Just imagine. You are in a whirlwind of colors, textures, and brushes, held aloft by skill powerful enough to cultivate a garden of color on your face. You’re more than putting on the base coat. It’s as though paint was heading right to your face. artistic makeup is a game of fantasy and reality, and creativity is all the main character that plays madness. The face is your canvas. This is the supply-and-demand meeting of imagination, where Bob Ross visits Picasso that has decided to exchange oils for eyeshadow palettes. Are you clear about it? Okay, in this hodgepodge field, let’s go deep.
Don’t mistake artistic makeup for simply hiding flaws. It tells stories and speaks volumes without saying a word. Do you ever catch yourself thinking your makeup is about to drop some Shakespeare on a bunch of unsuspecting spec-tators? Maybe it’s your inner unicorn that suddenly desires a glitter explosion with eyebrows like a disco ball. In the cosmic world of artistic makeup, nothing is too crazy.
A cobramare of mine once made up her mind to go to a party as Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’. By the end of the night, spoiler alert: she looked more like an abstract Picasso than Van Gogh, but that’s the fun of it. Perfection is boring in this merry-go- ‘round of creativity. Sometimes the eyebrow wants to spring into a rainbow, and guess what? That’s just fine.
Artistic makeup is a definition of breaking boundaries if ever there was one. Mixing textures and layers more finely than a quilt of great-grandmother’s may count as just a part of the excitement. It’s about blending in–not with the crowd, but the colors, bringing forth new colors, rather like a mad chemist in a laboratory but with more eyeliner and less Frankenstein.
The charm of artistic makeup is its stubborn nature. No mountain is too high, no color too vibrant. A make-up artist may let his inspiration be drawn from nature, architecture, or even an image that he can barely recall. His friend is unpredictability and he is his proof, shouting out loud ‘you are the man’. It makes a dialogue with you heart, where a lipstick may chunter on with rebellions, or a brush whispers in the language of nostalgia.
The technique-savvy make-up artist may log on to Pinterest in a look-see or check out Instagram for a fresh muse. Social media is now a treasure trove for makeup addicts busy painting the town. This was how a panda eye made its debut at brunch. Did it look more racoon than panda? No argument. Was it fun? You can bet your last bronzer brush it was.
To all makeup fans, whether dyed in glitter or great master of the subtle lifestyles line: may your palettes be brighter, your attempts never deplete. Let those brushes waltz, let the colors sing, in your mind may not be any limiting factor.