I’m Cati
The heart and hands behind Cati Beauty.
I specialise in fresh, modern & effortless beauty and have the pleasure of working on 60+ destination weddings every year.
My team and I are commited to create a memorable experience for our brides and bridal parties, so they can have the best start to the most magical day.
To me, nothing compares to making someone feel like the best version of themselves, and beauty plays a big role in it. I still feel amazed at how empowering makeup & hairstyling can be to a woman and how it can bring us the confidence we need to tackle the world.
The beginning
I was born in Lisbon and raised in Sintra in between the city and the country. I love dogs, sunlight, nature and music. I’m a pisces, which explains why I’ve always been a creative daydreamer and why I pour my heart into everything I do. I’m a sensitive “artist”, but I’m also very driven and belive in being ethical and honest in what I do.
I’ve never been pressured by my parents on what I should be when I grew up and when I started studying arts they didn’t even blink or suggested another option. Today I’m grateful for this, as it has given me the time and freedom to discover not only what I was good at, but what I was passionate about. Today I run my business with that same passion.
At 18 I moved to the UK where I studied Architecture and made unforgettable memories. A lot of what I am today comes from that time. The friends I made, the experiences I had, the travels, my work ethic, learning about form, shape, light and shadow; all of this still influences my life and my work daily.
Back in Lisbon, after briefly working as an interior designer, I did a postgraduate degree in personal styling and fashion, and that was the very first time I saw makeup as a possible career. So right after this, I enroled on a makeup course with Make Up For Ever in Lisbon, where I studied everything from beauty to fashion and even special effects, and that’s when my career begun.
Makeup & Hair Artist
I went on to do more education in makeup with senior artists and started working right away. Throughout this journey I also discovered hairstyling and was able to train and master this skill throughout the years.
Over the past years I’ve worked as a makeup and hair artist on various sets: editorials, a short film, commercial photography and video, campaigns for brands, corporate events, brides, bridal parties and private clients.
I like the technical and aesthetic side of makeup artistry and hairstyling, but I love to get to know my clients, models and talent; their personality, their story; to discover a look that will make them feel incredibly confident. It gives me so much joy that my clients trust me and my work, that I can make someone look and feel amazing, or to create some meaningful images together with a team of fellow creatives.
Destination Wedding & Bridal Beauty Specialist
My 9+ year experience in beauty and weddings has given me an opportunity to not only develop my expertise in this area, but also to create relashionships with teams of wedding planners, venues, photographers, videographers, to travel to gorgeous venues all over my home country, and most importantly, to meet so many incredible women and cultures from all over the world.
Because the most important part of my job as a makeup and hair artist is human connection and the confidence and trust my clients have in me, I’m proud to say I believe I live up to their expectations.
I’ve had the pleasure of working in so many different types of weddings throughout my career, from intimate elopements to stylish boutique weddings and even lavish luxury events. What all of them have in common is that my team and I are committed to create a memorable experience for our brides and bridal parties, trying to accommodate everyone’s wishes on such a special day.
My work with a bride and bridal party is divided equally between the actual beauty preparations and the management that takes place from the very first contact months (and sometimes more than a year) before the wedding. This work - management of dates, teams, timetables, logistics and requests - is something I consider vital, as it makes the wedding day services run smoothly and gives the bride and bridal party the best stress free beauty prep moment they’ve ever had.
I love that I can play a part in what can be one of the most special days in someone’s entire life. In seeing so many families and friends celebrating together, toasting, crying, laughing. When I started working with brides, I didn’t know I was going to love it so much and feel so incredibly inspired by the women I help get ready every day.
