The atelier · since 2018
Bridal beauty, considered like couture.
A small Mumbai studio for modern Indian brides — by appointment, never more than three brides a week.
Award · August 2025
Best Wedding Makeup Artist · India.
Recognised at HT City Showstoppers · 2025. A long quiet year of brides, suddenly named.
Pink lips · powdered dreams
A kit curated like a couture wardrobe.
Pat McGrath, Charlotte Tilbury, Tom Ford, Westman Atelier. Every piece chosen for skin first.
The lookbook
Three brides, in their own light.
Each chapter walks through the look, the room, the routine, and the products used.
A note · August 2025
Best Wedding Makeup Artist · India.
Recognised at HT City Showstoppers · 2025 — the studio's first major industry award. Quiet years of brides, suddenly named. Thank you to every bride who let us tell her morning.
"Forever love — oh the unending vanity of pink lips & powdered dreams." — Shradha, in her own words
An atelier · by appointment
A wedding-morning practice.
Led by Shradha Luthra from a small Mumbai studio — editorial-trained, bridal-practiced, kit curated for the long evening ahead. Featured by HT City Showstoppers as India's Best Wedding Makeup Artist, 2025.
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Bridal
the long view
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Editorial
for the lens
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Mentorship
the masterclass
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Award · 2025
Best Wedding Makeup Artist India
“I look at every bride the way a tailor looks at fabric — for what holds light, what falls quietly, and what wants to be seen.”
Shradha Luthra · founder
The atelier
A small studio, a long view.
Shradha Luthra leads a small bridal atelier in Mumbai — by appointment, never more than three brides a week. The studio is built on the idea that wedding makeup should be considered the way couture is: for the wearer, for the light, for the long evening ahead.
She works across India and abroad for select destination weddings, with editorial commissions running alongside the bridal book. Trained in classical and contemporary technique; certified, published, quiet about it.
- Brides since 2018
- 140+
- Editorial commissions
- 22 covers
- Studio
- Mumbai · on commission
Signature kit
Curated like a couture wardrobe.
A small, considered kit chosen for skin first. Every piece earns its place by what it does on the day — not what it sells on the shelf.
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02 Suqqu lashes -
03 Sigma & Wayne Goss kits -
04 Mehron HD setting -
05 Skin-prep by Augustinus Bader
The services
Our popular packages.
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Bridal day — the wedding morning
Full bridal makeup and hair on the wedding day, with a trial preceding. Includes one touch-up artist on site.
- Pre-trial in-studio
- On-site team
- Touch-up kit through the night
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Wedding week — every ceremony, considered
Mehendi, sangeet, haldi, wedding, reception. A coordinated week-long look story rather than five disconnected mornings.
- Pre-week consult
- Coordinated styling notes
- Bride + 2 in the package
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Editorial & press — for the lens
Editorial bridal shoots, press features, magazine commissions. Available for select projects each season.
- Cover & spread work
- Brand campaigns
- Designer lookbooks
Said about us
In our brides' own words.
I wanted to feel like myself — just lit a little better. Shradha understood that on the first call. Four ceremonies, one continuous look, never once retouched a photograph after.
Showed up with a Vogue Italia tear-sheet expecting a pushback. Got an even better idea instead. The eye held from cocktails through the last song.
Travelled to Italy with us and built a look for lake light that didn't fight the water. My mother cried before the ceremony — she said I looked like her photographs.
Three artists came to the trial. One of them was Shradha. The other two were absolutely not. She's quietly the best in the country at restrained bridal.
I'm a journalist. I notice when someone is good at their job. Shradha is the only artist I've seen who actually plans for the second outfit change.
Destination, sunshine, salt air, a long ceremony. The makeup did not move. We don't say that lightly.
The blog
Notes from the studio.
Skincare, bridal prep, the kit, and the occasional opinion — written long-form, the way magazines used to.
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the prep · 6 min
skin in the weeks before
Eight weeks out is where the wedding-morning skin is actually made. A short, considered routine that quietly does the work.
April · 2026
Read the post 02
in conversation · 8 min
on the modern Indian bride
On lehengas worn at brunches, on grandmothers' jewelry restyled, on the slow softening of every old rule — a note on who the studio meets each season.
March · 2026
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the kit · 5 min
five pieces that stay in every bag
Not the hero products — the quiet ones. The five things in the kit that go to every wedding, every editorial, every press shoot. And why.
February · 2026
Read the postAvailability
The studio takes three brides a week.
Wedding mornings are protected. We block a quiet day on either side of every bridal so the studio arrives — and leaves — on time. Hold a date below; we confirm by email within 24 hours.
- Open · we can take a bride this day
- Waitlist · already enquired, ask for hold
- Taken · already with another bride
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Hold a dateBy appointment
The studio is taking new brides for —
Winter 2026open · Spring 2027waitlist · Winter 2027enquire
Consultations run thirty minutes and are complimentary. Bring a mood, a wedding date, and any references that feel like you — we'll talk through the year ahead.