The Art of Makeup

My look is inspired by Salvador Dali’s famous painting “The Persistence of Memory” (or what I typed into Google to find a reference picture - “The Melting Clocks”). I wanted to signify how time passes through daytime, sunset and eventually into night. Initially I just thought that this would be a good way to push myself artistically as I don’t tend to venture much into body painting, but as I was adding the intricate details on to the clock-eyeliner (I definitely think that’s going to become my everyday look) I thought that it could also be symbolic of time slowly melting away from us during this pandemic.

By Naomi Howell. Naomi occupies most of her time creating content for her social media platforms, which you can follow She manages the make-up department at a popular alternative clothing store in London, as well as doing freelance work in the education sector. On top of this Naomi loves to sing, dance, cook and co-hosts not one but two podcasts which you can find here and here.

Night-time/Daytime

There’s this viral video that circulated the internet maybe ten years ago now that featured funny dialogue played over footage of wild animals. There’s this bird in the video that hides under his wings and pops his head back out occasionally and the audio is this silly voice saying ‘nighttime, daytime’ as he does this over and over again. So for the past ten years, my family will periodically have a week or two every couple months where we all remember that video and quote that specific phrase. My family is currently in one of these periods and when I was

By Alexa Gordon. Lex Gordon is an Aries and also a Canadian university student. She grew up near the city but on a farm. This means that her personality is a wonderful mix of pretentious city slicker and down-to-earth farm girl. The best description she has ever heard for who she is was from Dolly Parton, a Backwoods Barbie. She is obsessed with the art of makeup as it provides a new and fun medium to create and tell stories with. You can find more of her work on her Instagram.