Live Services
*Available throughout southern California.
Hi! I’m Samina Farooqi, a calligrapher and an engraving artist based in southern California. My calligraphy and engraving services help luxury brands with on-site events, brand activations and launches, as well as personalizing and customizing gifts, perfume bottles, beauty products, tags, labels and cards for VIP clients and influencers.
I also offer in studio work for events where I ship your products back to you after customizing them.
On-site calligraphy, engraving and painting adds a PERSONAL touch of sophistication and elegance, elevating the image of your luxury brand.
When I provide services on-site, it also peaks curiosity!
Customers enjoy gathering around the table and watching my skills, LIVE and in person, as I customize their products with their names, initials or any phrase they choose. It instantly becomes a custom-made product, designed to their liking, that they can walk out with that same day. And they only received it at YOUR event. That’ll give them something to talk and share about on social media for sure!
With the utmost care and exquisite craftsmanship, I can enhance and personalize your products to invoke the pleasure of your clientele. This creates both admiration and loyalty for your brand.
Feel free to reach out to me via email (hello@saminafarooqi.com) or by clicking the request form button below and let’s figure out how to make your next event one that will forever be engraved in their minds! (Sorry about the pun! I had to!)
Ever considered a live engraving artist at your event?
How about live calligraphy?
It’s a unique and RARE skill, something your clients have probably never seen LIVE.
Calligraphy
Clients can experience my live calligraphy services on paper packaging and goods, greeting cards, gift tags and certain fabrics. I use permanent ink to elegantly draft and design names, initials or short phrases these surfaces and clients will be sure to cherish the items as keepsakes.
Engraving
I offer live engraving services on glass, hard plastics and metal. I use a small pen-like, hand-held tool to etch these surfaces leaving permanent engravings. I can engrave letters, floral-line work or swirly designs. The final results always leave the clients in awe.
Hot-Foiling
Hot-foiling is a technique in which a thin sheet of silver or gold foil is burnt on to leather or fabric surfaces using a hand-held heating tool. Live hot-foiling proves to be a crowd-pleasing experience in which the client sees the end result at the same time as the artist! The thin sheet of foil is peeled back to reveal it’s remnants left behind in an intricate swirl of letters representing the client’s name or initials.
Floral Design
Floral Design work can be provided as a live service either in the form of floral line-work illustration or floral painting. This can service can be provided on most surfaces such as paper, leather and glass, and may also be provided as an add-on. I’ve been painting flowers since 2020 and consider it to be one of my strong suit.