last: it moves, transfers onto the lid and is gone by the evening. Long wear is what I am known for. I build for the full day, so the look you leave with is the look in the photographs at the end of the night.
Asian bridal makeup in Melbourne
A large part of this is wedding work. Asian wedding days tend to run long, often from an early start through to a late reception, sometimes with a change of outfit in between, and that is exactly where wear matters most. Trials are available beforehand so nothing on the day is a surprise.
If you want hair and makeup together, both are covered in the same booking, so there is no second supplier for you to organise and no second arrival time to agree on.
South Asian weddings run on their own timetable, with henna nights, multiple ceremonies and deeper skin tones to match, and that work has a page of its own: Indian and Sri Lankan makeup in Melbourne.
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Studio in Middle Park, or I come to you
The studio is in Middle Park, close to Albert Park, South Melbourne, Port Melbourne and St Kilda. For weddings and events I travel across Melbourne and beyond, including the Mornington Peninsula, the Yarra Valley and Geelong.
Prices for every service are on the pricing page, including what is included and how travel is worked out. You can book online, or send me a message if you would rather ask first.
Good to know
Yes, and it is fixed before any colour goes on. A lid that transfers is usually a lid that was not prepared for its own oil, or one where the crease was drawn where the tutorial says it goes rather than where it actually sits when the eye is open. I prep the lid separately from the rest of the face, build the eye for the shape you have open rather than closed, whether that is a monolid or a hooded lid, and choose products by how they behave after six hours, not by how they look in the first five minutes.
That is what it is built for. A camera reads texture and colour far more literally than a room does, so a heavy powder, a shade half a tone off, or a hard line that looks soft in the mirror all show up magnified in the frame. Flash is the harshest test of the lot. The skin is prepared so it holds light instead of bouncing it back, which is why the look you leave with is the look in the photographs at the end of the night.
A single makeup session runs from about 40 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on how much the look asks for, and hair alongside it adds to that. For a group, tell me the hour you need everyone finished and how many people are being done, and I work the start time backwards from there. Dressing and driving sit outside that hour, so add them yourself when you pick it. On larger groups I bring an assistant so the first person is not finished long before the last, and that does not change what you pay: the price is for the work, not for how many pairs of hands are on it. Makeup for a guest starts at $170 and hair is priced separately, the full list is on the pricing page.
Either. The studio is in Middle Park, close to Albert Park, South Melbourne, Port Melbourne and St Kilda, and studio prices are the lower ones. If you would rather get ready where you already are, travel is $1 for every kilometre driven, which works out at $2 for every kilometre between us, so a booking 50km out is $100. It is confirmed before you book. More on mobile bookings.
Yes. Interstate weddings, weddings abroad and shoots away from the city are booked the same way as anything else, they just carry more planning around them. I fly, and where the schedule needs me on the ground ahead of the day, I come early and we split the preparation across two days instead of compressing it into one morning. Flights, dates and the running order are all settled with you in advance rather than left to the morning itself.
No. A large part of it is wedding work, but the same booking covers an engagement, a birthday, a formal, a graduation, a work event, a portrait session or a shoot. What changes is how far the look is pushed, not how it is built. Editorial and photoshoot work is quoted per project rather than per session, because no two shoots need the same thing.
For an event, usually not. For a wedding, yes, and it is booked separately from the day at $230. The point of it is not the photograph at the end, it is finding out how a product behaves on your skin over several hours, and settling anything you are unsure about while there is no clock running. Full prices for every service are on the pricing page.
Prices
Online booking is for the studio in Middle Park. For a mobile booking, send an enquiry instead: travel time is planned by hand, and the start time and travel fee are confirmed first.
Hair by length, from soft waves to a formal updo, is set out on the hair page. Brows and lashes, gift certificates and how travel is worked out are on the full price list.
Book a wedding, an event or a shoot
Tell me the date, how many people are being done and where you are getting ready, and I will come back with a start time before anything is confirmed. Trials are booked the same way.