Pearly: Spoilt Beauty Shoot

My latest beauty shoot, Spoilt Beauty, describes how beauty is everywhere and not necessarily aesthetic. For me beauty is a feeling which we are unable to describe, a mystery, it's nice to have this secret in life, we don't know everything as much as we try! :)

The first 'Unseen Beauty', is based on the creative beauty inside all of us, the inner child that likes to play coming out but is trapped/unseen when adulthood comes and sadly the child might die. The inspiration I took were from Miro's 'Woman Encircled by the flight of a Bird' for the eyes and lips (below), and the tears were based around his 'May 1968' painting.

Woman Encircled by the flight of a Bird

eyes

lips

May 1968

I love Miro's work and surrealism, the 'Woman Encircled' painting reminds me of play and when we're younger it doesn't matter where we draw things , there are no rules, if an eye is here and lips are here and a bird here it's OK! The 'May 1968' is based on the student protests that were happening in 1968, my own protest is that of the inner child wanting to let out creative beauty.

The second, 'Beauty Is..' is inspired by one of my favorite photographers, Guy Boardin. The shot represents that beauty is not just seen, the eye on the lips and the text on the nails, 'BEAUTY IS' represent seeing beauty in words

The third, 'Trapped Beauty' shows the beauty inside us not being allowed to be released for various reasons and we become frustrated and imprisoned within ourselves, the mask makeup was inspired by Hannibal Lecter