A face can be a canvas, a character, a story, and sometimes even a mask. 🎭 This portrait was inspired by an incredibly talented hairstylist and makeup artist elfstylist whose ability to create and transform images caught my attention. Perhaps I see this art a little differently because I once stood on the other side of the mirror. For many years, I worked in television on numerous productions, including the wonderful vecherniy_urgant ( urgantlive ), where I worked as a Chief Makeup Artist and Hairstylist. Over the years, I worked with television hosts, actors, artists, musicians, politicians, public figures, and people from all over the world, different cultures, nationalities, personalities, and social backgrounds. And when you work so closely with people, you learn something far beyond technique. You learn to observe, to read people, to feel their energy, to adapt, and to understand how they see themselves and how they want to be seen by the world. There is a very delicate lin...