Makeup that holds
from first light to last dance.
Bridal, editorial and commercial makeup, brought to you across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. Skin that still looks like skin, a finish built to last the day, and a face that reads beautifully on camera and across the room.
Beauty, brought to light
I’m Valeria. I’m a makeup artist working in Cambridge and across Cambridgeshire, and I work where the day takes me — a bride’s suite at dawn, a studio under hot lights, a dressing room before the cameras roll. Editorial, fashion, commercial and private clients; the brief changes, the standard doesn’t.
I come to you with a full professional kit and work to your features, your colouring and the light you’ll be in. I want makeup that survives a long day and a close-up lens — and that, in the photographs, simply looks like you on a very good morning.
More about meMakeup services in Cambridge
Four ways I work — each built around your day and made to last it, under the lens and across the room.
Bridal & Wedding
We settle your look at a trial, so nothing about the morning is a surprise. On the day I come to you, work calmly through the hours before, and leave you with skin that lasts the ceremony, the photographs and the dancing.
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Special Occasions
For galas, parties and the evenings that matter — a face that holds its own under chandeliers and flash alike, reads the room, meets the dress, and still looks like you at midnight.
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Music Videos & Commercials
On set I work fast and to brief — clean beauty that survives hot lights and continuity, or a stronger concept when the director wants one. Calm on the day, reliable between takes.
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Makeup Lessons
One-to-one, at your pace, on your own face — the few techniques and colours that genuinely suit you, and an honest verdict on what’s in your bag. You leave able to do it yourself.
ExploreAlso available for editorial & fashion shoots. Or learn to do your own — at the Natural & Organic Makeup Masterclass. See all services →
How we’ll work together
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Enquiry & consultation
We start with a relaxed conversation — your date, your venue, the mood you’re after — so everything that follows is built around you.
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The trial
At your trial we perfect the look together, unhurried, until it feels unmistakably you and ready for the camera.
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The day
On the morning I come to you — your home, hotel suite or venue — and create the look calmly and on schedule, so you can simply enjoy getting ready.
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Touch-ups & longevity
Long-wearing formulas, and a touch-up kit where it’s booked, keep you looking like yourself from the first photograph to the last dance.
Qualified, insured, and properly invested in your day
The credentials below are the easy part to promise. What you’re really booking is someone who takes your day as seriously as you do — who turns up early, works calmly, and treats your photographs as if they were her own.
- Trained & qualified
- Fully insured — public liability
- Private, discreet, on-location service
- A trial before every wedding
- A professional kit, brought to you
- By appointment, across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
Discreet and professional — comfortable with private clients, public figures and closed sets, and happy to sign an NDA where a production needs one.
“ The best compliment I get is that you can’t see my work — only the person wearing it.
From the journal
Notes from the chair — Cambridge weddings and graduations, the long nights of a May Ball, and the discoveries made here that quietly sit in every makeup bag.
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The latest looks, and what set actually looks like.
Across Cambridge & Cambridgeshire
I come to you — your home, a college room, a hotel suite or the venue itself — anywhere in Cambridge, and easily to the towns and villages around it:
- Ely
- Newmarket
- Saffron Walden
- Royston
- St Neots
- Huntingdon
- Bury St Edmunds
Somewhere else in Cambridgeshire or beyond? Just ask — travel is easily arranged.
Tell me about the day
Send me the date, the place, and a sense of what you’re picturing. I read every enquiry myself, and the reply you get will be mine.
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