Pigment pushed to the absolute edge. This is make-up as armour.
The face is not a canvas to be corrected. It is a battlefield.
War Paint was born from a single question: what happens when you stop trying to look beautiful and start trying to look dangerous? The answer is in every stroke — deliberate, aggressive, unapologetic.
We worked with raw pigments, industrial textures, and techniques borrowed from theatre, body painting, and the underground club scene. Nothing from the beauty counter. Nothing safe.
The result is a face that commands the room before a word is spoken. That stops traffic. That makes people uncomfortable in the best possible way.
This is not make-up. This is war paint. And you are the warrior.
CREDITS
MAKE-UP ARTIST
Studio INFÊCTED
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Jimmy Bollaerts
PHOTOGRAPHER
Studio INFÊCTED
MODEL
INFÊCTED Collective