I didn’t start with a clear plan to become a makeup artist. Growing up in Naples, I was always drawn to art, color, and transformation, but I initially thought I might go into something like art conservation or psychology.
Everything shifted when I spent time in London in my early twenties. That’s where I realised makeup could actually be a career. I took a short course, and then very quickly understood that the real learning would come from being on set. I started from the very beginning — assisting, trying to get experience, and reaching out constantly for opportunities. I eventually began assisting established artists eventually landing a first assistant role with Charlotte Tilbury, which was an incredibly formative experience where I didn’t just learn the craft but a new world of creativity intuition and professionalism opened up to me. A priceless opportunity.
After a few years assisting, I went freelance and started building my own path through editorial work, fashion shows, and collaborations. It all grew quite organically from there.

I am always curious and I’m constantly inspired by the world around me. It could be a conversation with a friend, an old movie, a line in a book, someone’s look I notice in the street, the colours in a painting, or any texture I come across, or the light that hits it.
Nature too is a constant inspiration. Its complexity, its rawness, its ability to surprise.

My eye is now trained to notice, react and quickly transform anything into a make up product or a story. Every product is in a way, a memory transformed into expression.
I remember being at the Avedon exhibition and reading a sentence that struck me deeply: “Nothing is more difficult than simplicity.” That stayed with me. It became the seed of an entire collection.
Colours are almost like words to me by now. I can somehow mix a visual inspiration with the emotions that it provokes and create a story that becomes.

Beauty to me is about presence. It’s about how you feel, not just how you look.
Beauty is about personality, how a person carries themselves and their own singularity.
It’s not about conforming to a perfect beauty, whatever that means.
Makeup can shift your mood, anchor you. It’s intimate. That emotional power, how it can reconnect you to identity or feeling, is what draws me to it again and again.
Personally, the moment I add colour to my face, even when I’m at home, I feel a shift in my mood. I smile a little more. It announces something positive for me. It brings alertness, a smile, freshness, and readiness.
I really see putting make up on as a form of meditation. I really enjoy those 10 min in the morning dedicated to me.

The two constantly feed each other. My intuition tells me where I want to go emotionally, what kind of world I’m trying to create. But the technique is what turns that vision into something real. My experience allows me to have a structure to follow so that I can allow some freedom in my creativity.

I love when colours flow together effortlessly, when they feel like they naturally belong.
That’s where precision enters: in shaping how they meet, blend, and resonate.
There’s a connection between instinct and craft, an improvisation held within structure.

There is definitely a certain balance between classicism and the subversive I strive for. This is true in all aspects of my work, the textures, the shapes, the research behind my collections, the aesthetic of the beauty images I co-produce.
There is definitely something to do with the mixture between the past and what I feel in the present moment. I guess this also comes from one’s origins. It is maybe something you try to escape at the beginning in order to embrace the new and then you finally accept it as fundamental to you.