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Close portrait of Ornella in her black apron-dress

about

Hello, I'm Ornella

I have been doing makeup for brides for more than twenty years, nearly all of it in Puglia, in old whitewashed houses with tall windows and not much room. I like a quiet morning, a good chair by the light and nobody rushing.

My work is soft and luminous: skin that looks like skin, a natural rose on the lip, a face the bride knows when she looks in the mirror. We talk first, then I begin.

the studio letter

A letter now and then

A short letter each season with new looks, a few notes from the chair and the dates I have open.

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“The one email I open the day it lands.”

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