Julia S. Merino was born in 1992 in Cádiz, Spain. She attended the University of Seville where she graduated in Fine Arts in 2014.

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She moved to London where she works and graduated in Hair, makeup and Prosthetics for Performance from London College of Fashion (UAL) in 2018.

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She won the Ve Neill Legends of Makeup Scholarship 2018. 

Thanks to this she had the opportunity of extending her knowledge at Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles.

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She works as a freelance makeup artist and as a prosthetics workshop technician, and she has also designed a few feature films such as Boiling Point with Stephen Graham or A Violent Man.