Who’s Lucy Fitz?
Hi, welcome!
My name is Lucy Fitzgibbon, better known as Lucy Fitz and formally known as lucyfitzmakeup (iykyk). I am a twenty-four year old artist, a Leo baby, from Co. Limerick, Ireland.
My love for creating has been with me from an early age. As long as I can remember I’ve been making something with my hands. Drawing, crafting, sculpting using random things I’d find lying around the house. Anything and everything I found inspiration in to make something new out of. Creating is my safe place and I have so many fond memories of the places my imagination took me as a child. I still feel the same excitement now as I did then when a new idea arises and so creating is pretty much my whole being. It’s who I am, it’s what I love to do!
My journey has been experimental and experiential, a rollercoaster of succeeding and failing, from make-up and vlogging to tattoos and painting.
As a teenager, I channeled my creativity into make-up and content creation, that’s where my career as an artist truly began. The time I spent not in school I was vlogging my life, working weekends as a make up artist and attending social events. I grew my instagram to 80K followers by 2019. With this came amazing opportunities and experiences both professionally and personally. The people I met, the businesses I worked with- I can’t believe how lucky I was. The biggest collaboration was my eyeshadow palette in collaboration with Inglot Cosmetics when I was 19. That was a pinch me moment and still is my claim to fame lol. Being in the public eye in a relatively small place as a teenager was challenging I’ll admit. I think at times I struggled to cope with it. I was super busy with school and the constant doings outside of it too. By the time I finished school I was working as a full time creator and didn’t have much direction on where I wanted to go. My every day life was starting to leave me feeling unfulfilled, and I didn’t have much ambition at the time to take my career up a step as a content creator in Ireland. In 2021 at the fine age of 20, I decided to pack my things and move to Barcelona.
I spent almost 4 years living in Barcelona and now I live between Spain and Ireland.
Living in a new city in your early 20s was amazing. I got to be free, express myself (I even had a Britney moment and shaved my head, it was so liberating). I fell in love with people and places and life. I experienced so many different cultures and met amazing people, it completely opened my mind. It’s also where I met my two fur babies Bruno and Bonny.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows.. there was a tremendous amount of loss and grievance too. I found out I was pregnant the day after my 22nd birthday, and 20 weeks later I lost a baby girl to the misjudgments of the system. I called her Lola, and she is so special to me. She is quite literally my god/universe/higher power now. Losing her had a huge impact on me, it changed me forever. Everything I do I pray to her, she keeps me going and is my motivation to live a happy, peaceful life.
Living in Barcelona, my love for vlogging and makeup took a back seat. Instead, I began to paint and draw more. I started to take my art more seriously and enrolled in a 12 week coarse in Metaforá Studio Arts in Barcelona. I had my first exhibition a few months after my big move in 2021, it was surreal. It was then I knew Barcelona was the right move for me. Over the years I kept up my love for drawing and painting which led to great opportunities. As the brand deals became less and less, I decided to venture into tattooing in 2022, shortly after I lost Lola. The moment I lost her I vouched to myself I would become a full time artist, and that was that. It was something to focus on, a few hours of my day I could distract myself from the pain I was feeling inside. I leaned heavily on my love for tattooing, to help me through my loss. Originally a hand poke artist, I am now a full time travelling tattoo artist and I fricking love it. I grew my skills in a studio in Barcelona and now I travel Ireland and Europe doing guest spots in different tattoo studios.
I named my tattoo business LUCYLOOLA, totally inspired by my little girl Lola.
