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21 Aug

Bonnie Bakeneko’s fetish face and mouth jewellery find beauty

Like many creatives who're othered for being ‘different’, Bonnie Bakeneko is all about difficult conventional beauty standards – something they do through their handmade bespoke fetish pieces for the face and mouth. Drawing on their struggles with mental health, the non-binary artist’s designs reflect the dark desires that underpin your deepest fantasies. Offering custom pieces to cater your personal aesthetic taste, Bakeneko’s extravagant designs vary from bejewelled cheek retractors – formerly confined to the dentist chair and something which Bakeneko’s own fears and anxieties have long been certain up in – to headpieces adorned with beetle wings and taxidermy. Growing up in rural Norwich, Bonnie finds solace within the quiet, seclusion of the countryside. With plans to relocate just outside...

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21 Aug

Remembering the primary ‘one:’ CK One Turns 25

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Remembering the primary ‘one:’ CK One Turns 25

Popular culture may be high on the nineties now as a ubiquitous trend, but one among its era-defining beauty products born 25 years ago has stayed at the highest of its game: CK One, Calvin Klein’s iconic unisex fragrance. While on paper it reads like an olfactory overdose (citrus-based with top notes of pineapple, mandarin orange, bergamot, cardamom, lemon and papaya), its mix has strongly courted mass appeal since its inception: not simply because of its scent alone, but in addition due to its all gender allure. CK One was one among the primary beauty products openly marketed as unisex: for a young, gender fluid customer in addition to for individuals who discover as male or female. Quite simply, it...

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21 Aug

Body artist Coral Johnson won’t stand on your bullshit

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Body artist Coral Johnson won’t stand on your bullshit

The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from the world over who're redefining the best way we take into consideration beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to makeup prodigies transforming themselves of their bedrooms, these are the sweetness influencers of tomorrow who embody every thing Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. “After I’m shoving a needle through someone’s skin, I make a reference to them,” explains Coral Johnson-McDaniel. “It’s fairly sentimental, a pure stranger is giving over their trust in me to change their personal canvas.” An expert body modification artist, freelance model, artist and muse, Coral’s relationship to needles could be traced back to watching her godmother perform piercings and etching vibrant ink...

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20 Aug

How one artist used photography to come back to

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How one artist used photography to come back to

Mari Katayama’s self-portraits often depict her within the centre of painstakingly arranged objects, either in intimate bedroom spaces or in vast and awe-inspiring landscapes. The objects vary in every bit; nonetheless, specific motifs constantly pop up, particularly, crabs, paying homage amongst other things to her star sign (cancer). You may even see handmade pillow-like objects in the form of limbs and mannequins. But no matter where she is, or what she surrounds herself with, the principal subject of her work is her, most notably her body. Well, that’s how you might be made to feel anyway, but Mari explains her work is all about experiences. “It just isn't in regards to the body itself, but more in regards to the gap...

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