AYA OGASAWARA

As a professional make-up artist, Aya Ogasawara has established and enjoyed an active and successful career in the most forefront fashion and beauty scenes, including Tokyo, London and New York, for over 10 years. Aya’s expertise lies in her ability to work with different face shape and skin tone, and to bring out and accentuate people’s inner beauty by enhancing their natural features.

Professionally, she always stays knowledgeable of the most current beauty trends, and skilled in the latest techniques in make-up, airbrushing, hair-styling, fashion-styling, eyelash extension, esthetic treatment, etc., with a simple goal of providing her clients a wide range of professional and/or personalized beauty related services for their different projects or occasions.

Aya has regularly worked with high-profile clients in the fashion and the entertainment industries, including fashion magazines Vogue, Elle, Dazed and Confused, on photo shoots and many other exciting projects such as music video filming of Boy George and Mark Ronson; advertising campaigns for Victoria’s Secret and Burberry; fashion shows for Giorgio Armani and Michael Kors.

In addition, Aya has also provided her professional make-up services to individuals, including celebrities, for private events such as weddings. She is highly commended by her clients as an artistically inclined, highly resourceful, flexible, attentive, and creative professional with an intuitive and keen understanding of her clients’ particular needs.

Aya also actively organizes beauty seminars for professionals and general public who are interested, gives speeches and lectures, publishes articles on various beauty related topics, and occasionally shares her insights through interviews.

Aya graduated from London School of Beauty and Make-Up, where she obtained the internationally recognized I.M.A.(International Make Up Association) qualification. In addition, she acquired an Airbrush Make-Up Certificate at London Film Academy.