Owner and Lead Makeup + Design Artist:

Valerie Macchi

Valerie is the owner and lead artist of Starstruck Station. She has always been a creative individual and dabbled in an array of artistic outlets. She started face painting professionally since 2017. This is when she discovered the joy that comes from working with clients and giving them a form of happiness from a transformative look.

Her family derives of entrepreneurs and creatives so it was no surprise when she decided to launch her business. She went to School of Makeup Effects to further her education and achieve her Beauty and SFX Journeyman certification.

She loves to travel, learn and connect with other creatives. She has taught fashion and design as well as a award winning film making courses for the program RWC (Real World Connections) on the NJIT campus as well as internationally at a University in the country of Colombia in Spanish.