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    Miart art fair 2025
    April 4th, 2025. Milan, Italy. Maya Hottarek, Pleasures. MIART Fair. One of the most prestigious international annual art fair of classic and contemporary art, presenting artworks of 180 Galleries from 31 countries. (Piero Oliosi/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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  • Singer celebrates record store day face painting album covers onto her face, London, UK, Apr 2014
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    Singer celebrates record store day face painting album covers onto her face, London, UK, Apr 2014
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    Natalie Sharp with Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures album cover painted on face
    Singer Celebrates Record Store Day Face Painting Album Covers Onto Her Face
    A woman has celebrated her favourite albums - by painting them on her face.

    Make up artist and singer Natalie Sharp wanted to mark the recent national Record Store Day, so used her skills to reproduce a variety of Vinyl record covers on her own face.

    London-based Natalie, 32, works as a make-up artist by day and performs in her band Lone Taxidermist by night.

    Based in Hackney, her make-up works sees her involved in body painting, special effects and theatrical and commercial makeup.

    The artist, originally from Cumbria, said: "I wanted to do something special for record store day this year because for as long as I can remember I have always been face painting kids as Easter bunnies over the Easter holidays.

    "I was having a bit of a rant on Facebook about having to work at the weekend and a friend suggested I paint myself as a piece of Vinyl."

    Taken with the idea, Natalie set to work and painted eight memorable albums onto her own face, including artists such as Talking Heads album 'Remain in Light, Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' and Kraftwerk's Autobahn album.

    "Originally I planned to do 10 faces some of which got vetoed for being too difficult. The first face I did, which was Grizzly Bears' Veckatimest album, took me nearly 7 hours and after that I started to seriously reconsider the idea," she says.

    Natalie spent three days carefully re-creating the vinyl artworks, working completely free hand with no stencil tracings, and relying onl...
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