Meet Jessie Edelstein, the queer artist whose “digital avatar allows me the freedom to visually express myself in a way that isn't possible yet with my human form,” as we talk about all things music, guilty pleasures and life living on the URL.

From initially studying make-up as a laugh, Jayde Coxon is the beauty artist serving cheap lewks in a notoriously expensive industry. From designs inspired by motorcycle decals to out-of-this-world bleached eyebrows and heavy liner, we speak to the young creative on all things make-up and style.

Instantly recognisable for their iconic ‘Swipe for Wipe’ beauty images, make-up artist and self-professed drag clown Bo Quinn is the bold, colourful and futuristic creative that we all need right about now. And with a growing fan base, it looks like everyone else feels the same way too.

Hailing from America’s heartland, Ave is the 22-year-old’s make-up artist whose signature drag traverses every notable reference of the last century – tracking through Jean Cocteau’s hallucinatory art of the ‘30s; to 1950s old Hollywood glamour; ‘70s psychedelia; a quick pit-stop at the 1980s heavy metal bands, before landing in the present day with an added flourish of facial hair.

Twenty-year-old Anya Tisdale takes the cake for her make-up artistry. In a bid to reclaim the term ‘cakeface’, the emerging make-up artist flips the definition on its delicious head in this culinary-inspired project.

Changing your hair can be an identity forming experience, and for hair artist and stylist John Allan, the strands do all the talking. With each head a canvas for experimentation, pushing the boundaries to create more defiant ways as to how we perceive the hair on our very heads, Allan boasts a repertoire of clients from Mowalola to Beabadoobee.

“The fundamental of human flourishing is to practice the art of non-conformity and self-contemplation,” writes make-up artist, David Gillers. With an aesthetic self-described as ‘ugly beauty’, it seems more apt to credit his electric employment of colour and movement as a challenge to the very existence of stereotypical ‘beauty’ at all.

Alice Dodds doesn’t paint within the lines. The much-lauded anti-conformist make-up artist, with less than two years under her belt (half of which has been spent in perpetual quarantine), already counts several publications and fashion designer, Adam Jones, as her clients.

When the meaning of dress is in such a state of flux, where do we go to next? Teeth. Think about it, your pearly whites are on show for every man and his child screaming in the background, which makes sense for the rising cult of tooth jewels making waves on Instagram.

From a shining and majestic gold to an ocean green-cum-deep-space purple, Conor Clinch’s images capture a beauty of colour and body. Our only thought: we’re glad we didn’t have to clean up the washed-off body paint in the bathroom afterwards.

Shot in lockdown 3.0 (is that where we’re up to?), Clinch captures boyfriend, model and disability-advocate Ryan Zaman, in a series of surrealistic images that blur preconceived gender norms through a circus-inspired multi-colour prism.