Valentina Li is a Chinese makeup and body artist known for turning the face and body into imaginative visual canvases. Her practice spans beauty, face painting and body art, with concepts often beginning in dreams or sketches before developing into elaborate characters and otherworldly final images.

Li’s work sits at the boundary between makeup artistry and image-making. Rather than using cosmetics only to enhance features, she treats skin as a surface for color, transformation and narrative, giving her work a strong identity within fashion’s increasingly experimental beauty landscape.

Her client list spans major global houses and brands including Prada, Gucci, Burberry, Moncler, Revlon, Byredo, Elizabeth Arden, MAC, Valentino, Calvin Klein, APM Monaco, Alexander Wang and Nike. That range demonstrates how her distinctive visual language can move between luxury, beauty, fashion and sportswear. Her editorial work has appeared in titles including Vogue US, Vogue China, Harper’s Bazaar, Dazed, ELLE, T Magazine, Madame Figaro, Wallpaper, L’Officiel and Modern Weekly.

Together, these projects have positioned Li as part of a generation of Chinese beauty creatives whose work circulates naturally within the global fashion-image ecosystem.