About Marusha
I’m Marusha.
Marusha Val is a makeup artist, hair stylist, and educator with over 15 years of experience, specializing in enhancing natural beauty through timeless technique. Since 2010, she’s built her career across bridal styling, editorial work, and mentoring — transforming how her clients see themselves and building a community of students who become stronger professionals and better artists than she is.
Her ability to see color the way few artists do, combined with her warm, intuitive approach, makes her one of the most sought-after makeup artists in her region. But what really sets her apart? She’s made it her mission to master mature skin, deep skin tones, and corrective makeup — because women with asymmetries, scars, or broken self-image deserve specialists. Women who’ve lost confidence need makeup as healing, not decoration.
She doesn’t believe in trends. She believes in you.
“The right foundation is everything.”
“Color is language.”
“Timeless beats trendy.”
How It All Started
I’m Marusha. Ciao!
I grew up drawing fashion sketches and dreaming in colors. Numbers bored me. Shapes, textures, possibilities — those fascinated me. By primary school, I was already exhibiting my fashion sketches. After finishing high school, I was accepted to study fashion design and textiles.
But life had other plans. I was too young, too inexperienced to know what I actually wanted. So I stepped away from formal study and took a different path — one that would lead me exactly where I needed to be.
The moment I realized I could apply makeup to someone else’s face and completely shift how they felt? I was done for. This was it. My fashion background didn’t disappear — it transformed. Instead of sketching silhouettes on paper, I started sculpting faces. Understanding proportion, balance, light, shadow, color harmony. Everything I loved about fashion found a new home in makeup.
Here’s what I learned early on (and what nobody tells you): Most makeup artists don’t actually know how to do foundation properly.
They get it fundamentally wrong — basematches that are too light, too orange, too yellow. No real understanding of color theory. They jump straight to drama — contour, highlight, shadow. But foundation is where the magic lives. Get that right, and everything else is just finishing touches.
I trained formally at MUD (Makeup Designory), but the real education came from thousands of faces. From noticing that a woman’s skin changes at 35, 45, 55 — and that Instagram tutorials don’t mention this once. From realizing that women of color were getting terrible advice from “beauty experts” who’d never actually worked with deep skin tones. From understanding that makeup culture has a serious problem: it’s selling, not serving.
In 2017, I opened my own studio in Koper. Makeup. Hair. School. Everything under one roof. And then I realized: I wanted to teach every single day. So in 2022, I closed it all and moved to Berlin and work as a teacher at MUD Studio Berlin for 4 years. This is where I come alive.
But I am ready for a new chapter - to show others how to do the same. Everything I’ve learned, condensed into a vision that’s entirely mine.
Who I love to work with
Women 30+
Deep, rich skin tones
Brides
Public figures
Corrective makeup
Creative visionaries
Let’s Work Together
Get in Touch
I’m based between Berlin, Slovenia, Northern Italy, and Gran Canaria. I travel for the right projects, the right clients, the right collaborations. Ready to talk? Let’s connect.