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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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It wasn’t way back that just about every face online looked the identical. , the Instagram Face with the graceful skin and FaceTuned features. A single, cyborgian look has been the usual for years, dominating social media feeds with its feline eye flick and dissociative pout – the sort that author Jia Tolentino once described as you “coyly but blankly, as if its owner has taken half a Klonopin and is considering asking you for a non-public jet to Coachella”. Well, now it’s getting an upgrade, as we enter the era of TikTok domination.
For today’s it-girls, it’s all about creating their very own unrealistic beauty standards for them to adapt to. “Are you cat pretty, bunny pretty, deer pretty...
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