Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga for me has always been a wonderful women when it comes to her confidence and unusual attitude to fashion and her ideal beauty. Her personal style is artistic and I am always amazed when I see she has re-worked her image into something even more eccentric.
In 2011 Gaga recreated her image again, but this time creating something that stunned the media. Rather than wearing a piece of distracting clothing, she instead went one step further and created the illusion under her skin which made her look as if she had cosmetic surgery to apply implants underneath her skin. Being a make-up artist it is obvious that it was created by having in fact no surgery, and that the horns were in fact prosthetic make-up.
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Let's hope it doesn't catch on! Lady Gaga sports bizarre flesh-coloured facial horns
She's known for pushing the envelope when it comes to clothes - but Lady Gaga is taking her look to a whole new level if her latest make-over is anything to go by.
The star appeared on Jay Leno's U.S. chat show last night with her face covered in flesh-coloured spikes that look like subdermal implants - the latest craze for people into extreme body modification in which metal shapes or even items of jewellery are implanted under the skin.
However, her spokesman told MailOnline 'no comment' when it came to whether the star had actually had them surgically implanted, or whether they were just convincing prosthetics.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1357258/Lady-Gaga-sports-bizarre-flesh-coloured-facial-horns-Jay-Leno.html#ixzz2lfoPCIgp
Shown in the image above is Gaga's implant like prosthetics applied to exaggerate the end of the bones in her body. When looking closely at the edges of the prosthetics, you can see where the wax make-up joins to her actual skin. I really like this idea created initially for the styling of her image as a pose to the standard idea of beauty.
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Orlan
Orlan (born Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne, Loire. She adopted the name Orlan in 1971. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. Orlan was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, for the 2006-2007 academic year. She sits on the board of administrators for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and is a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Cergy.
Although Orlan is best known for her work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s, she has not limited her work to a particular medium.
‘The Kiss of Saint Orlan’ is a series of multiple plastic surgery procedures that Orlan went through to portray the look of ideal beauty as suggested by the men of the 18th and 19th century who painted woman. The surgeons gave Orlan the chin of Botticelli’s Venus, the nose of Jean-Leon Gerome’s Psyche, the lips of Francoise Boucher’s Europer, the eyes of Diana from a 16th century French School of Fountainebleu painting and the forehead of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa.
I really like Orlan's artwork because of her unique streak which becomes obvious throughout each of her pieces. I find the way in which she creates her body image really relates to her artistic personally. Another person that I can relate to Orlan is Lady Gaga, and although there was conflict from Orlan to Lady Gaga for copyright issues, I think that Lady Gaga wasn't intentionally copying her look, but in fact taking inspiration like all real artists do.