PORTFOLIO MENTORSHIP

The LRA Portfolio Mentorship Experience is designed to help you create portfolio work that truly reflects your artistry. Guided by Lubna Rafiq and Ilmaas, you'll receive expert mentoring throughout the creative process from look selection and model preparation to makeup, hair, styling, posing and creative direction.

Working alongside our trusted creative partners, Hill House Media and The Cactus Agency, you'll have access to professional models, luxury styling, photography and videography, leaving with high end imagery and content that showcases your skills with confidence and professionalism.

Whether you're building your portfolio for the first time or refreshing your brand, this experience equips you with the guidance, confidence and industry standard content needed to attract clients, grow your business and elevate your presence within the beauty industry.

Great portfolios aren't created by chance, they're created through expert guidance, intentional creativity and attention to every detail.

How It Works

A woman applying makeup to another woman in a makeup studio, with a makeup artist holding a brush and close-up view of the makeup application.

Create Looks

Styling & Direction

A woman dressed in traditional Indian jewelry and attire having a necklace adjusted by a man with curly hair and glasses.

Design and execute your chosen makeup and hair styles

Work with our stylist to complete each look to a high standard

Professional Shoot

Receive Your Images

Photographer taking a picture of a woman in traditional Indian bridal attire with jewelry and a crown, standing against a maroon background decorated with hanging marigold flower garlands.
Camera screen showing a woman with curly hair, makeup, earrings, and a red top, looking at the camera with an expression of confidence.
Three women dressed in traditional and ornate Indian attire, posing together for a photo with a plain background, taken through a photography light reflector.
A woman posing in front of a photography backdrop, seen from a camera's point of view during a photoshoot, with studio lights overhead.

Model Selection

Choose Package

We provide professional models suited to your chosen looks

Select the session that aligns with your goals

Take home your full gallery of retouched images.

Your work is captured by an industry photographer.

Unlimited Portfolio Experience

Held once a month in a group session

Next Date: Saturday 26th September, London

Create as many looks as you can in 8 hours

Choose up to 2 professional models

Full access to clothes and jewellery

Makeup & Hair Guidance from Lubna and Ilmaas

Professionally retouched, portfolio ready images and video

Full creative direction and styling support from The Cactus Agency

£900 per person. Secure your space with a £300 deposit

Prefer something more private?

Private Portfolio Session with Lubna & Ilmaas offers an exclusive one to one experience designed to elevate your portfolio to truly reflect your talent. Working closely with Lubna & Ilmaas you'll receive personalised mentoring, creative direction and expert feedback throughout your shoot, you'll leave with premium portfolio content that showcases your skills, strengthens your personal brand and positions you to attract bridal, fashion, commercial and luxury clients with confidence.

£2,500 per person

Our Recent Student Portfolios

Student/Client Reviews

The entire experience felt so high end and organised. From the creative direction to the final shots, everything was done to an industry standard. It gave me a real insight into how professional shoots work, and the content I now have has taken my brand to another level.

— Alara Mallik

“The LRA portfolio session completely elevated my work. The level of detail, guidance, and support throughout the shoot was incredible, and the final images exceeded all my expectations. I left feeling so much more confident in my artistry and finally proud of my portfolio.”

— Rachel-Marie Diaz

“This was such a professional and well-structured experience from start to finish. Having access to models, styling, and a photographer all in one session made such a difference. The images I received have already helped me attract new clients and take my work more seriously.”

— Sana Ashraf