Alex Box-Art meets makeup

I wanted to share with you one of my favorite makeup artists right now.  If you don't know about Alex Box and you love makeup you have to run out and get her book.
 
A former artist (she studied at England's Chelsea College of Art), Box soon swapped paint for make-up as her medium and has since collaborated with designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Gareth Pugh, as well as photographers like Nick Knight, Steven Klein and Rankin. The antithesis of the workaday beauty movement, Box is all about pushing the boundaries. “For me, the inspiration is having a model that can be transformed,” she says. “I don’t really know what I’m doing until it pours out on the canvas, and that canvas happens to be the model’s face.”

She is now the creative director and makeup artist of Illamasqua cosmetics (sold at Sephora).

Her work is amazing and in my opinion she's doing the most interesting make up I've seen in a long time.

She also has an amazing book that came out last year and that you can get through Amazon UK.  It's a most for those of you who are thinking of pursuing a career in make-up artistry:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alex-Box-Rankin/dp/095631550X

Here are some images from her extensive portfolio.