Alex Box is a fine artist and visionary before a makeup artist. The woman uses the visage as a canvas to which she applies layers of non-conforming techniques which result in mind blowing avant-garde face paintings. Here are a few stills I pulled from her first, new, self-titled book shot by Rankin. You can also hear an exclusive interview with Jo Jones for The Guardian below. Pure genius! Purchase book here.
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November 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Wild! ..and I just discovered eyeshadow primer.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Body art= tattoos, wearable are = clothes, body/make up art = ???. Hell art rules , music follows(poetry), fashion copies. time to get those ed choices off the shelves and stop mediocity. Vogue nov dissed keith herring. How about some original thought, rather than copy, copy, copy…….
December 4th, 2009 at 12:39 am
wow! What a great makeup! It is art.
Amazing to watch how the model changes. I love the final result, but it looks like Box doesn’t have a clear image before as orange eyebrows were lost, blue eye shadows as well…
January 8th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I’ve been doing Make-up now for over 13 yrs and still going in Fashion, film and television. All I can say is WOW!
Sure Kevyn Aucoin used his Make-up palette to transform and Pat McGrath innovated the use of 3D effects into her Make-ups back in the 90’s, but Alex Box has taken this to a WHOLE new level.
Sure as Make-up Artists we use a little bit of inspiration from other artists into our own style. For me, I see a little bit of Kevyn and Pat’s inspiration in Alex’s style, and then she decides to push that envelope into new areas of artistic creativity. Her use of colours and materials, her style of utilizing fine lines in geometric patterns… Very unconventional and refreshing.
Seeing her images and video tutorials, I am awe inspired and left in wonderment saying phrases like: “Wow, beautiful, stunning, cool, nice, why didn’t I think of that?” And the odd, “I’ve done that, why didn’t my agent/booker notice that before?” Then again as we ALL know, Editorial Fashion is all about forecast timing.
Regardless, I am very much inspired with Alex Box’s work, and learning new things even with 13+ years in the industry.