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25 Feb

Drag and make-up artist Laurel Charleston’s entire body is

Often covering themselves in ombré clouds, iconic paintings, and animal prints, the queer artist and orchestra assistant director talks us through their dramatic transformations The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from internationally who're redefining the way in which 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 all the pieces Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. How do you define drag make-up? For NY city-based artist Laurel Charleston, the chances are daring and the personas infinite – their Instagram feed will blow your mind. Sure, the 23-year-old gives impressive...
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10 Dec

Laurel Charleston Dazed 100 | Dazed

Having trained and worked as a classical music conductor, creating boundary-pushing make-up looks for Doja Cat perhaps wasn’t essentially the most obvious next step for Laurel Charleston. But that’s exactly what she’s done. Fast forward to today and he or she is a daily collaborator of Doja’s, liable for the star’s recent awe-inspiring, blockbuster make-up including the No Face-esque painted look and the swirling white patterns that spread across her face like a sea creature.But it surely’s not only her work with celebs proving her Instagram bio – “Turning makeup into superb art” – true. Using her own face as a canvas for mind-bending paintings, Charleston creates a gradual stream of optical illusions and experimental graphic looks, plus painstaking recreations...
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