A leading light in the Irish beauty industry, Lorraine O’Neill is known both for her skills as a make-up artist and for her remarkable success developing businesses such as LA Make-Up Academy and IFMA (Irish Federation Of Make-Up Artists). With an uncanny ability to identify ‘the next big thing’, Lorraine combines flair and creativity as a make-up artist with a keen business sense and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Lorraine has worked as a make-up artist in London, Paris and Sydney as well as her native Dublin and has travelled all over the world, to destinations as diverse as Africa and India. She cites foreign travel as a major creative influence, deriving inspiration from her experiences in other countries. Highly respected by clients, photographers, stylists and fellow make-up artists, Lorraine established an early reputation for catching trends while warm and transforming them red hot onto the faces of Ireland’s top models.

Her work has been featured in numerous titles including Image, Social & Personal, The RTE Guide, and she has appeared on TV programmes such as RTE 1’s Off the Rails.

Passionate about training and standards, Lorraine was aware that no facility existed in Ireland to provide top tier training to make-up artists. Lorraine then began training make-up artists, engaging the services of other leading artists to provide high quality tuition.

In 2005, Lorraine was keen to realise the full potential of her burgeoning training business and she then opened LA Make-Up Academy at a state-of-the-art studio in
Dublin’s Dame Street. The academy’s vision was to provide the highest standard of tuition and mentoring to a new generation of make-up artists in Ireland. To date, thousands of students have benefited from instruction from Ireland’s top make-up artists.

Always keen to move on to the next big project, now that the academy is established, Lorraine is turning her attentions elsewhere. She is currently focusing her attention on opening a new make-up training academy in Belfast and London. Not surprisingly, Lorraine’s experience means that she is also in demand as a consultant on other projects. Most recently, she has been invited to act as creative consultant for a world-class spa at a new luxury development, in the Middle East.