Lucia Pica is an Italian makeup artist known for her use of bold, bright colors and for creating looks that push the boundaries of what we can call makeup. She moved from her home country of Italy to London at the age of 22. At the suggestion of a publicist friend, she enrolled in a course at the Greasepaint School of Makeup. She was supposed to stay in the city for only three months — but she fell in love with makeup artistry and decided to stay. “As it often happens, life takes you in a completely different direction,” she says. “It’s the same with my makeup.”

During the course, she participated in test shoots and worked on extras in the James Bond movie Die Another Day . A few years later, she began assisting Charlotte Tilbury. After spending several years on the team, she went freel

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