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Julian Stoller is obsessive about women who’re almost distastefully glamorous. “Once I was a child, I started sketching pictures and writing little movies about washed-up actresses and disgruntled housewives,” he says. “Make-up became a form of distillation of my interest in these characters and stories.” This obsession comes through in his work where glamour is married with elements of stage make-up, the circus and subcultures to push it just over the sting of propriety. His signature powdery matte face, intricate swirled eye make-up often in metallic shades and brows which might be pencil-thin if there in any respect, recall the perfect of Latest Romantic make-up mixed with a 90s Pam Anderson aesthetic. He describes the look as “cold, concentrated and knock-off”.

Feeling frustrated with the sensible constraints of traditional make-up, Stoller has also been working with prosthetics, creating jaw bones that jut out through the skin and bodies almost bursting out of his face. While it’s a practice that requires a completely different skill set – one among technicality and precision – the tip goal of manipulating the face and body to your will stays the identical. He also loves seeing the shift people undergo after they have make-up on. “The facility of communicating only through augmenting or accentuating certain features has at all times attracted me,” he says.

At just 20 years old, Stoller has only just launched into his profession, but already his roster of clients – Julia Fox, Eartheater, Sky Ferreira, Richie Shazam, Isamaya Ffrench – suggests he’s began how he means to go on. Last yr he assisted Ffrench in creating the prosthetic animals at Collina Strada, while Fox has change into such a fan that it’s his make-up which adorns her face on the cover of her memoir, Down the Drain.

We speak to Stoller about his creative upbringing, performing in The Nutcracker and mewing.

Where do you live and where are you from?

Julian Stoller: I used to be born and raised in Seattle, but I’ve been living in Latest York City for the past two years. I moved here to check film in college, and I’m now in my junior yr. 

Are you able to tell us a bit about yourself and where you grew up?

Julian Stoller: I grew up with parents who really nurtured creativity. My mom spent loads of her life dancing and my dad is a bassist, in order that they encouraged me to fuck around with art and see what I used to be excited by. I used to be a fairly isolated kid, so I started constructing characters that excited me greater than my surroundings. After latching onto eccentric figures in popular culture and movies, I made a decision that I desired to make my very own. 

How did you get into make-up?

Julian Stoller: I began once I was 13, doing make-up for the performers at a neighborhood rock venue who thought I used to be cute enough to let me put eyeliner on them. In highschool, I began posting more elaborate looks done on myself to Instagram, but I believe things began really happening once I was 17, after I did a search for Jean Paul Gaultier’s RTW relaunch. Once I moved to Latest York just a few months later, I had already built up a tiny network of people who allowed me to hit the bottom running.

What are you trying to speak through your work?

Julian Stoller: Sex and money.

What’s your earliest beauty-related memory?

Julian Stoller: The smell of Ben Nye cream foundation that was slathered throughout my face before performing in The Nutcracker as a baby. 

What’s been your profession highlight to this point?

Julian Stoller: Having the ability to work with the individuals who made me want to start out doing this in the primary place, like Isamaya Ffrench and Patti Wilson. 

Which fictional character do you most relate to and why?

Julian Stoller: I aspire to relate to Valerie Cherish from The Comeback by the point I’m 37.

What’s your favourite look of all time?

Julian Stoller: I actually have so many favourite looks. Numerous Grace Jones, loads of Serge Lutens. Debi Mazar’s make-up as Spice in Batman Endlessly is ideal. Gaga is ceaselessly a beauty icon for me. And I like the make-up on women in David Lynch movies, Diane Ladd’s glam in Wild At Heart is fab. 

What’s your current obsession?

Julian Stoller: ‘Untouched’ by The Veronicas.

What does beauty mean to you?

Julian Stoller: Beauty is power. 

When do you feel most beautiful?

Julian Stoller: Mewing.

Are you optimistic concerning the future?

Julian Stoller: Yaaas. 

What’s the longer term of beauty?

Julian Stoller: Plastic. 

You’ve had an accident which causes you to lose your sense of smell. The doctors can’t return it fully but can provide you with the flexibility to smell one scent. What do you decide?

Julian Stoller: Liquid latex.

You have got to donate a feature/limb of your body to an icon of yours. You get nothing in return. What feature/limb do you give and who do you give it to?

Julian Stoller: I’d give all the pieces to Anjelica Huston, only for funsies.