Mimi Choi with normal makeup.
Makeup is
usually used for slightly adjusting the everyday look but some actually realize
its true potential. Mimi Choi from Vancouver, Canada is one of them. She is a
31-year-old makeup artist who creates intense hyperreal optical illusions, and
her amazing work has earned Mimi 274,000 followers on Instagram.
Before
discovering makeup art, Mimi trained as a teacher and worked in a pre-school
for three years. "I felt like my creativity was suppressed. I enjoyed
teaching but I wasn't completely happy," she said. "I needed a new
challenge." After leaving the classroom, she started experimenting with
her makeup brushes at home.
"I've
always been arty and had done bridal makeup before, which people really liked.
I'd not done anything as crazy as the work I do now, though." Enrolling at
a local beauty college really helped Mimi to take her skills to new heights.
But things really took off when Halloween was just around the corner. "I
wanted to do something different for October 31, so I had a look on Instagram
and found a photo of a woman, who looked like her face had cracked."
"I'd never
tried any kind of crazy make-up on myself, but I just got out my black and
white eyeliner and gave it a go." And the rest is history.
Choi creates
her mind-blowing work through masterfully understanding perspective, creating
three dimensionality on a flat surface. She manipulates makeup like an artist
uses his paint and places shadows onto her body to make her skin either pop out
or recede back into the body.
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Mimi Choi transformed:
Here she has opened her eyes
so you can see it's not photoshopped:
And some other transformations from
the slightly to the totally bizarre,
not necessarily in that order:
