NIGHT TRAVEL
These stunning “trompe-l’oeil”, highlight the potential of body art to liberate us from our bodies and open the doors to nocturnal journeys.
ACADEMY EXHIBITION
Discover the MAKE UP FOR EVER ACADEMY exhibition. Each year, our talented students showcase their incredible creativity through a face and body exhibition.
EXPLORE DREAMLAND
GRAPHIC FACES
Just like a mask, sleep lays our daydreams on our faces enabling us to transform into what we want at night.
MONOCHROME SLEEP
In these creations we’re plunged into a universe composed of black and white. This contrasted world highlights the duality of our subconscious.
BETWEEN WORLDS
In our dreams we can aspire to anything we want. When we start waking up, reality catches up with us but our mind continues to dream on.
STORY OF OUR ART
Since the creation of MAKE UP FOR EVER in 1984 by Dany Sanz, we have considered makeup as an art. In 2022, the students of the MAKE UP FOR EVER ACADEMY showcased their talent and their strong link to nature with a worldwide exhibition with 30 artworks entitled “Nature Reconnection”.
Following it’s huge success, we have the pleasure to present a new exhibition in 2023: “Dreamland”. This exhibition draws its inspiration from a dreamlike universe and illustrates the connection between dreams and reality, through 30 Body and Face Art creations. These “artworks in movement” invite us to experience fantasies and illusions in a bewitching, sometimes surreal world. Combining painter’s gestures and Makeup Artist’s techniques, our students draw on their dreams, an inexhaustible source of inspiration, to sublimate makeup in color or black and white.
This year again, we invite you to live an artistic experience by immersing yourself in these original works of Face & Body Art. Dreamland reveals the aspirations of these young creators who share their most personal desires with us.
SARAH URBANO
The Neon Demon
"Inspired by the film, I wanted to create the Neon Demon with a hypnotic effect using a neon light. This intriguing character leaves room for dreams."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
MARIE-AUDE VIENNE & TIPHANIE CYCUMAR
"It is an abstract and architectural vision, but also a canvas open to all interpretations. This work is the result of hours of reflection, and above all, of collaboration."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
YINI GAO
Marais
"In love with painting, I tried to reproduce on the body the magnificent vitality that flows in the world."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
LAURA HERNANDEZ
Shades of blue
"By multiplying a body with a gradient of blues, I wanted to represent the infinite shades of the soul."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
CÉLINE LUCCACIO
Blur
"Darkness, light, night life. I wanted my dream to capture the beauty of night lights of a city in motion."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
MAHÉLIA HUGEL
Red Swirl
"The light, the contrasts, the colors, the shadows... I created an abstract hypnotic intertwining that one could dive into and ultimately get lost in."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
LUCILE RACHEL
Sweet Intoxication
"I wanted to represent the intimacy that appears when two people are alone together in the world. When our senses metamorphose, we become one unique being."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
NORA AJDINI
Icandescent
"My goal? To get people to reflect on the warmth of life that can be enclosed in a shell and therefore sometimes appear cold and empty to the outside."
Photographer: Pieter De Smedt-Jans
NOÉMIE LEVEXIER
J-Line
"This work is a testament to persistence. The line dividing the face is our goal, while the round lines represent the obstacles that lie along the path of our life."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
MARINE GANCI
The Chain Warrior’s purity
"Through the combination of jewelry and make-up, I wanted to highlight the softness that lies behind every appearance, no matter how masculine."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
ANAÏS ISIK
Deconstructed City
"This make-up represents the coexistence of modern and old-fashioned elements by taking inspiration from both big cities and my grandmother's wallpaper."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
LOLA MEUNIER
Smiling Patches
"My inspiration was the joy of life and ecstasy. By highlighting certain parts of the face, the smile is accentuated. It is a token of happiness."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
SOLENE ARMANGE
Duality
"The two colors structure the face in different ways, so much so that you could see two people in the same portrait."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
YUEYUE XU
Future Warrior
"To create this futuristic atmosphere, I tried to explore new materials like reflective pigments. Innovation is at the center of my work."
Photographer: Jing Ruan
JIAYUE CHEN
Portrait
"Each person has their own facial structure. I wanted to deconstruct the model's face to create this unique portrait."
Photographer: Jing Ruan
CHARLOTTE SCHNEIDER
Fine Lines
"I wanted to create a thought-provoking work that invites you to dream beyond just make-up."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
ALEXANDRA CHAIX
Infusion
"I imagined a flower to illustrate delicacy. It gently diffuses in water like a drop of ink in liquid."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
CAROLINE BEL
Frozen in Time
"After trying many techniques, it is by confronting the fabric’s flexibility and the bust’s rigidity that I finally succeeded in freezing beauty in time."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
YIZHU LU
Star Trail
"The lines represent a trail of stardust on the body. All stars leave trails in space, they attract each other but rarely cross paths."
Photographer: Jing Ruan
LISA BONNEAU
Evanescence
"Dreams free us from reality which can be suffocating, with this make-up I wanted to represent this feeling of liberation."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
CHUNYU HE
Symbiosis
"I wanted to embody the intimate connection between different models, a living and an artificial one. It's a kind of symbiosis between man and the unknown."
Photographer: Jing Ruan
ALEXANDRE CROISSIEZ
Nothing. Everything. At the same time.
"Just like Frank Gehry, I appreciate the strange, the unconventional. I wanted to bring a modern edge to my creation."
Photographer: Pieter De Smedt-Jans
BEATRICE CHAUBERT
Dimensional Travel
"Creation is an eternal renewal, drawing its source from the past. This futuristic silhouette projects us towards new artistic perspectives."
Photographer: Pieter De Smedt-Jans
NINA GROS
Conflicting Shades
"By letting the textures work on the skin, the final result is full of contrasting shades. It represents the burden of physical standards imposed by our society."
Photographer: Pieter De Smedt-Jans
CINDY BIRON
The Woman with Blue Hair
"My inspiration was Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress. I wanted to create a minimalist, yet bright color palette."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
LI LIU
The Perfect Present
"Taking inspiration from my favorite flowers, Bromeliads, I used a palette of reds and greens to illustrate vitality."
Photographer: Crown Wang
JIONGJIN PAN
Tears
"True art comes from passion, sometimes also from tears. When I created this work, I was overwhelmed by my emotions."
Photographer: Crown Wang
LOLA DUBAR
Golden Diva
"She is free of any artifice with her sleek and modern make-up. We feel hypnotized by her charisma and her gaze."
Photographer: Clovis Lalanne
SIJIN LU
Metamorphosis
"I wanted to transform and sublimate my model through make-up, like when the caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly."
Photographer: Alexandra Babonneau
LALAI
Peace
"I wanted to illustrate peace and inclusion, symbolized by color, like on the LGBTQ+ flag."
Photographer: Crown Wang
YALAN SHEN
Metaverse
"The future world is unknown, which is why people are obsessed and fascinated with dreaming about it."
Photographer: Jing Ruan