Middle pic by Linda Mason (more to come!) P.S. I still have the bleached panel in my hair. You just can’t see it here. Every once in awhile, one feels an urge to get painted all over your face and neck. Call it recreational transformation (my boss…

You’d think if you walk around New York with blue, silver, pink and purple paint on your face, people would take notice. Not exactly. On the way to work, a woman said to me, “I like your haircut!”, which seems like a lot of effort, to ignore the o…

Like that air hockey-basketball-foosball table. 3-in-1 fun. After all this crazy makeup, I feel like my regular face is so boring! This time, Linda used me for a lesson in editorial makeup. The students wanted to experiment with gold, and I wanted…

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact. — A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.I. I lust for makeup. I love how it can transform and fool. I love how colors are named the most bewitching, visceral words in the dictionary. A…