Kirstin Piggott is a London based makeup artist.
Before her career started, the first makeup artist she assisted was Jackie Hamilton Smith and then she went on to assist influential makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury.
Kirstin’s first makeup job was when she was still in college (finishing her training at London College of Fashion). Her friend asked her if she wanted to come along with him for a shoot and she was only asked to do the makeup for free. It was for photographer Rankin (one of the founding editors of Dazed and Confused UK) and that was the first time she had anything published.
Kirstin thinks that it is a good thing to assist established makeup artists, not necessarily for the creativity, but because you also learn a lot about how you as an individual should act on the set with all the clients or models: you learn your own etiquette.
Among her most memorable moments she recalls working with Joss Stone and assisting Charlotte Tilbury on an Alexander McQueen Show. Two very hard but also very different things.
She is the Global Makeup Artist for Rimmel London.
She is represented by the Julian Watson Agency and you can find her portfolio HERE
