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This year’s standout beauty photo stories centred around body customisation – a shift away from last year’s favour of body optimisation. Whether it was the tattoos scattered across sweaty limbs and torsos in the club, or the body-painted garments crafted by SFX artists like Mab, readers gravitated to work that explored how we can adapt and alter what we already have. Here, we’ve rounded up seven of the best-performing beauty photo stories from 2025. Pace NotesGallery / 17 images Created by photographer Maxime Ballesteros with co-creative direction from Angel Velluto, this shoot reimagines rusted rally cars as living bodies. Ballet dancers, painted by Janina Zais, become peeled lacquer and twisted metal, collapsing the line between wreckage and flesh. Cybersigilism tattoo artistsGallery / 55...