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Like my packaging design, I wanted to really create a fantasy that wove in many details – the primary thread being inspired by things, patterns, and eras that feel familiar, yet are juxtaposed in a surreal way that is beautiful and immersive.” For me, this collection was an opportunity to tell a more complete narrative, through illustration, than we sometimes get to tell on the small Tokyo Milk bottles. I see the fish as the guardians of this realm, a realm overseen by the Mermaid Queen…You spend a lot of time with these patterns as they come into being, so the worlds begin to tell quite detailed stories. I loved the idea of the romance of the secret island and the underwater kingdom of protected mermaids. In an interview with Sew4Home, Elena states, “I would say that this collection for me was inspired by the magical possibility of what could happen in the vast world hidden below the surface. This new medium allowed her to create what may be her most detailed and inspired patterns. More information on Bei’s work can be found in the Makeup Museum’s feature on the Sugarpill collab.įor her summer 2017 collection, entitled Neptune and the Mermaid, Tokyo Milk founder Margot Elena ventured into designing fabrics in addition to bath and body products. I also love their aesthetic – demure, flowing hair, and beautiful curves,” she says. “I love mermaids – I could go on about this forever but in short I love that they are fantasies, representations of women, and total femme fatales. The artist’s fascination with mermaids comes from their legendary powers of seduction. Her overtly girly figures adhere somewhat to a traditional pin-up aesthetic, but their curvy silhouettes and pointy, weapon-like eyelashes are Bei’s declaration of female strength. Influenced by her Chinese upbringing and the Japanese superflat and kawaii movements, Bei creates ultra-feminine yet assertive women. Bei is a self-described “cartoon mer-dashian” who focuses on body positivity. Both the shade, an opaque cool pink with gold sparkle and the name, Trinket, perfectly aligned with the mermaid theme. Like fellow indie brands KG Beauty, Saucebox and Bitter Lace Beauty, Sugarpill stayed ahead of the mermaid makeup curve by releasing a liquid lip color in limited-edition packaging featuring a mermaid illustration by Australia-based artist Bei Badgirl in early 2016. This was more like the Irish selkie or the Greek siren: a spirit whose only job is to tempt, destroy, and feast on the weakness of men.” “In a sense, Simone Rocha brought the ultimate mermaid makeup-but not the iridescent girl crush of Splash.

We took a red metallic foil on others, and a pink one, you'd say it's like one of her headbands, but for your eyes.' Faran Krentcil, writing for Elle, remarks that the striking effect recalls the beautiful but deadly allure of mermaids described in traditional folktales and myths.

So we took a flat black foil, a little thicker than you'd think, on some girls. 'To reference the ways Simone uses jewels and headbands and all that. 'We wanted to make almost another accessory on the lids,' de Kluyver said.

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Makeup artist Thomas de Kluyver, Global Makeup Artist for Gucci, was inspired by the invigorating sensation on one’s skin “when you go swimming in the cold ocean, and you put your head all the way under.' Lips and cheeks were left bare, but pieces of unevenly shaped foil were added to the eyes for an unexpected, otherworldly burst of metallic sheen. All three portrayals uphold conventional beauty standards, especially the notion of “natural” beauty whereby women (and mermaids, by extension) are expected to have clear skin, long flowing hair, sparkling eyes, and a glowing, youthful complexion yet not appear to be wearing much makeup. In mermaid form Scylla displays a mimimal look however, it is used as a weapon, hiding her true self in order to lure men to their gruesome deaths. Unlike Madison and Ryn, Killer Mermaid’s Scylla switches between classically beautiful mermaid and hideous monster rather than mermaid/human. Their lack of noticeable face makeup when on land points to a more realistic presentation of mermaids in that makeup isn’t used to convey their magical or transformational abilities, but to show them as true creatures of the ocean for whom makeup, at most, is just another human curiosity. Madison and Ryn, the mermaids in the film Splash and Freeform TV’s Siren are for the most part shown bare-faced, with just a hint of eye definition.

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