We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Flor Elizabeth Lugo a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Flor Elizabeth thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. To kick things off, we’d love to hear about things you or your brand do that diverge from the industry standard.

Time, knowing the client and fast creativity. One of the things that makes me different from the rest in my industry, is how I manage the time, being puntual, fast and proficient with my time and the time of others, a skill that my clients appoint.

Have the ability of read the style, shape of the face and the occasion of my costumers makes my work more easy and enjoyable, also understand their needs as individuals makes them feel special, usually in my industry, colleagues think that one style fits all, and that is something that I strongly disagree, and I noticed that creates a huge difference in how you leave your client comfortable and happy. same happens with my creativity toward their projects at the moment of a photo or as a producer.

Flor Elizabeth, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I just to work as an accountant, but creativity and arts were always present.. in early stages of my life I had an interest in arts drawings and colors, with makeup I had an encounter in a small library, where I found a book about it, and I just felt in love with it. I started to learn and to practice on my friends and family. then my second love is the photography, a field were im growing, and feeling more confortable every time, my back ground in the understanding of arts makes easy to me manage the lights and color.

All that combined makes me unique in my industry, someone that can produce, create, do your makeup, hair, and take the perfect image that their are looking for.

Lately I’ve been working in a project that im thrill to show to my clients, is going to be a tool with one they will be able to do makeup themselves, also, I have a series of works of arts, that consist in make very realistic art on people with body paint and then photograph them.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

One of my goals is to make people to feel that wow effect that left them without breath, create art that can reestablish the sense of beauty and esthetics. Also create a product that can improve how we work and to facilitate the post service to my clients and colleagues.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I remember one time, that I was just beginning my makeup artist path, and I needed some materials, and when I bought them in a Sephora in la Collins ave, I remember that my parking expired, and I was without a cent to add more time, but I told to my self, you rent is paid, your car is full of gas, now you have all that you need to work and you just need to start. that made me calm and more aware and confident of my abilities, I was scared but I was proud of my self, because I was following my dreams, and now here I am.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.elizabethmua.com
• Instagram: @elizabethmua

Image Credits
Profile photo Katherine Wool other photos by Flor ELIZABETH LUGO