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“Beauty has been an actual journey for me,” says Ami Evelyn Hughes. “I even have come to embrace my funny, round look. I even have this little weird cherub face and this big fleshy body and it’s not what I might have chosen nevertheless it’s me.”

Growing up within the East Midlands to ex-army parents, artist and author Ami didn’t take into consideration beauty or body confidence very much. “I grew up confident in my creative ability and intelligence,” she says, “my dad praised my skills over my looks.”  

In 2015, Ami founded the anti-fashion magazine GUT alongside Georgia Kemball, who she met at Brighton University where they were each studying art. Frustrated by the shortage of inspiration and imagination in mainstream publications, GUT was a celebration of the instinctual, the clumsy and the raw; an area where they may explore all the pieces from adult breastfeeding in Renaissance paintings to Scottish folklore to vomit art. “We were uninterested in only seeing sleek, over-considered images,” Ami told Dazed on the time. “We wish GUT to be raw and from a really real place – to have soul, integrity and courage.”

Now on its fourth issue, GUT’s latest incarnation focuses on death and the underworld, addressing different points surrounding physical in addition to theatrical death, from possession to mythological beliefs of the ‘underworld.’

Outside of GUT, Ami acts as art director for plenty of brands and is currently preparing for her first solo show which launches at Soft Opening this Christmas.

What’s your earliest beauty related memory?
The very first things that got here to mind are me plucking my eyebrows so thin after an awful girl at college told me I had caterpillar eyebrows (dream eyebrows) they usually have sadly never grown back. Also sitting on the beach with my auntie Sharon and her telling me never to shave my legs above my knees.

What does beauty mean to you?
Beauty has been an actual journey for me. I feel like your parents really shape this aspect of yourself, it’s funny that the one two things I even have ever liked about myself are my nose and my skin. The one kind remark my dad ever made was about my nose, he said: “people pay to get perfect little noses like yours”. As I’ve gotten older and wiser, I realise beauty is in confidence and I even have spade a great deal of that. A few years ago Claire Barrow put me in her amazing campaign and since then I even have been forged a number of times for really amazing things and this has really modified my outlook on myself and what beauty actually means. I even have come to embrace my funny, round look. I even have this little weird cherub face and this big fleshy body and it’s not what I might have chosen nevertheless it’s me.

It’s the sixth day and you’re creating humans. They’ll look nonetheless you would like them to. What do they appear like and why?
Elves, Orcs, goblins, wizards, fairies, trolls, ents, sirens, demons…

Tomorrow you get up with one other face of your selection. Whose is it and why?
Anna Nicole’s. Because she was perfect.

Should you could have a latest sense on top of your existing ones, what wouldn’t it be?
Mind reading.

You may have to switch your body with that of an animal or a mythological creature. What do you go for and why?
Definitely a dragon because they’re strong and mysterious.  

A friend once exclaimed that when he dies he wants ‘Weeping virgins carved from marble to be placed in a circle around his grave’. What would your ideal tombstone appear like?
An enormous carved stone crying angel with massive lips and boobs, wearing a bonnet and probably the most feathery regal angel wings you’ve ever seen.

What’s the long run of beauty?
Real inclusivity, no token fat girls, black girls, trans girls, no ‘token’ anyone just beauty as individuality and ensuring anyone growing up on this era and the subsequent that beauty is about confidence and only you possibly can give yourself it and that everyone seems to be ‘enough’ on their very own.  

It’s 30 years from now. You stumble home at 3 am and catch your reflection within the fridge door. What do you appear like?
Little Edie.