Tilua Augello

A Milan-trained artist who started from fashion and film sets

Tilua Miriana Augello works from Vezia (Lugano). She is a make-up artist, hairstylist and image consultant with a diploma from the MBA Making Beauty Academy in Milan. She was born and lives in Ticino, with Italian and Swiss roots, and is willing to travel elsewhere in Switzerland and into Italy, especially Lombardy. After a recognized make-up academy she took a further year at the same Milan school, finishing with master certificates in image consulting, hairstyle, bridal make-up, photographic make-up and fashion make-up.

That training led to the Gucci and Versace shows during Milan Fashion Week, and the Locarno Film Festival. Today she works mostly with private clients, brides, ceremonies, photo shoots, VIP clients and editorial jobs such as Vanity Fair and !HOLA!, and collaborations with GUESS and the Swiss broadcaster RSI. We admire a résumé that runs from Milan Fashion Week shows to private brides, and her range, Ticino plus the rest of Switzerland and Lombardy, suits a wedding on either side of the border.

Four bridal options, built around the trial

The bridal offer has four choices. The first is complete bridal make-up on the wedding day without a trial. The second adds one full make-up trial with a consultation. The third covers make-up and hairstyle on the day. The fourth adds a full make-up trial and a full hairstyle trial, each with a consultation. The make-up is designed around your personality and needs through at least one pre-wedding trial, for a photographic, long-lasting and waterproof result, which matters when the camera follows you from the ceremony to the dinner table. Custom packages are possible, including packages for bridesmaids and family, and single or extra trials.

A hairstyle can be booked alone or added to a make-up service. Prices are not published; the contact details are a phone number and an email address.

One bride's testimonial, from Monica Allavena, describes Tilua also preparing two of her guests, a man's face care and hair, and giving advice on preparing the skin for the day. It is a client comment, so it shows what she is willing to do rather than serving as a rating.

Self-make-up lessons and image consulting for the wedding calendar

Two other services fit a wedding calendar. The first is the self-makeup course, taught one to one: a standard version covering products, skin care, face shape and corrections, and day or evening make-up, and a complete version that adds a general theory of skin discolorations and both looks. Students leave with a written summary, so you can repeat the look at the rehearsal dinner or the honeymoon.

The second is image consulting. It includes color analysis to find the hair colors, make-up and clothes that suit you, plus a study of face and body shape that covers haircuts, glasses frames, jewelry, necklines and bags. A consultation for men is also offered, so the groom can have one of his own. Gift vouchers for any combination of services are sold through a downloadable offer on the home page.

Clean tools, certified products

Hygiene is spelled out in detail. Each product is taken out with a sterile spatula so it never touches the client straight from its container, as with lipstick, and brushes and tools are sanitized and disinfected with Golmar products before every use. Only certified products are used, chosen to last through the day without touch-ups. Photographic and video make-up use HD products, and she stays until the shoot finishes, which is useful if your ceremony is being filmed.

Credits on record

Two outside records name her. In March 2022 Vanity Fair Italia published an interview with Allegra Gucci about her book, and the photo credit reads "Make-up e hair Tilua Augello", with photography by Davide Esposito and styling by Valentina Di Pinto. The film company Ventura Film also lists her in the make-up credit of "L'operaio", a Swiss film from 2026 directed by Tommaso Donati and co-produced by RSI. Both entries are credits, not reviews, but they bear out her editorial and film work.

Alongside another Milan graduate

Lucia Tacchelli, another make-up artist, also took the year-long make-up and hairstyling course at the MBA Academy in Milan. The shared school means similar technical groundwork; Tilua adds the image-consulting master on top of it.

Italian pages with an English switch

The pages are in Italian, and the menu has an IT and EN switch. She studied for knowledge of four languages, Italian, English, French and German, but which ones she uses with clients is not stated, so ask if you need English on the day. Her pages give you what you need for a precise enquiry: which of the four options you want, whether you need a hairstyle trial, and who else in the party needs styling. For a wedding in Ticino or across the border in Lombardy where the photographs matter, she has our recommendation.