Looking for a new beauty look to prepare for next year’s Record Store Day? Natalie Sharp has you covered. The London makeup artist decided to commemorate the day by painting eight album covers onto her face — a slightly delusional choice, she told The Quietus: “I stupidly thought I could knock these out in a day.” Each face, she says, took three to six hours, and was painted entirely freehand — no stencils.
Sharp’s musical masks, which we spotted on Laughing Squid, include Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, Remain in Light by the Talking Heads (this might be the coolest, as she incorporated her own actual eyeballs into the image), and Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear. Of Veckatimest, she says, “I cried after finishing grizzly bear, I thought it had broken me.” Fortunately, the emotional and physical pain of her art hasn’t deterred her from tossing around the idea of creating another set of face-albums on Facebook.
Click through the first set of albums in the gallery below, as we wait for her second one. And once you’re through, visit Natalie Sharp’s website to see the rest of her magnificent work.
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Screamadelic, Primal Scream
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Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division
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As the Crow Flies, The Advisory Circle
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Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear
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Try Out, Kas Product
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Autobahn, Kraftwerk
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Remain in Light, Talking Heads
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Everything!, Tones on Tail