For many drag performers, makeup is an essential tool for creating a distinct personal image. However, unlike other performing art forms, it’s more than just putting on a costume or wearing stage makeup; it’s an opportunity to be more dramatic than is possible day-to-day, by exploring gender, art and identity.

Cake Boi, based in Birmingham, spends his time onstage lip-syncing to Lana Del Rey and delivering fantastical performances. Judas Darkholme, who works in Manchester, is a drag performer

It’s no secret that Generation Z, otherwise known as ‘digital natives’, have been exposed to constantly changing beauty trends through the onslaught of influencer selfies and 17-step makeup routines on YouTube. The newest movement in the pursuit of modern-day perfection is all about the anti-ageing skincare routine. With a few years indoors quarantining, and spare time and access to the online world, Gen Z has been branded by cosmetic giants as ‘skintellectuals’; they are much savvier when it

There are many ways to unwind after a long and busy day. Some opt for a glass of wine, some run themselves a bath. But an ever-expanding internet phenomenon has been the choice for many people to numb their brains before they drift off to sleep – pimple and pore extraction videos.

Starting roughly in 2015 by Dr. Sandra Lee (AKA Dr. Pimple Popper), this unlikely hero of the self-care and night-time routine has been a growing trend. Dr. Lee popularised it by uploading videos of extracting cysts,