With enthusiasm and inventiveness, numerous makeup artists have decided to forego conventional materials to explore bolder venues and techniques. From aesthetic edible artwork to pieces influenced by flowers, these vanguard manifestations exhibit an inventive and innovative way to deal with artistic workmanship. As of late, this enthusiasm has appeared in the domain of body art, with optical figment cosmetics at its interesting front line. Utilizing faces as a blank canvas, these cosmetics experts utilize strategies to create some impressive works of art that will make you doubt what you’re seeing and question everything you knew about reality. From unusual reality-defying contortions to camouflage you have to see to believe, these cosmetics showstoppers exhibit the individual specialists’ stunning aptitudes. Check out these amazing selections of optical illusion art and their talented artists. They’ll totally blow your mind.Now here’s an optical illusion we can sink our teeth into. Without even using Photoshop, Zhao can use her artistic makeup talent to bring out the inner wolf inside of someone.
Her artistic illusion is so out there that you’ll be wondering how she managed to move one eye down without digital manipulation. Clearly, she’s a champion at her own game.
After graduating from the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Mushashino Art University in 2016, she continued to explore and push her body painting techniques to a whole new level.
Just look at the definition of her artwork! It literally looks like her face has cracked open a window into the universe. Have you ever seen anything that looks so spaced out like this in your life?
The 31-year-old Vancouver-based artist isn’t a serial killer, but she uses her artwork and talent like a scalpel to create the illusion that you’re seeing a face sliced up like some pumpkin carving gone wrong.
It takes her up to five hours to create an awesome optical illusion like this one and with the help of black eyeliner and other elements, she can creative negative space to make it seem like her face is split open.
Using a Make Up Forever ink eyeliner, some white kohl liner, and matte eyeshadow, Choi managed to contour her way into giving off the illusion that snake lips are a real thing, and it’s perfect for Halloween.
She has posted on Instagram that she has struggled with panic attacks and anxiety, both of which have been eased by coming up with these expressive works of art that show how sliced up she feels on the inside.
She wanted something a bit more challenging, which is how she started experimenting with makeup art in her parents’ restroom. Before long, her highlighting and contouring led to artwork like this, which is so sliced up!
The 34-year-old UK makeup artist was actually inspired to create awesome faces like this one after she had to attend a last-minute Halloween party in London in 2015. Since then, her skull art has continued to change and grow.
Aside from being English, she also has Mexican roots, and as we all know, the Day of the Dead celebration has plenty of skulls and skeletons, which inspired her artwork, like this neon style skull work.
From makeup to crystals, glitter, and spikes, the sky is the limit when it comes to creating the very coolest skull inspired looks you’ve ever seen. Never have we ever imagined that skulls could look this beautiful.
Since creating her Instagram page, she’s proven to her followers that she can incorporate different themes to her skull motif, even swans.
Don’t ask her to waste time creating the illusion of luscious lips or long eyelashes, because she’s more into the kind of art that will bend reality and blow your mind.
It would probably make anyone dizzy to stare at Yoon looking like this for too long. Can you spot which of those two pairs of eyes happens to be the real ones? Neither could we, and we doubt Yoon will tell us.
She’s got looks, talent, and magnificent skills to make her face look like that without Photoshop. We’ll bet there’d be quite a few people out there worrying that they might be having a stroke if they saw her.
She’s like a chameleon or a shapeshifting liquid metal Terminator blending into that fabric pattern. Her creations are beyond stunning and it’s clear that she has a lot of fun blending herself into scenes like this one.
When it comes to optical makeup art, Mirjana Kika Milosevic knows everything there is to know on the inside and out. No wonder she’s managed to compete in the National NYX Face Awards and acquired internet fame on Instagram.
You simply won’t believe your eyes. Her work is cool and a bit creepy all at the same time. You can see more of her work on Instagram page @kikastudio to see why her 167,000 followers think she’s amazing.
Her makeup looks are horrifying works of art, which makes total sense since Mirjana has an insane amount of talent. Some of the looks make you wonder how she managed not to use digital manipulation.
She’s got her eyes on you, and we do mean all of them. Her work is truly the stuff of nightmares. Just one look and you’ll never be able to get a wink of sleep ever again.
How she managed to create negative space to mask her entire head is beyond our understanding. But it’s clear that Mirjana’s paintbrush makes Harry Potter’s wand look like a stick without magic.
