Silvia Gasperi Beauty & Care

Silvia Gasperi came to make-up from architecture: she graduated in architecture, then followed a long-held wish to work in beauty and finished a make-up school, Beauty Center of Milan, in 2015. Her bridal service stands out for how much it hands you in two steps: a trial of about two hours, and a wedding-day make-up for the bride and the mother of the bride in one package. The pages are in Italian, and no English wording turned up, so a couple planning from abroad should expect to correspond in Italian or ask first whether she works in English.

A two-hour trial in Lugano, two months out

The service has two steps. The first is the trial, which usually takes place about two months before the wedding and lasts around two hours, at her studio in Lugano. In it you decide on the look from your needs and tastes. The second is the wedding day itself, when the make-up can be done at your home or at her studio, using long-wearing, tear-proof products. For a bride who expects to cry at the vows, tear-proof is the right brief.

As of November 2026, the bridal price is given on request, a CHF 200 deposit is due on the trial day, and extra trials cost CHF 150 each. The package covers the bride and the mother of the bride, or another person of the bride's choice. For larger parties, other packages can be requested when many people need make-up on the same day. No street address is published; the studio is placed in Lugano.

A competition judge and trainer behind the brush

She holds a 2015 certificate of competence as a make-up artist for cinema, theater and television from Beauty Center of Milan. Since 2016 she has taught make-up on adult-education courses in the canton of Ticino, and she has worked as make-up artist and hairstylist on several film productions there. In October 2015 she was make-up artist for the Conservatorio di Milano's staging of I Promessi Sposi.

The awards are on the lash-and-brow side: first place at the Norwegian Online Lash Filler Championship in February 2019, second place in the Lash Lifting Expert category of the Lash&Brow The Americas Competition in February 2020, and later entries as a judge and speaker at events such as Lash Star Dubai and Lash Summit Australia. She is the first official teacher of the Light Lashes Academy in Switzerland. For a bride, the practical meaning is that the same person can offer lash lamination ("Lash Filler") and eyebrow shaping before the wedding; the studio's menu also includes the brow service called Brow Bomber.

Closer to the hair-and-make-up world, she took two third places in the Hair & Make-up Fantasy Beauty Contest at Expo Lugano, in January and October 2017. She was a senior editor at the ClioMakeUp beauty blog from 2016 to 2019, mainly reviewing products, and has volunteered since 2015 as a make-up teacher with Look Good Feel Better, which runs free workshops for women in cancer therapy.

Color analysis for the dress and the make-up

The Armocromia service is a color consultation to find the palette that suits a person's skin, eyes and hair, and it helps with the choice of clothes and accessories as well as make-up. She took a 2020 specialization course in color analysis at the Italian Image Institute in Milan. A bride still choosing her accessories could book it alongside the bridal make-up, though the two are not linked as a package. Knowing your palette before you commit to a dress, a veil and a lipstick is a useful extra to have next to bridal make-up.

A short pause in appointments

In November 2026 appointments with Silvia are suspended until 9 November inclusive, and for lash appointments another team member, Tamara, remains available. That reads as a temporary pause, not a closure, and it only matters if your trial falls in that week.

A deposit and a quote, where others publish fixed fees

Terms vary a lot among bridal make-up artists. Merita Spaija, as read in November 2026, prices bridal make-up at CHF 400 without a trial and a separate civil-ceremony make-up at CHF 200. Kristine B Makeup & Hair pairs bridal work with color analysis offered live or online from CHF 150 in November 2026. Silvia Gasperi puts the emphasis elsewhere: the structure of the trial, a stated deposit, and a price given only on request. If you want a make-up artist who is trained, who teaches, and whose trial is long enough to settle the look properly, Silvia Gasperi is the Lugano name we'd point you to.