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Essentially when a woman makes up her face, she is performing a sexual act. Desmond Morris, anthropologist UK tv Channel 4 2000 She that paints her face, thinks of her tail. |
| A strange obsession, this desire I have had for so long, to meet a woman who 'even in public' has nails not coated with a more or less coloured liquid but truly painted. Jaques Henri Lartigue |
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[The video shows me] putting on make-up as part of my daily routine, as if I am painting a portrait of me. The face functions as both a mask and an expression of interior feeling. The lipstick is mightier than the sword. |
| Some of his first images of childhood, he says, "were of the women, some of them prostitutes, walking round with their beehive hairdos and high heels, wearing heavy make-up and looking so dreadfully cheap. Something about them just awakened something in me, and even to this day I find myself attracted to a certain kind of woman, a woman who is a tad overt in her sexiness, who knows her power over men. They're the kind of women I often paint." Jack Vettriano Interviewed by Lina Das |
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A painter of faces is an artist in his or her own right, deriving inspiration from fashion, fiction, paintings and the general climate of the time. In fact, a case could be made that cosmetics are one of the more popular sexual fetishes. |
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Anything other than a Nefertiti sweep of black liner, almost audibly thick mascara and pansticked-pale pout just isn't make-up. Hannah Betts The Times 2003 |
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Celebs who have reinvented themselves through a complete make-over, and other icons of the painted face include: Madonna, Jordan, Cher, Christine Aguilera, Beyoncé Knowles, Dolly Parton, Joan Collins, Gwen Stephani, Dusty Springfield, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Toya Wilcox, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner and a host of other 40s stars.
I admire the work of Kevyn Aucoin, Serge Lutens and Pascal Dangin. |
| 'For what was life, to the fashionable world, without theatre and artifice and, best of all, a frisson of mystery' London - the novel Edward Rutherford 1997 |
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Bibliography: Lipstick, Jessica Pallingston, Simon and Schuster 1999 try abebooks.co.uk |
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