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Articles by Nick Barose
A Look Into Thai Actress Aokbab Chuengcharoensukying’s Life
Each year, a certain full moon keeps most of Thailand awake. The Loy Krathong festival takes place on the Thai lunar calendar’s 12th month, and people are invited to float krathong on bodies of water, a gesture signifying the release of bad luck. These circular candle-lit vessels are typically made with banana leaves and decorated with flowers; sometimes, they even include pieces of a person’s hair and nails. The tableau is plucked right out of a glimmering Disney film.
What It's Like Being an Asian-Black Model in Southeast Asia • EBONY
Contrary to popular belief, Asians are not homogeneous in look. The inhabitants of Southeast Asia, which compromises of countries such as the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, tend to be much darker complected than their East Asian counterparts. And though most of the population of these nations are honey-colored or darker, colorism still holds an ever tightening grip. The Korean beauty standard of fair and light is the ideal for most.
On Color - and Colorism - In Thailand Original
I grew up in Bangkok surrounded by color: yellow marigolds, purple lotuses, and green peacocks nearly as common as pigeons. My grandmother would lay out a spectrum of pink Thai silks, a lucky color to wear on Tuesdays, and say, "Which should I wear?" It’s how I choose lipstick today — take out all the fuchsias, pick the right one — and I still think of her.
How to Get Rid of Dark Circles and Bags
If you’re looking for a zombie makeup tutorial, click away. For our next installment of Pretty Simple, the Cut’s series on makeup 101, celebrity makeup artist Nick Barose is teaching us how to look not just undead, but downright well-rested. Maybe you’ve heard about green under-eye concealers, baking, or using the triangle method to cover up your dark eye circles — Barose is here to debunk all that with classic makeup techniques.
The Best Way to Apply Blush
The way Harry bit his lip while looking at Meghan, a perfectly timed picture of Jeff Goldblum, and great makeup application — all things that might make your cheeks look appealingly flushed. The right blush makes you look healthy and awake, like you just finished a workout and are ready to take on the world. But blush can make some people nervous.
How to Cover Up a Pimple With Makeup (Video Tutorial)
Everyone gets pimples, even famous people. Celebrity makeup artist Nick Barose, who works with clients like Gillian Jacobs and Amandla Stenberg, knows that the occasional blemish is unavailable. But as a longtime champion of makeup for real life, he also knows how to handle surprise zits in a realistic way. “It’s not about getting rid of the pimple immediately. That’s impossible,” he says.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying Perfect Red Lipstick
In 2013, Lupita Nyong’o burst onto the scene with an Oscar-winning performance in 12 Years a Slave and a personal tour de lipstick. One night, she’d appear with aquamarine eyes and cherry bold lips; another night, her lips would be blue. Her embrace of bold colors was thanks in part to Thai makeup artist Nick Barose, a former Kevyn Aucoin assistant who’d worked with her from the very start.
How Gugu Mbatha-Raw Is Shattering Hollywood’s Glass Ceilings
There is the argument that casting a Black woman in a role that was originally written for a non-brown actress might be slightly easier with someone like Mbatha-Raw, who is light skin and appears ethnically ambiguous. There’s also the argument that when the entertainment industry focuses on simply slotting minorities into existing roles, it gets a pass on creating stories for and about people of color.
6 Ideas for Holiday Makeup Looks Inspired by Celebrities
The makeup artist wants you to forget all the tinsel and ornaments this holiday season, and channel the disco era instead with these 6 celebrity-inspired looks.
Rose McIver iZombie Interview
Zombies have enjoyed a meteoric rise in popular culture for the past few years now, which is ironic given their slow-moving, lugubrious pace. Thanks to shows like The Walking Dead and The Returned and movies such as World War Z, zombies are hot. This, again, is quite counterintuitive, because the skulking carcasses we see on the screen are anything but. The tides of zombie lore are changing, though, and the undead are now getting reanimated with feelings and, well, life.
Chrissie Fit Pitch Perfect 2 Interview
Photo: Matt Baron/BEImages. Chrissie Fit joins Hailee Steinfeld and a host of other talented women for the upcoming, hotly anticipated, we'll-see-it-twice-in-theaters-thank-you-very-much musical comedy Pitch Perfect 2, but we're confident that this is just her star-studded beginning.
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