5 more body art and SFX artists you need

25 Apr

As our identities become increasingly enmeshed with digital worlds, it’s easy to feel split between who we are online and who we are IRL. It’s a reckoning that’s led us to view our real-life selves as avatars we can upgrade, customise and deck out into new forms. One medium that has been expressing those ideas is the world of SFX and body art. Once more firmly rooted in film and TV, we’re now seeing SFX mutate its way onto runway shows, fashion campaigns and music videos, where distorted, contorting and varied takes on the human form are becoming increasingly popular. Some of this work channels anxiety: a fear of technology infiltrating the body, of the human form itself becoming obsolete. iPhones...

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25 Apr

Evanie Frausto’s Showpony pushes the boundaries of body wigs

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Evanie Frausto’s Showpony pushes the boundaries of body wigs

Evanie Frausto, ShowponyGallery / 7 images Evanie Frausto has never played it safe, even when he’s in the spotlight. “At the beginning of my career, I felt like I was putting myself out there a lot in terms of hairstyles that kind of push boundaries,” the hairstylist tells us, via a video call from Los Angeles. It’s the morning after the Grammy Awards, and he is fresh off styling an effortless, voluminous look for Sabrina Carpenter. “I started falling more into the role of a traditional hairstylist in a way, which I do appreciate and I do love,” he says. Frausto grew up in a conservative Mexican immigrant community and found early solace in the unconventional and interesting side of emo internet culture...

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24 Apr

Who is looksmaxxing really for?

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In 2024, I wrote an article about the direction male body image was heading. It was bleak, looking at how impressive male physiques of the 90s would now be considered average. At the time, there was an appetite for muscles that had once been reserved for superheroes and competitive body builders, but this was only an indicator of what was to come. Just a few years later, and the landscape surrounding male body image is more fraught than ever. Trends and terms like looksmaxxing, mewing and mogging, which originated in incel forums, have pushed male aesthetics to the extreme. The expectations have hit levels that feel practically unattainable. Fitness enhancing drugs, which were once only discussed in relation to competitive bodybuilders...

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19 Apr

Op-Ed: Renaming Black Hairstyles Promotes Erasure – essence.com

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Op-Ed: Renaming Black Hairstyles Promotes Erasure – essence.com

Manny Carabel/Getty Images Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Boxer braids? Buddha knots? Cloud bob? What now? In a since-removed image of Tracee Ellis Ross in a Vogue article about flattering haircuts for thicker hair types, her bouffant afro, beautifully captured framing her face, was instead called something else: a “cloud bob.” While bobs are undoubtedly trending and Ross’s fluffy ‘fro meets the style’s length requirement, the article quickly triggered a unified sentiment: “It’s 2026 and we’re gonna stop Christopher Columbus-ing Black people’s hairstyles,” said creator RaeShanda Lias in a TikTok video with over 70,000 likes (and counting). According to another creator known as certifiedreadergirl on the same platform, “they are trying to erase the afro so white people, particularly the Kardashians and the...

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