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How would Alice Dodds describe her aesthetic in three words? “Bimbo, silly, limitless,” the make-up artist says. Scroll through her portfolio and ‘limitless’ definitely involves mind. It’s a circus of beauty looks: clown-inspired body paint, perfectly bimbo-like false eyelashes and glossed lips, alien-like eyebrows and colored contact lenses, and heavy fake piercings, inspired partially by the goths and bikers she saw while growing up in her seaside town. “They were really not afraid of individuals judging and staring,” she says. “I’ve at all times admired that over-the-top authenticity.”

Perhaps this drive to pursue creative authenticity explains why Dodds’s looks feel so fresh. So free from the confines of trends and the restraints of conventional beauty norms. They’re uniquely, authentically her own. However it’s not something that’s necessarily easy. “On the planet we live in, particularly the style industry, we’re all on top of one another and accessible to one another on a regular basis,” she says. “To have the option to still be individual inside that, and really be authentic, is difficult and impressive to me. [Beauty is] making decisions completely of your individual volition; autonomy over every selection you make relating to how you’re employed, live, express yourself.” 

She’s clearly doing something right: since moving from Norfolk to London seven years ago, Dodds has carved out a firm name for herself on the creative scene. Celine, Dazed Beauty and Notion are only a few of the names she’s now worked for (not to say MUA-ing for a recent Fontaines DC appearance on Jimmy Fallon). Read on for a glimpse into Dodds’s brain.

Are you able to tell us a bit about yourself? 

Alice Dodds: I’m a loud, friendly, anxious, unrefined small-town girl. I grew up in a seaside town between King’s Lynn and Norwich, with arcades, fish and chips, biker meet-ups next to the pier every Sunday, that form of place. I moved to London to check art and design once I was 18. Growing up those were the one things that basically interested me and that I had any particular skill in, but it surely wasn’t until I discovered make-up that I felt like I had found that thing I actually loved which took me quite some time and a variety of failed attempts.  

How did you get into make-up? 

Alice Dodds: Being at art school, and being around so many creatives inspired me to be more experimental with my very own look. Once I began I just did daring make-up on myself which once I look back at them now I can’t consider how bad I looked but I suppose that’s a part of the journey. The primary time I did make-up on another person my friend and favourite photographer Verity Smiley Jones asked me to do make-up for a shoot we did in my bedroom after which it went from doing it once every six months to each two months, to each week and now it’s most days.  

What’s your earliest beauty-related memory?

Alice Dodds: I’m unsure if you happen to would call it beauty but within the town I grew up in there have been so many goths and really heavily tattooed and pierced people. I even have at all times admired that over-the-top authenticity, they were really not afraid of individuals judging and staring. 

Also my mum, my whole life she’s at all times worn the identical shade of peachy coral lipstick (she told me to be sure that I mention it’s Dior). I like when people make their very own statements about what beauty is to them, whether it’s a completely pierced face or your go-to lip color. And simply because she is gorgeous.

What’s been your profession highlight to date? 

Alice Dodds: I don’t have a specific highlight, I never did thoroughly at school. I didn’t have much drive to do anything and suffered from a variety of mental health problems, so to only do something I like as my job, I’m so massively surprised and mostly lucky.

Which fictional character do you most relate to?

Alice Dodds: In response to a Buzzfeed quiz I took, I’m the goth that dies of a drug overdose in Breaking Bad. But I feel I’m more like Cosmo Kramer.

Who’s your beauty icon or favourite look of all time?

Alice Dodds: There are such a lot of but my first thought was Grace Jones. I just think she has at all times been that bitch, in her style and her confidence. She’s a real original and I feel that’s hard to say. Honourable mention to Heidi Klum’s worm, a favorite look of all time absolute confidence. 

When do you are feeling most beautiful?

Alice Dodds: Lips filled, lashes done and with my friends because they’re all ugly so I look higher by comparison.

What’s the longer term of beauty? 

Alice Dodds: I hope for more individuality, variety and inclusion, with less ready-to-wear and more batshit insane ‘unwearable’ art. But probably [it will be] more Kardashian look-alikes. 

As a warning to the opposite members of the resistance, your head is to be mounted above the gates of the town. How would you do your makeup that morning? 

Alice Dodds: Just something really cunty, thin winged liner, huge glossy overlined lips and a variety of baby pink blush. And I actually hope I got my lashes done the day before.

It’s the 12 months 2100. You’re the owner of the biggest beauty tech company on this planet, what five products or treatments will you dedicate your resources to attempt to invent?

Alice Dodds: Considered one of those mechanic arms that sprayed that Alexander McQueen SS/99 dress on the runway – one in all those, but you programme it to do your whole face. Also a young without end serum, pain-free fillers, pain-free tattoo removal, and a lipstick with mood ring technology. 

If not your body then, is there anything you’ll want to go away behind? An artwork you have not done yet, a book, a bloodline? 

Alice Dodds: I might love someone to do a series of really stunning regal portraits of me and for them to be hung up within the homes of my family and friends after my passing.