Today we’d like to introduce you to Fab Stolfa.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I started working with artistic makeup when I was 17. There wasn’t much hope then. My country was collapsing in slow, constant ways, and the life I imagined for myself felt impossible. Everything felt small and closed in.
I found artistic makeup without knowing what I was looking for. It wasn’t beauty or confidence. It was a way to release what I couldn’t carry anymore. I began with nothing, learning through urgency rather than intention.
Creating became a necessity. Faces turned into surfaces where I could place anger, grief, fear, and distortion. Makeup didn’t save me or fix my life. It simply gave me somewhere to exist when everything else felt unlivable.
That space is still expanding. My work continues to shift, change, and reveal itself, shaped by what I’ve lived and by what I haven’t yet.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It hasn’t been an easy path. I’ve often worked with limited resources and without much external support, which meant i learned most of what I know on my own, expressing what I felt with the little I had.
Much of the challenge was quiet, staying committed to the work through uncertainty and self-doubt. I haven’t always been consistent, but every time I returned to my work, I grew a little more.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I focus on artistic and experimental makeup, usually working on myself through self-portraits. Each piece is a way to explore emotion, identity, and surreal ideas, blending color, texture, and form to express what words cannot.
What sets me apart is treating makeup as more than decoration. It’s a medium to exist, reflect, and reveal inner landscapes.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
I believe creating is a risk in itself, and making vulnerable art is even more so. Through what I create, pieces of my story surface, opening a quiet door to my inner world.
My mind doesn’t always welcome uncertainty, but choosing to share my work and explore different creative sides of myself has been one of my biggest risks. I don’t believe art has fixed boundaries, and I want to continue coexisting with uncertainty if it allows me to connect more deeply with what I create.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Fabstolfa
Image Credits
Image credit: Self-portrait Fab Stolfa
