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25 Apr

Echo Seireeni’s prosthetic creations are warping reality

Echo Seireeni’s prosthetic creations are warping reality
Community: Echo SeireeniGallery / 14 images Prosthetic artist and MUA Echo Seireeni has built a world of transformations that feels almost mythic. “I see make-up as a filter – a kind of protective mask between the model and the camera,” she says. It’s a mask that’s taken many forms across the faces of underground icons: Bladee made ghostly with airbrushed veins and gunmetal shadows, a latex-soft bunny crafted for Fontaines DC, and Eartheater crowned with horns and splashed in Pepto Bismol pink beneath the desert sun. She champions a philosophy of make-up as an extension of self, whether literally through prosthetics or conceptually. “I’ve come to a relatively stable conclusion that make-up has always been a tool to mediate the relationship between...
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26 Nov

An excessive amount of exposure to hot people is

An excessive amount of exposure to hot people is
The web is a sea of hot people. Conventionally attractive influencers monopolise social media via algorithmic bias toward young, symmetrical faces; we’re served constant behind-the-scenes content of lovely celebrities; and porn and AI favour the de-facto toned, young hot person. Even those near us are rendered preternaturally flawless via filters, Facetune, and the artful mastering of lighting and angles. It’s been well established that the digital ubiquity of “unrealistic beauty standards” is whittling away at our self-esteem and mental health. What has been unpacked less exhaustively, nonetheless, is the impact it’s having on our dating lives. Online, men are calling Sydney Sweeney and Margot Robbie “mid”, rating the latter a seven out of ten on the universal scale of hotness, and...
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