maggieshock:

“Because black lipstick and red eyeshadow never ‘beautified’ anybody. They were the cosmetic equivalent of Duchamp’s moustache on the Mona Lisa. They were cosmetics used as satire on cosmetics, on the arbitrary convention that puts blue on eyelids and pink on lips. Why not the other way round? The best part of the joke was that the look itself was utterly monstrous. It instantly coveted the most beautiful women into outrageous grotesques; every face a work of anti-art. I enjoyed it very, very much.”

— Angela Carter, The Wound in the Face