Glamouria - Who’s Who: Gato Ruben Zamora By Hayat Ammouri

Name: Gato Ruben Zamora

Job & Title: Freelance Global Makeup Artist focused on the fashion and beauty business. I am also the official makeup artist for Maybelline Spain.

How did you start?

When I was 18 I wasn’t sure I wanted to get a college degree, so I combined my two passions at that moment: Fashion and painting. I gave a chance to the idea of becoming a makeup artist, and the first thing I did was knocking at the door of a Makeup Agency in Madrid. The day after, I was assisting a well known makeup artist. Then little by little, I was learning the profession and working my way up in the industry.

What are the things you love the most about your job?

I love beauty, and working in fashion is always a research for “new ways to show beauty”. It never stops so you have to keep moving and finding new challenges to discover what will be the next way to understand “Beauty”.

What are the challenges and difficulties you face?

This is an extremely creative world and sometimes you brain or your mood is on the opposite side. It’s during those moments when you can feel the pressure and stress emerging. As I say very often: “The client always expects you to create the best work of your career everyday”, and that is hard sometimes.

Celebrities you worked with…

Designer Carolina Herrera, Gigi Hadid, Christy Turlington, Jourdan Dunn, Penelope Cruz, among others…

Best advice you could give to women…

Enhance your favourite feature and cover (conceal) the one you like the least, and do it in less that 10 minutes. Life is too short to waste it in front of a mirror.

Best advice to a young person wanting to start with the same career…                          

Read and check every single magazine you can get your hands on in order to understand the different styles that come from the fashion industry. Try to find an agency so you can assist and learn from the best people possible. And do not take the success and the failures too seriously: This never should be the center of the world. Your family, friends and personal growth should be.

A memory you will never forget…

2 Seasons ago I had the honour of doing the makeup for Christy Turlington, in her Apartment in Tribeca. For a teenager of the 90s who lived the Supermodel era, it was a real dream. Besides, she is absolutely exquisite, an amazing model and person.