The photo of which Lionel Messi и Christiano Ronaldo playing chess on a Louis Vuitton suitcase is one of the most popular posts in the history of the social network Instagram, with just over 37 million likes.

But few know that the Macedonian woman Simona Avramova was in charge of the make-up of the Argentinian soccer legend Messi, for the need of this, now, iconic photo session.

This talented girl has been living in Barcelona for almost seven years and works as a professional make-up artist and hairdresser for many world famous people, for the needs of several advertisements, fashion editorials and films.

Exclusively for "Free Press", she opened up about how this collaboration came about and how she feels about being a part of the story that's currently making headlines.

"Even though I have been Leo Messi's professional make-up artist for quite some time, when the production told me that we would have a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz as photographer and her sister Barbara Leibovitz as videographer for Louis Vuitton, including Cristiano Ronaldo, I said to myself: ' This will be the photo shoot of the year!'. I was so excited to be part of the team – everyone was so wonderful and professional. First of all, we were all very happy and excited to create such a historical photograph", Avramova told "Sloboden Pechat".

 

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Posted by Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano)