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Julia Horner | @claropsyche
Tennessee native Julia Horner is a true Instagram beauty sensation. Scrolling through her feed is something like looking through a kaleidoscope- you’ll be hit with intricate brush strokes in every colour of the rainbow. She’s known for finely painting slithering snakes around the eyes, or mimicking the unmistakable looks of Ziggy Stardust or Grace Jones. Her beauty looks could be described as a modern twist on glam rock beauty with a dash of anime for good measure.
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Fecal Matter | @matieresfecales
Fecal Matter is not your everyday beauty account. Indeed, the collective’s Instagram name is French for fecal matter, a bold, if not off-putting, moniker. Meant to weed out those would follow their account passively, the duo behind Fecal Matter means to collect followers who truly respect their craft, in spite of the name. Their Instagram feed features sci-fi inspired looks reminiscent of the alien/human character from the movie Splice. It seems the team doesn’t need a shocking name at all, these looks will be turning heads all on their own.
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Sad Salvia |@sadsalvia
Sad Salvia is a prime example of what you could call alternative beauty. Her feed features primarily pierced and dreadlocked models, those you might stumble upon at a really good rave. She accentuates her model’s features with a burnt red smudged lip or airbrush-painted faces as if she were inspired by sidewalk festival street art. These are looks that can be worn well into the following day – or perhaps for the duration of a weekend-long rave.
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Maren Bailey | @teratology
Maren Bailey is the make-up artist behind Teratology, a word referring to the study of physical abnormalities and the mythology of monsters. It’s fitting then that her approach to beauty is anything but ordinary. She works with layers of finely detailed, 3-D printed paper to create her avant-garde aesthetic. She told Dazed and Confused her aesthetic is “strange, yet inviting”, and we couldn’t agree more.