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The Body Stroke Game of Two Makeup Artistes

  • By Bryan Goh

The Body Stroke Game of Two Makeup Artistes
Two different body stroke games from different folks (makeup artistes as they are professionally called) — one who embraces blue while the other creates something ravishingly romantic.

Wong Ying Cui (@yyingcui):
The makeup artist of eight years calls her work “innately chaotic”, a reference to the tension she strikes depending on what is the flavour of the day. “A blue mushroom that comes from my obsession with the colour and the imperfhttps://www.mens-folio.com/93975/the-best-of-daniel-lees-bottega-veneta-in-mens-folio-menswear-looks/ectness of its stem,” she describes as the main driving force of this work. Wong used Kryolan paint applied with a sponge for “an organic texture” before using dental floss to create neon streaks — a look reminiscent of lichen.

Model Lucas Jong | Misc. Management

Kenneth Chia (@kenmuu)

With three years of experience that has him embracing the “romanticism of one’s character and their narrative”, Chia sought inspiration from surrealist artist Hagihara Takuya and conceptual makeup artist Gao Shan (高山). The result? “A landscape that flows with the curvature of the body and the organic forms. You have to ‘listen’ sometimes to the face or body and work accordingly to what it tells you”. 

Model Kaine N. | NOW Model Management

Photography Daryl Tan
Art Direction Izwan Abdullah
Grooming Assistant to Kenneth Shiying
Hair Christvian Wu | CINQ Salon using KEVIN.MURPHY

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