12 Best Tampa Makeup Artists

Breonna Queen Beauty, based in Tampa, offers a range of services including bridal makeup, high-quality photography, prom, and fitness competition makeup, airbrush foundation, and tattoo cover-up. The makeup artist enhances each client’s unique natural beauty and recommends simple, yet beautiful makeup looks. She also offers video tutorials online but does not offer hairstyling.

Destiny and Light Hair & Makeup Group is a team of licensed professionals in Tampa experienced in all hair types and skin complexions. The artists cut, color, and straighten hair, and apply various makeup techniques for weddings, boudoir sessions, and fantasy photo shoots. Hair and makeup packages in studio range from $120 to $140, depending on whether the foundation is traditional or airbrush. Clients have the option of booking hairstyling and makeup application on location combined with a glam photoshoot for $350 per person.

Elena Joseph is a professional makeup artist and licensed hair stylist with over 15 years of experience in Tampa and the surrounding area. She has won her first hair competition with an updo entry while in Cosmetology School and since then has serviced over 400 brides. The artist is a Pivot Point Academy graduate with top honors and a Goldwell certified colorist. As a 2nd generation cosmetologist, she has passed the hair styling legacy to her daughter who became the 3rd generation of hair stylists in the family.

Femme Akoi Beauty Studio is a full-service hair salon and special events beauty team in Dunedin that is available on location or in the studio. The team provides makeup services in the Tampa Bay area for engagements, weddings, maternity, portraits, photo shoots, editorial, and special effects. A makeup session price is $75, and a bridal package including airbrush makeup, lashes, and hair costs $165. The artists offer hair and makeup classes individually or in a group setting.

Hair and Makeup by Nereida is owned by a licensed esthetician in Valrico whose skills include airbrush makeup for weddings, television, high fashion, stage and runway shows, and photo shoots. The founder’s motto is, “I am not done until you love what I have done,” and she is the official makeup artist to the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneer Cheerleaders. She received her training at the Artistic Nails and Beauty Academy in Tampa and James Ryder Makeup Labs.

Irina Bilka Hair and Makeup is a Tampa-based professional hair artist who specializes in high fashion and wedding hair and makeup. The artist has been certified by the Beauty Academy in Saint Petersburg where she received an award for being most creative. Her work has appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, FACEON, Orlando Wedding, Modern Salon, Behind the Chair on Paper, and more. Her specialty and passion are working on editorial shoots, runway shows, television, and creating tutorial DVDs. Irina owns a bridal company that provides hair and makeup services on location all around Florida.

Jackie Riley Makeup is the practice of a professional makeup artist in Tampa who has experience in the cosmetics industry. She started her company to utilize her artistic skills and knowledge of makeup products to create individualized beauty experiences for her clients. The services offered include consultation, trial, facial preparation, and makeup application for brides and wedding parties, special occasions, and pageants, as well as mobile tanning and tanning parties.

Jess Waldrop Makeup Artist is owned by a professional makeup artist and stylist with over 20 years of experience in Brandon and its surroundings. The studio specializes in creating makeup and hair for boudoir, maternity, fashion photography, print, and headshots, but the company is no longer booking bridal clients. The makeup artist’s style preference is for a vintage, classic, and clean look, and her work has been featured in publications around the world.

Lili’s Weddings is a professional team that provides on-location beauty services for hair and makeup in Tampa and the surrounding areas. The founder has over 20 years of experience as a professional hair stylist and has worked for Walt Disney World Weddings, Disney Channel, Travel Channel, American Idol, Universal Studios, and more. A bride who used the hair and makeup services shared, “I never knew I could look so glamorous!”

Lindsay Does Makeup is an artistry team in Tampa that specializes in photography, fashion, wedding, special occasion, production, stage, and editorial makeup. The team has worked with every ethnicity and can provide the appropriate foundation for people of every color, but the company does not provide hair services. Makeup in the studio costs $60, and at a location of the client's choice within 30 miles the price is $80. Customers can take a makeup class for $125, and combine it with a concierge makeup shopping session for $60.

Style Hair and Makeup is an on-location professional hair and makeup company that provides beauty services in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. The team of certified and licensed experts specializes in hairstyles and makeup for weddings, photo shoots, and special events. The bridal package including hair and makeup costs $180, and a travel fee of $50 per artist may be added, if services booked include less than four artists and the distance of the location is above 40 miles.

Tiara Styles Beauty is a mobile hair and makeup service company in Tampa whose owner has graduated from Manhattan Hair Academy and has experience working with artists, photographers, and models. The team's artists welcome clients of all ages, ethnicities, skin types, and style preferences and they specialize in airbrush makeup, lashes extensions, and a variety of hair extensions. Besides the traditional wedding packages, clients can choose a South Indian Bridal Party style package including makeup, brow shaping, face contouring, natural strip lashes, and henna application.