Make Up + Beauty

Jenna Bouma's tattoos take time and require patience. Using the method of stick and poke (a shamisen-bori method which doesn't require a tattoo gun), her techniques lean on the traditional but with an added...

When it comes to makeup, Marie Bruce is a sort of magician. With looks that vary from the day-to-day to the ultimate bizarre, she transforms her clients using brushes and paints. Though her work...

The last decade in fashion has arguably been the decade of nail art. With high profile celebrities like Cardi B and Khloe Kardashian sporting increasingly longer talons, nail artists like Mei Kawajiri have got...

Marine de Quénetain's illustrations distill the very essence of fashion. Covering a wide range of styles and disciplines, from illustration to pattern design, and posters to book covers, her subjects tend to center around the...

Sasha Ignatiadou’s illustrations center around powerful women, engulfed by flowers. Originally from Russia and currently based in Germany, Ignatiadou relies on acrylic, watercolors, oil paints, and some digital helpers, to create her colorful...

Leanne Woodley describes herself as an "editorial manicurist," but she might as well say she's an artist. With her nail designs described by British style magazine Dazed and Confused Magazine as miniature works of...

British-Iranian illustrator Mariam Tafsiri is greatly inspired by Qajar art—art made during the Qajar dynasty of the late Persian Empire, which lasted from 1781 to 1925 in Iran (then Persia). Tafsiri says that her...

For some, body acceptance begins at the tip of their nose. Award-winning writer and journalist, Radhika Sanghani, never dreamed she'd one day spearhead the big-nose movement, inspiring others to accept their big noses and...

The last decade has seen nail art take a huge leap forward, but Eichi Matsunaga takes it even further than that. “My philosophy is that detail is everything," said the Japanese nail artist in...

There are nail artists, and then there's Juan Alvear. Having graduated from Cooper Union, where he studied sculpting and painting, his nail art is treated as an art form in and of itself—a...