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Woman Gives Up Teaching To Create Optical Illusions With Makeup, And It’s Messing With Our Minds
Makeup is usually used for slightly adjusting the everyday look but some actually realize its true potential. Mimi Choi from Vancouver, Canada is one of them. She is a 31-year-old makeup artist who creates intense hyperreal optical illusions, and her amazing work has earned Mimi 274,000 followers on Instagram.
Before discovering makeup art, Mimi trained as a teacher and worked in a pre-school for three years. "I felt like my creativity was suppressed. I enjoyed teaching but I wasn't completely happy," she said. "I needed a new challenge." After leaving the classroom, she started experimenting with her makeup brushes at home.
"I've always been arty and had done bridal makeup before, which people really liked. I'd not done anything as crazy as the work I do now, though." Enrolling at a local beauty college really helped Mimi to take her skills to new heights. But things really took off when Halloween was just around the corner. "I wanted to do something different for October 31, so I had a look on Instagram and found a photo of a woman, who looked like her face had cracked."
"I'd never tried any kind of crazy make-up on myself, but I just got out my black and white eyeliner and gave it a go." And the rest is history.
Choi creates her mind-blowing work through masterfully understanding perspective, creating three dimensionality on a flat surface. She manipulates makeup like an artist uses his paint and places shadows onto her body to make her skin either pop out or recede back into the body.
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Miriam L 8 years ago
That's creepy and more than a little gross, but as I look closely to see just how she made it all work, I am beyond impressed. Upvotes!
Anna Jordan 8 years ago
Agree!! Just think how she could use her talents for others!!
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Lori Wilson 8 years ago
Can't even tell where the hair actually stops and her real body begins!
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Viktė Džiaugytė 8 years ago
Watch carefully - she covered both sides of her face with dark paint, so optically she got this effect (acctually her face is a bit larger than it seems)
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Nafisa Tasnim 4 years ago
woww! how did she do that. I'd love to do makeup like her. This is another channel I frequently follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0DLUQoY5gs&t=8s
Terri Rowland 8 years ago
How can she make it look like the top of her head is going to one side away from the bottom jaw...very talented ❤😮
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Lisa Greene 8 years ago
That would be such an awesome piercing! If you didn't need to open your mouth!
porcupine 8 years ago
I want to know how she gets her skin to look like that. It is absolutely flawless.
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Charles Laster 8 years ago
Looks like a commercialmfor the latest iteration of American horror story!
Eve Gorena 8 years ago
I achieve this look too when I am trying to do a wing eyeliner, but it goes array when I keep trying to match one side to the other....it escalates quickly!!
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Amrit Rosell 8 years ago
Wow... You should do make up like this on people going to psychedelic festivals. :D
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Crystal Gordon 3 years ago
I love this! Only thing is,I wish it could look this way after moving out the white backdrop? Its beautiful still
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Daria B 8 years ago
Someone must have said something really REALLY stupid to make her roll her eyes like that....
Melody Lanzatella 8 years ago
She just read the Laura Loomer ancient tire slashing story.
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Mr. Bojangles 8 years ago
Some people have surgery done to split their tongues ... Mimi didn't stop there, she split her whole face!
Barb Alvarez 7 years ago
You must have said something hilarious cuz you're really cracking her up.
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Grace Mercier 8 years ago
It looks like someone painted her in watercolors and spilled some water
Luna Kittenwarrior 8 years ago
"On average, pretty women will melt at 100 degrees Fahrenheit."
Toby Jones 8 years ago
Wow, I've never seen anything like this before. I bet you have a blast in public.
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Philippa Denney 8 years ago
Or a Hollywood make-up artist's. I can see how she did all of them so far, but would never have thought of close to half of them!
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Melissa Margaret 8 years ago
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/saintsrow/images/5/56/Dcl_tat_genki_zombie.png/revision/latest?cb=20131105230617
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Luna Kittenwarrior 8 years ago
Don't get too addicted to gambling... or else this is who you'll become!
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Tolga IŞIKYILDIZ 8 years ago
It is like panoramic shoot accident or misusage of photoshop clone tool.
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Selma Hazinson 8 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vRwBR69os&lc=z23ednx5yqq0dtvhb04t1aokgk53ip3fjzckc20bgwzmrk0h00410
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Neve von C 8 years ago
whahahahah! that is the first thing that crossed my mind too! i want that ring. my preciousssssss
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Jo Barnett 8 years ago
I'm going in for hand surgery soon and this doesn't give me a warm fuzzy about it...LOL!
