Florence Cornet has been exploring ways to connect with the public through her makeup designs for over two decades.

After graduating from Collège de Sainte-Foy in Quebec City in the early 1980s, Florence took makeup courses offered by the Gaspesian set designer Yvan Gaudin. This experience awoke her future métier. Her training continued at Mikie Hamilton's Mytho Maquillages school. Her prolific professional career began before she turned 20.

Florence's career path took her to France in 1985 for an internship in makeup, which led, among other things, to a double assignment as artistic director and set designer for a multicultural show at the World Marionette Festival. Since then, she has accumulated an impressive list of credits in makeup, costume design, art direction and marionettes. She has worked on some 200 Quebec productions. Her work has been featured in productions at Le Théâtre Petit à Petit, the Théâtre du Trident, the Théâtre de la Licorne and the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. She has worked with many renowned Quebec theatre directors including Serge Denoncourt, Dominic Champagne, Claude Poissant, Wajdi Mouawad, Denise Guilbault, Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon.

In addition to teaching makeup for about 20 years in various theatre schools, including the National Circus School in Montreal, Florence Cornet has worked in film and television, notably as head makeup artist on the TV series Hommes en quarantaine. In 2000 she received a Gémeaux Award nomination (best makeup) for her work on Une Âme Immortelle produced by Cine Qua Non Film and directed by Bernar Hébert.

This is not the first time Florence Cornet has worked for Cirque du Soleil. She worked as a makeup assistant on KÀ in 2004, and  on a number of special events. KOOZA is her first assignment with the company as a makeup designer. "I explored textures inspired by the Middle East and Africa, where you have recourse to gold, jewels, brilliance and earth. I adopted a signature that favors the spontaneity of gesture, and accentuates the asymmetry of line, the instinctive and the ritual."

Florence Cornet has lived in Montreal for 20 years. She was born in 1963 in Toulon, in the South of France. She moved to Quebec at the age of five.