Vogue speaks to the artist behind Doja Cat’s mesmerising makeup transformations

When makeup artist Laurel Charleston first met Doja Cat, it was, like several trendy superstar connection, thanks to expertise. “We linked on social media, and the first time we labored collectively was for New York Fashion Week this 12 months,” says Charleston. “She requested me to paint her, and we got here by with that white, webbed makeup artwork painted throughout her head!” The look was the trippy, swirling second the “Woman” singer wore for Vogue World’s street-fair-meets-runway occasion, and it set the stage for an much more daring week in the City of Lights—with Charleston enjoying the position of a effective artist. Instagram contentThis content material may also be considered on the website it originates from.“Each look we put collectively was a deeply creative and delightful collaboration between her, myself, and her stylist, Brett Alan Nelson,” says Charleston, who channeled inspiration from every trend look. Musing upon conceptual sources isn’t unfamiliar territory for her. Charleston began out recreating effective artwork work utilizing cosmetics as a medium. “I ended up educating myself totally different portray types, strategies, and methods to specific myself with makeup,” she says. After shifting to New York in 2019 to work as an orchestra conductor, Charleston began experimenting with different Brooklyn makeup artists like Nathan Sweet, Brian Vu, and Patrick Church for take a look at shoots and initiatives. “It was additionally at this identical time that I began my journey, residing life as a transgender individual,” she remembers. “The classical music world is (nonetheless) sadly riddled with a whole lot of normative gender beliefs and transphobia, a profession as a profitable, wholesome, and out transgender conductor was going to be more durable than I believed. But as the classical world pushed me away, the makeup world embraced me with open arms!” 

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