Smeared Lips

29 May

Emerging in beauty is the concept of smeared lips, advocating for the beautiful ugly, lipstick after a kiss, the end of a night out or the makeup of a performer.

This is an interesting trend as it defies beauty norms and can be unsettling to the viewer. With leading makeup artists such as Isamaya French paving the way for seeing the face as a canvas for texture, pattern, lines and colour a new generation of artists are experimenting and questioning our beauty perceptions.

By Geraldine Wharry | Research and concept contribution: Maud Flamand

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Geraldine Wharry

Geraldine Wharry is one of the world's leading Futurist specialising in Strategic Foresight, Regenerative Leadership, Speculative Design and Futures Literacy for the creative industries and Fashion.

Trusted for her futures leadership by organisations ranging from Nike, Seymour Powell, Samsung to Christian Dior, Geraldine’s strategic insights have been applied across fashion, beauty, technology, sustainability, culture, media, gaming, the arts, health, travel and industrial design. Geraldine helps partners envision bold futures with forward-thinking and emergent insights and strategies while leveraging creative, systemic and environmental imperatives.

Geraldine is also a writer, regular speaker on stages ranging from SXSW to the Adidas global headquarters and lecturer at leading universities. As a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a member of the United Nations ' Conscious Fashion & Lifestyle network, Geraldine Wharry's mission is to inspire leaders, industries and people to enact visionary futures, for the greater good of the people and planet.

http://www.geraldinewharry.com/

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