22
Oct
Face Tag
Doja Cat just isn't only a singer but a visionary. After shaving her head and eyebrows three months ago on Instagram live and facing a load of unwanted online criticism, the Grammy award-winning artist is using her newfound look as a blank canvas to paint outside the lines, pushing the boundaries past a standard face.
From creative direction to her personality, the “Woman” singer has all the time been progressive yet distinctive. Initially playing it protected with complex eyeshadows from geometric shapes to intermediate cut creases, it feels as if she craved more. Discovering and reimagining an inventive visage of eyebrows, the expressive genius turned to a skinny white pencil, a drawing of mini apples and hearts, and even accouterments...
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At first blush, one might describe Isamaya Ffrench as a makeup artist (or MUA), however the label proves woefully reductive. While her painted faces have graced the runways of Thom Browne, Junya Watanabe, and Vivienne Westwood, she is an artist with a capital A.
Citing English painter Francis Bacon, French photographer and perfumer Serge Lutens, and Japanese illustrator Hajime Sorayama as inspirations—visual artists who were once on the vanguard of innovation—Ffrench is now carrying the torch forward in her own way.
Using the human face and body as her canvases—including those of Cher, Bella Hadid, and most recently Kate Moss for the September 2022 cover of French Vogue, not to say her own—she often conjures whiplash lines characteristic of Art Nouveau while...
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