Hey!

I’m Ashley Kay , your hair and makeup artist and fully licensed and experienced, tattoo artist, microblader, dermaplaner and microneedler. I’m based in Norwich but once you get to know me, you’ll realise I was born in Texas and raised in California - though it’s hard to pin point where I’m from as I’ve also lived in the UK for 20 years. I have a little boy who encourages me in my art and you will often find us painting and creating together!

I'm a Luxury Bridal Hair & Makeup Artist with over 15yrs in the industry- having worked all over the world and UK on large and intimate weddings.

I am known for my natural approach to hair and makeup, creating an aesthetic which is modern and beautiful for my clients, brands and brides from all over the world. My aim is to enhance and elevate natural beauty, not mask it!

I had a passion for art, interior design, fashion and music from a very young age , so it wasn’t a surprise to anyone when I built a business that allowed me to artistically express myself through this form of art. Aside from training as a watercolourist, interior illustrator and designer, I also have a degree in psychology and social sciences which I find ties in wonderfully with my creative business, giving me the tools to listen and understand my client’s wants and needs while utilising my artistic skills.

How did it all begin, you ask?

I would say it started when I was about 8, but the real budding of my career began in 2004 when I moved to London to work for a children’s television company (the creator of Bob the Builder - and yes, it was a ton of fun!). When the girls in the office would go to the BAFTAS , I would do their hair and makeup for them, to help them out. It was then that I realised that I really needed to get back to doing something creative with my hands.

I jumped ship, left TV and began working in a photographic studio in Chelsea then soon after, went freelance as a hair and makeup artist in 2008, where things really kicked off.

I moved out of London and my career in fashion, wedding hair and makeup really took off. I was soon doing 40+ weddings a year and training up assistants to give myself and clients a helping hand!

You will now find me doing weddings most weekends, covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Scotland and Destination weddings. It is not uncommon to see me in, France, Greece, Italy, Spain or Croatia, Greece , working on brides and their bridal parties! But it doesn’t stop there. I regularly work on corporate photoshoots and videos in, Norfolk, the Cambridge Colleges and businesses nationwide.

Things that I am proud of in my career so far!

Some of my highlights include work in high end magazines such as Vogue, Elle, You and Your Wedding, Velvet, Cambridge Magazine and Rock My Wedding magazines. My work has also been featured on top wedding blogs, Magpie Wedding, Festival Brides, English Wedding Blog, Pretty and Punk Weddings,  StyleMePretty and My English Wedding.

Some of my work outside bridal, to name a few, consists of key makeup & hair artist for, , Coral Eyewear, Troubadour Goods, Pom Pom Magazine, Country Attire, Whale of a Time Clothing, Studio Adorn, Pico Goods,  ITV’s Home of Fabulous Cakes, Discovery Health & Beauty, Fandango TV for Stephen Hawking, Ghost for John Lewis, Hawes & Curtis, Clamp Optometrists, Deliveroo, Alzheimer's Research UK, Humira and The Sun.