ABOUT IOANA

Artist.Teacher.Mentor.

Permanent makeup, taught the way
I wish I had been taught.

Master PMU artist, international speaker, competition judge. Founder of Royal Beauty Center, Brussels. The training I offer is the answer to fifteen years of asking what was missing in everyone else's.

Ioana Varzaru
Ioana Vărzaru
Ioana Vărzaru in studio
THE WORK SO FAR

Twenty years in beauty.
Eight in permanent makeup.
One conviction throughout.

I came to permanent makeup after twelve years in classical aesthetics — and found a profession at a turning point.

PMU was growing fast. The training wasn't. Two-day mastery promises, online theory without the legal frameworks, trainers passing on what they'd been taught without questioning it.

Eight years later, I run my studio in Brussels, train artists across Europe, and judge international competitions. The work deserves better training than the industry currently provides.

That is what I am building.

RECOGNITION

Where the work has been seen.

20+ Years in Beauty

Twelve years in classical aesthetics. Eight in permanent makeup. The whole arc of the profession.

International SpeakerSpeaker

Featured at PMU conferences across the United States, the European Union, and the United Arab Emirates.

Competition JudgeJudge

Active judge at WULOP and other international PMU championships — the perspective behind my Championship Masterclass.

Royal Beauty Center

Founder of Royal Beauty Center, Brussels — my studio, where every training takes place.

Regional Organizer

Organizer of the Queen’s Night Benelux semi-final — bringing international competition culture to the region.

PHILOSOPHY

What I've come to believe
after eight years.

PMU is one of the few skilled professions where someone trained well in five days can build a career with no ceiling. It is also one of the few where someone trained poorly in five days will reach a permanent ceiling within their first year — and never know why.

The difference is not talent. The difference is what was actually taught.

I believe technique is half the work. The other half is what surrounds it: how you set up your studio, how you price your work, how you communicate with clients, how you photograph your results, how you handle the cases that don't heal as expected.

I believe small cohorts produce better artists than large ones. I believe lifetime support means more than ten thousand pages of curriculum. I believe critique is more useful than encouragement. I believe most students who feel stuck aren't lacking talent — they're lacking the right teacher.

This is the work I offer. It's the work I wish I'd had when I started.

WHO TRAINS HERE

The artists who choose this path.

The students who train with me come from across Europe and beyond. They tend to share three things, regardless of where they are in their career.

Commitment
to the craft

Mastery is years of work, not five days of class.

Willingness
to be critiqued honestly

Clear, specific feedback — with the context to fix it.

Long-term
thinking

Building a career that will last twenty years.

SEE THE WORK IN REAL TIME

Let's connect.

For day-to-day documentation of training sessions, healed results, and student work — the channels here.

THE NEXT STEP

Find your path.

Whether you're starting from zero, refining what you already do, or preparing for international competition — there's a course built for where you are.

Learn with me.

Each course has a written application, not a checkout button. I read every one personally. Expect a response within 48 hours.

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