Karen Yiu

Karen Yiu is a Hong Kong-based professional makeup and styling designer and body-painting artist with more than 20 years of industry experience. She graduated in 2005 with First Class Honours from the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, in Specialist Makeup Design. Her practice spans fashion, media, stage and bridal makeup, with particular recognition in body painting. She served as makeup artist for America’s Next Top Model (Macau) and as Makeup Design Director for Cirque du Soleil’s Hangzhou production. In 2015, she founded the Hong Kong Makeup Artist Academy and, in the same year, was awarded First Place in Creative Make-up at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria.