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Body art & fashion atelier · London

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Seven looks, one face. Watch it change.

Look 01 · Gloss

Orange, poured on.

Cadmium-orange gel, laid on with a brush and let to run.

Look 02 · Dots

Then it learns a pattern.

Four hundred hand-placed dots in black, white and orange.

Look 03 · Bloom

A flag, in flowers.

Blue and yellow blocks, finished with real blooms set on skin.

Look 04 · Cyan

Blue through and through.

A full-body cyan base, gerbera lenses and nothing else.

Look 05 · Plume

Torn open, feathers out.

Peacock and pheasant plumes, pinned beneath a ripped paper skin.

Look 06 · Drip

Stripe, drip, and glitch.

Colour-bar lines, teal frames and rainbow runs from the brow.

Look 07 · Crown

Seven, whole.

A crown of hydrangea and daisies over cyan skin, and a butter-yellow dress.

The atelier · Why FACETTE

Skin is the first fabric. We cut it, drape it, dye it and decorate it, then photograph what a face can become in an afternoon.

Look 01 of 07

Gloss

Orange gel, poured and left to run. It looks like paint and wears like lacquer, and it dries to a mirror finish in nine minutes.

Pigment: Cadmium orange
Method: Brush & pipette
Chair time: 1 h 30

A woman's face with orange paint dripping from the forehead — Look 01Hover to inspect in HD

Look 02 of 07

Dots

Four hundred dots, placed one at a time with a fine pen. White first, then black, then the orange that holds the eye.

Pigment: Black, white, orange
Method: Fine-pen stipple
Chair time: 4 h

A face covered in black, white and orange dots — Look 02Hover to inspect in HD

Look 03 of 07

Bloom

Blue and yellow blocks, edged in tape and softened with real flowers: freesia, anemone and a single pink dahlia.

Pigment: Ultramarine, lemon
Method: Taped blocks, bloom set
Chair time: 3 h

A face painted in blue and yellow blocks with flowers on the cheek and brow — Look 03Hover to inspect in HD

Look 04 of 07

Cyan

One colour, head to toe, with orange frames and gerbera lenses. The simplest look in the suite and the hardest to get even.

Pigment: Process cyan
Method: Airbrush, three coats
Chair time: 5 h

A woman with cyan skin wearing orange glasses with gerbera daisies for lenses — Look 04Hover to inspect in HD

Look 05 of 07

Plume

A paper skin torn back to show feathers: peacock, pheasant and guinea fowl, pinned one barb at a time.

Material: Feather, paper, pigment
Method: Pinned plumes
Chair time: 6 h

A cyan face with colourful feathers coming through torn white paper on a dark ground — Look 05Hover to inspect in HD

Look 06 of 07

Drip

Colour-bar stripes, teal frames and rainbow runs from the brow, shot against white so every line reads.

Pigment: Six-colour ink set
Method: Pipette runs, tape lines
Chair time: 3 h 30

A woman in teal sunglasses and feathers with rainbow paint running down her face against a white striped background — Look 06Hover to inspect in HD

Look 07 of 07

Crown

Hydrangea, gerbera and daisies in a crown nearly the height of the face, over cyan skin and a butter-yellow dress.

Material: Fresh blooms, silk
Method: Wired crown
Chair time: 7 h

A cyan-skinned model wearing a tall crown of hydrangea and daisies and a puff-sleeve yellow dress on a grey ground — Look 07Hover to inspect in HD

Before · After

First look, last look

Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys, to wipe from the first pour of orange to the finished crown.

The finished look: a crown of blooms over cyan skin

The first look: orange paint dripping over a bare face

Look 01Look 07

Close up

Six details from the film →

Orange gel running down a forehead — The pour01

Black, white and orange dots over a face — The dots02

Pink and lilac flowers set on blue and yellow paint — The bloom03

Peacock feathers through torn paper on cyan skin — The plume04

Teal sunglasses and rainbow drips against stripes — The drip05

A crown of hydrangea and daisies — The crown06