MIRIANA SAVINO INTERVIEW: I love scouting new faces and most of the time they don’t have an idea of their potential.
Swanky Magazine Interviews the wonderfully talented MUA - Miriana Savino ( Italy)
MUA SPOTLIGHT | VOL.III | ISSUE.4
Q1. Swanky Mag: Hello Miriana, can you introduce yourself to Swanky Magazine's readers? Can you tell us a little about you?
Sure, my name is Miriana, I’m 27 and I’ve been working as a make-up artist for exactly 7 years, but I’ve recently started to study as a beautician too.
Q2. What made you want to be a Make-up artist?
I guess it was my passion for the music industry first, spending hours watching MTV as a child and working with my auntie as a hairdresser assistant after school. I was occasionally doing my friends’ make-up and I decided to give it a try.
HMUA & Creative Direction miriana.savino
Photographer. @claraxbarroso
HMUA assistant @emilywrightmakeup
Model @2.4.08
HMUA & Creative Direction miriana.savino
Model @2.4.08
Q3. Which area of makeup do you specialise in? Did you always want to work in that area?
I’m specialised in fashion-editorial, wedding and events hair and make-up, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do until I haven’t tried everything. In Milan I’ve trained in fashion make-up, In UK I learned prosthetics and wig making thinking about working in film, but nothing made me feel more fulfilled than transforming an apparently ordinary woman into a fashion model. I love scouting new faces and most of the time they don’t have an idea of their potential.
Q4. Please briefly describe your style for our readers.
I think that my style is a bit of everything. I love doing a really good no make-up look as seen in films, emotional, character-based, and durable, mixed with a very bright, satin-finished skin, healthy cheeks with good framing brows, hydrated lips, and a splash of colour with different textures as in body painting. A minestrone ( it mean mixed vegetable soup in Italian hahaha )
HMUA & Creative Direction: @miriana.savino
Photographer: Vittoria Caposicchio @vittoria.jpg
Model: @giorgia_pescuma
HMUA & Creative Direction: @miriana.savino
Photographer; Denis Suciu @shotby_den 3
Q5. Where do you get inspiration from?
When doing weddings and events I pay attention to their perfume, is it strong or delicate? For beauty editorials, I get inspiration from landscapes and I simply look up to other make-up artists. If I like something I steal it and make my own version, there’s nothing wrong with that and inspiring each other is more productive than competing.
Q6. What’s your favorite part of your job as a makeup artist?
Definitely not cleaning all the dirty brushes!! haha! I guess it is looking at the final pictures, of course.
Q7. Would you consider yourself a hobbyist or a paid professional?
I’m a paid professional.
Q8. What has been the most memorable moment of your career and why?
Simply the first time a beauty editorial with my own creative direction has been published, at that moment I’ve understood my worth and it kept me going.
Q9. What’s the hardest part of your job?
Well, doing the right make-up in 45 min on someone you’ve just met for the first time that doesn’t know what skincare is for, is not as easy as when I actually plan and design the editorial look I’ll create. It’s very hard to not underestimate yourself and not letting yourself down, I always think I could have done it better, but this is what keeps me wanting to learn new techniques.
Q10. What is one piece of advice you would like to offer a new upcoming Make-up Artist looking to start their own business and pursue a career as a Make-up Artist?
Self-confidence is everything in the beauty industry. You can always refine your techniques, but no one will believe in you if you don’t. Never look at what other people do but be self-aware, don’t be jealous, and always help each other.
HMUA & Creative Direction: @miriana.savino
Photographer. @gracehodgsonphoto
Model. @thechloedesouza
HMUA & Creative Direction: @miriana.savino
Model; @nihalidechka
Photographer: Lucy Davies @lucy__karina
Q11. Name a makeup product could you not live without?
Liquid Highlighter, god bless who invented it!
Q12. what’s your favorite makeup brand and why?
I don’t have one, I’ve always been into YSL for their lipsticks and complexion products, but I’ve recently tried Danessa Myricks and so far she makes the best waterproof creams I’ve ever used. So useful for weddings, I really recommend the color fix collection. Just wow!
Q13. What do you think of our new magazine?
I love the creativity and the professionalism. I think it will go far and it has the best editor in chief!
Follow Miriana’s Journey on instagram.com * @miriana_savino
HMUA & Creative Direction: @miriana.savino
Photographer @gracehodgsonphoto
Hair @laurenbellhair
Styling @jkrstyling
Model @dsanchirmaa