Nicole Law

I am inspired from looking at vintage beauty devises from the 1930’s such as the dimple devise, nose corrector and others. With my work I wanted to comment on the fact that we are still just as hopelessly willing to try new and sometimes extreme methods to make ourselves more beautiful. What with botox and cosmetic surgery readily available and being advertised on television and in magazines, I feel there is a lot of pressure on women to always “look there best”. I wanted my work to be ridiculous and for the viewer to see the comical side of fashion and beauty and the lengths that women got to, to make themselves more beautiful.

I manipulate images from fashion magazines, using the models as paper dolls I dress them in these beauty devises made up from other parts of images.
I felt that it was important to leave the images as raw collage rather than to reprint them into advertisment posters as you can see that the models have been physically manipulated with these torture-like beauty devises. As a result I feel my work has a sense of black humour as the beauty devises are so ridiculous, yet there is a serious background.