Molting in a darkened room. The color dries faster than my form changes, by morning the sun finds a stranger wearing my own skin. A beauty series shot by Eileen Aolani.

In Shifting, beauty loses its fixed coordinates. Mariya Tatarnikova brings the face so close, and alters it so precisely, that recognition begins to fail and the image starts reading as mutable surface instead.

Beauty and makeup have always gone hand in hand. In this editorial photographed by Sacha Lusiada, the idea of beauty is dismantled and transformed. What if makeup was a tool for raw self expression? An expression that exposes our wildest inner nature, the features of our personality that we feel need the need to hide.

A spotlight on Le Labo, the brand that revolutionised modern perfumery, revealing the behind-the-scenes process and inviting us to become part of the creation of evocative, unforgettable scents.