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Shannan Paige 8 years ago
If I forget to take off my makeup and sleep on my face, I wake up like this. lol
Danielle Bregoli 8 years ago
it looks like how i imagine i would look like if i jumped out of a moving car haaha
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Terri Rowland 8 years ago
These must cost a fortune in makeup to do, they're amazing to look at and would be incredible to wear for a party 🎉 💝 💃🏽 🎈
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Sorai Jordan 8 years ago
someone wrote something about nightmares in the comments before this pic, but I think... this pic here is worst. worst, but best. very nicely done
Helene Signe Lund Bengtsson 8 years ago
No. This is where it stops. Pls stop giving me nightmares. Goodbye cruel world
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Luna Kittenwarrior 8 years ago
This is how I see everyone who won't shut up about how much they love school.
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Luna Kittenwarrior 8 years ago
Forget my last comment: THIS looks like the girl from the opening scene of Botched.
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Jeannie Carle 8 years ago
How I looked after a motorcycle accident 50 years ago. This woman is SO talented
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Hillary Rossell 8 years ago
If I were her, I'd go out in public and act as if nothing were unusual.
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Francis Lyons 8 years ago
You will start to see peeps with permanent tatts in this style now...
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ispeak catanese 8 years ago
Ok, what made me think Colorless Eyes Girl was scary? This one's horrific!
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Kalif Kasaba 8 years ago
Disturbed kitty copes by watching the entire process from start to finish.
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Sorai Jordan 8 years ago
that's incredibly creative! it's disturbing, but funny at the same time
Becky Smith 8 years ago
Has Mimi ever been on Face Off? If not, she would stand more than a good chance of winning each and every season!!
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Neve von C 8 years ago
this is i see almost every day when walking with my dog at 38 degrees and those lady pussies with a loooot of makeup are passing by
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Kira Leseman 8 years ago
But you didn't have to cut me off Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing And I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough…
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Keegan Lennon 8 years ago
The eyes and mouth at the bottom look like cartman's hand in South Park
Christine Aspinall 8 years ago
Can you imagine walking or driving down a busy street and seeing this? - Multiple accidents! Hahaha!
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Lucina Sandoval-Gordon 8 years ago
First it's like, not that scary. Then I kept looking at it and I thought this is horrific. Awesome work.
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Terri Rowland 8 years ago
This is what happens when you leave your mermaid out of the water too long 😁 💕
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Kira Leseman 8 years ago
All she needs is a silhouette of a couple under a umbrella
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Janette Murray 8 years ago
While these are different and get your attention, there is no doubt this lady is loaded with talent. A consummate artist indeed, and why not use the face as a canvas? Most impressive.
Cheryl Rehan 8 years ago
I think she is way, way beyond 'artist', she is a master in her own right.
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Cynthia Wilkins 8 years ago
Constant struggle of good vs evil? (red area looks like a devil, note the point like a horn and the other eye looks to be something from a church's stained glass, maybe a saint)
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Terri Rowland 8 years ago
Imagine going to cut into one of those eggs and she opens her eyes 👀
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Maria Cogliano 8 years ago
This is so amazing... love to see talent like this!!! Wow, just Wow!!!!
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N G 8 years ago
WOW - these are amazing, i wouldn't want to meet any of these girls on a dark night
Tee Peterson 8 years ago
DAMN!!!! Please tell me you do this professionally!?!!! You are scary talented!
Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
Wow, super creepy, realistic, great job. Can definately give one hibbie-jibbies.
Sondre Strøm Linde 8 years ago
Holy s**t, these are crazy good!! (I realize someone already said crazy good, but damn, they are crazy good!)
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
Have you tried sending your portfolio over to some horror movie production companies? I think they'd be very interested.
N G 8 years ago
WOW - these are amazing, i wouldn't want to meet any of these girls on a dark night
Tee Peterson 8 years ago
DAMN!!!! Please tell me you do this professionally!?!!! You are scary talented!
Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
Wow, super creepy, realistic, great job. Can definately give one hibbie-jibbies.
Sondre Strøm Linde 8 years ago
Holy s**t, these are crazy good!! (I realize someone already said crazy good, but damn, they are crazy good!)
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
Have you tried sending your portfolio over to some horror movie production companies? I think they'd be very interested.
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