baby doll face
series : pieces 1-10
An intentional visual series inspired by vintage beauty ads.
Experimenting with form and contrast, using monochromatic ballpoint ink blue and intensity to portray shape.
baby doll face by cailin alcock
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An intentional visual series inspired by vintage beauty ads.
Experimenting with form and contrast, using monochromatic ballpoint ink blue and intensity to portray shape.
Makeup ads from the early 20th century reflected evolving beauty standards and marketing trends. Early advertisements featured hand-drawn illustrations influenced by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, showcasing elegance and sophistication. To enhance credibility, many brands incorporated scientific claims, reinforcing the idea that beauty could be achieved through innovation.
During wartime, makeup was promoted as a patriotic duty, encouraging women to maintain their appearance as a morale booster. In the post-war era, self-expression became a growing theme, with ads shifting towards individuality, presenting makeup as a tool for personal style rather than just conformity to societal ideals.
The possibilities for self-expression are boundless. In the vast landscape of modern media and influence, inspiration continuously intertwines, giving rise to genres of sub-genres of sub-genres.
Inspired by the exaggerated elegance of mid-century makeup ads, these designs strip away the warmth and commercial polish, leaving behind something almost spectral. Detached, post-human masks projected onto a sterile surface—the idealized vision of artificial beauty.
Incestuously inspired, yet just distinct enough to validate a second glance of scrutiny. Abstract forms, perfectly symmetrical, unattainable. A reflection of beauty’s endless, obsessive recursion. Familiar, yet hurtling toward something alien, no longer bound by flesh.
This mesh of organic and synthetic, once painted and airbrushed, is now filtered, rendered, and surgically perfected. An echo of something real, now only a cold, metallic, hollow impression.