Isamaya Ffrench interview: meet the revolutionary make-up artist

15 Dec

Isamaya Ffrench interview Isamaya Ffrench interview To explain Isamaya Ffrench as a revolutionary force inside the beauty industry looks like an understatement. As we noted when she launched Isamaya, her eponymous beauty brand earlier this yr, her work as global beauty director of Burberry, the unique creative director of each Dazed Beauty and Byredo make-up, and collaborations with musicians, designers, and photographers alike have resulted in images which are strikingly visceral, sometimes disturbingly so. But beneath their arresting surface are at all times serious questions: how is our perception of beauty formed? How can we subvert those perceptions? Is there any such thing as beauty anyway? Can that which is ‘ugly’ or ‘grotesque’ not be beautiful too? With the newest, rodeo-themed drop from Isamaya’s Wild...

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10 Dec

Cyshimi is the artist showing nail art generally is

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Cyshimi is the artist showing nail art generally is

Interdisciplinary artist Cyshimi’s work challenges normative beauty ideals, and celebrates the plurality of bodies and identity 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 make-up prodigies transforming themselves of their bedrooms, these are the sweetness influencers of tomorrow who embody every thing Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. Cyshimi’s first beauty memory is the unusually long little fingernail of their Chinese grandfather – a practice amongst Chinese men that harks back to the country’s dynastic days. “It’s funny to see where I'm now”, says Cyshimi. What seemed strange...

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9 Dec

How Bardo’s Makeup Artist Kept Actors’ Skin Moisturized While

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How Bardo’s Makeup Artist Kept Actors’ Skin Moisturized While

Many hairstylists will let you know how hectic a salon can get, but Lucy Betancourt sees the salon floor busyness and raises you the chaotic hustle and bustle of a movie set – where she was tasked with keeping 100 actors from burning within the desert sun in Mexico. Temperatures there can reach 91 degrees, not exactly ideal for long shoot days. For the past few months, the Mexican-born hairstylist and makeup artist has been immersed on the earth of Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, an upcoming Netflix film that follows journalist Silverio Gama through the lens of several trippy dreams that blur into reality as he navigates fame, criticism, and identity. Betancourt, the film's lead hairstylist...

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22 Nov

Make-up artist Grace Ellington is finished with boring beauty

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Make-up artist Grace Ellington is finished with boring beauty

With make-up that's playful, joyful and expressive, Polyester’s beauty editor is just having fun From digital artists to photographers, body sculptors and hair stylists to make-up and nail artists, in our Highlight series, we profile the creatives tearing up the rulebook of their respective industries. “I do think that make-up isn’t really a serious thing,” says Grace Ellington. “But that’s really liberating because should you remove the pretence and lower the stakes you may just have a good time with it.” And that’s exactly what she does. The south London make-up artist’s work is stuffed with color, energy and the type of off-the-wall looks that come out of creative freedom and joyful experimentation. Ethereal butterflies...

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