In makeup, the spotlight has always been on the eyes and lips. Miya, an editorial makeup artist based between New York and Shanghai, lifts that gaze a little higher. She turns the forehead, usually swept with foundation and passed over, into the widest canvas on the face. Call it "forehead maxxing."
It begins with pearls. Covering the entire forehead in tightly set pearls, she declares it the star. On the next forehead sit a blue sky, a green field and a small house with a red roof. Just beyond the forehead lies the mind, so the scene looks like a single thought taken out and hung up as a painting.
The forehead becomes a playground, too. Miya is also a painter. To her, the forehead is a canvas to be filled with a brush. She attaches small mirror tiles across the forehead, covering the face like pixels. It resembles a QR code. On another forehead bloom two lilies in pink and blue. The watercolor-like brush strokes remain intact.
From the spot that was always left empty, Miya unfolds an expansive story. The forehead carries what lies outside the emotions the eyes and lips express. What kind of picture would suit your forehead?
It begins with pearls. Covering the entire forehead in tightly set pearls, she declares it the star. On the next forehead sit a blue sky, a green field and a small house with a red roof. Just beyond the forehead lies the mind, so the scene looks like a single thought taken out and hung up as a painting.
The forehead becomes a playground, too. Miya is also a painter. To her, the forehead is a canvas to be filled with a brush. She attaches small mirror tiles across the forehead, covering the face like pixels. It resembles a QR code. On another forehead bloom two lilies in pink and blue. The watercolor-like brush strokes remain intact.
From the spot that was always left empty, Miya unfolds an expansive story. The forehead carries what lies outside the emotions the eyes and lips express. What kind of picture would suit your forehead?
FAQ
What is forehead maxing?
Forehead maxing is a makeup technique pioneered by artist Miya that transforms the forehead—traditionally just a foundation surface—into the face's largest canvas, adorned with pearls, landscape paintings, mirror tiles, floral art, and other creative expressions.
Who is Miya as a makeup artist?
Miya is an editorial makeup artist and painter working between New York and Shanghai. She treats the forehead as a canvas to be filled with her brush, shifting makeup's focal point from eyes and lips to the forehead.
What designs does Miya create on the forehead?
Miya covers entire foreheads with pearls or paints blue skies, green fields, and red-roofed houses. She affixes tiny mirror tiles like pixels or renders pink and blue lilies in watercolor-style strokes across the skin.
