[mysterious music]
- This is behind my house.
I come here quite a lot to photograph
ideas I have because I love all the textures
and the colors here.
I think they're really beautiful.
Bitchslut shits in this corner here.
Bitchslut does really big poos.
They're really pretty actually.
[mysterious music]
Hi, I'm Salvia, and I'm in my bedroom in Wales,
and I'm going to be showing you how I get ready.
[intense music]
I'm gonna start with tubes.
I'm obsessed with tubes,
they're one of my favorite things to use.
I'm going to be super-gluing them
from my nose to my forehead.
It's going to separate my eyes apart
and create a more cat-like, alien face essentially.
I'm gonna start by cutting them
so that they fit nicely.
Fuck.
I like feeling it like this
because it needs to be quite flat and sharp
so that it lays nicely on my skin.
I love how futuristic they look,
and I love how medical and alien they look.
Okay, that looks good.
Now that the tubes are cut, I'm going to use Superglue,
because it's quick
and it holds them
for as long as I want them to be there.
I feel pretty happy with
that positioning, I think.
I think the origin of my makeup
started with paintings that I was doing.
When I was around, I guess, thirteen,
I started doing drawings and oil paintings.
They weren't of aliens necessarily,
they were kind of humans
that had been
modified heavily
and they looked kind of half-alien, half animal.
I kind of lost interest in the drawing and painting
when I started doing my own makeup, because
it was way more fulfilling for me
to be creating the looks in 3-D and bringing them to life.
Oh my God, Superglue's not meant to be on your face.
I created this method myself,
so I don't actually know how you're supposed to do it
if you're a prosthetic makeup artist.
If you're willing to just push yourself
and not have any kind of judgements towards your instincts,
you can kind of just make what you want to make
and create something beautiful.
Oh my God.
It's worth it for the fantasy.
Some of the things that I think influenced me
when I was younger, that kind of inspired me
was just watching videos on YouTube of fashion shows.
I was obsessed with Alexander McQueen shows
and videos of people like Leigh Bowery.
I would rewatch Lady Gaga's music videos
hundreds and hundreds of times.
I loved music videos and fashion shows.
They would just make me feel comfortable and safe
and took me away from Wales.
So now that my Superglue has dried,
I'm going to be
putting foundation all over my face.
Foundation's an important part of my makeup,
just because I shave my head
and even though I shave it down to the skin,
there's still a shadow that's there
and I really want to hide that shadow as much as possible
and make it look like my hairline is naturally up here,
rather than as if my head is half shaved.
I just want it to look like
I have a giant forehead essentially.
I've never understood a lot of people's obsessions
with having a small forehead.
I think big is so beautiful.
Moving to London, for me, was a very important experience,
because I kind of found a huge amount of confidence
and freedom living there, because I was just,
I wasn't being dragged down by all the sadness
and anxiety that I've kind of developed
with being in Wales.
I had quite a bad experience growing up
and with being bullied.
I've never really been interested in
doing looks purely for the internet
or purely for
a project or a creation.
I've always loved
just looking like this,
just for my day-to-day life.
If I'm dressed and I've got my makeup on,
Sometimes just living and going out
and interacting with the world
can be its own performance
and its own art piece,
because it can be so theatrical
and beautiful.
I think everybody's doing that.
I don't think that's something that's exclusive to me.
I think everybody does that in their own way.
Part of the influence of my eye shape was
a trend that I saw happening in Korea
where people would highlight the eyebrows
and create a small shadow underneath,
and when I saw it I thought it looked so cute
and it also kind of resembles the way I would draw eyes
when I did paintings.
I have a very strong vision of what I want
and what I consider to be beautiful for myself
and for my own world.
I remember the first time I ever tried using
white eyeliner and white mascara.
I was quite blown away
by how beautiful I felt, I guess.
It was amazing.
I definitely get frustrated sometimes
with how limiting physics can be
and biology can be.
I don't think there should be really any limits.
Nullo is a project I created with my partner, Parma Ham,
and it's essentially a mixture between fetish,
art, fashion, and performance.
I think in order to live life in a way
that's as fulfilling as possible,
it's important to address your fears
and kind of push yourself
as far as possible
and never really stop.
I think there's always more boundaries
and more limits and more fears
that need to be addressed.
The next step is going to be
putting red on the inner corner of my eye
to kind of pull my eyes down
and make them look slightly more cat-like.
Later on, this red is also going to blend in
with the red Sclera lenses that I'm going to be wearing.
I think my drive to kind of address fears
comes from my personal need to get over fears
that I have developed due to my own experiences
and the way that I've been affected, I guess,
by society and by the way I grew up in Wales.
Hopefully it can also help people see a way to
express themselves and help them with
their own personal growth and recovery
from the constant trauma that is living.
So, to start my lips I'm going to
put white eyeliner all over
my lips.
I think at nighttime is when I'm most creative, usually,
so I quite often stay up all night.
I've created a lot of
projects and images that are based in my garden.
I feel very safe and I feel at home there.
The most ambitious thing, I guess, I've done
in my garden was
building a big wooden frame
and then kind of hanging myself from it.
I often wish to have multiples of myself
because I want to do too many things.
I'm going to start with putting a shadow
down the center of my lips.
I've struggled a lot with being censored online,
because the way I express myself is so,
I guess, extreme.
I can make a lot of people very violent
and angry and shocked,
and I'll have posts removed
that aren't sexual posts,
that aren't violent or aggressive, really,
in any way.
Next I'm going to be adding a darker eyeshadow
onto the
kind of the details
to enhance
the shapes I want.
I'm going to put highlighter now on my cheeks,
and a little bit on my browbone
to make myself look a bit more
alien and a bit more wet.
I want to look kind of newborn.
The final step of my makeup is going to be
putting in my Sclera contact lenses.
This is just going to kind of complete the look for me,
and it's gonna make the makeup really look
far more intense.
A lot of the things I do for my
look is quite painful,
but it's worth it for me.
I'm really obsessed with the color of this wig
because it's not really blond or ginger,
it's kind of almost beige hair.
It's almost skin-colored hair,
and I've also created this really
frizzy, fluffy texture.
I'm going to remove
the wig that I'm wearing right now
and put this one on.
I don't normally have to modify my wigs much,
I'll just wear them as they are.
I'll just wear them further back
on my head to kind of
create a new style
rather than just wearing it as its supposed to be worn.
With this wig, though, I did style it a bit
so that I could give it this big, fluffy texture
at the bottom.
Now that I'm happy with my hair and makeup,
and I feel complete,
I'm gonna be putting on a dress that I made
a couple of years ago.
I think it's a perfect look for
going on a bike ride around the village.
I'm feeling very happy about this look.
I feel very good in myself.
I'm wearing my white palazzo boots today.
I think they're really pretty.
I like how powerful I feel when I wear heels.
I think I feel sad when I wear flat shoes.
I do wish that they were taller, though.
I think it would be even better.
One of my favorite things to do
when I'm in Wales is ride my bicycle.
I find it really calming,
and it's a good space to be in,
to kind of come up with some ideas, I think.
[eerie music]
I'm hoping to adventure
into new things.
I'm excited for the new developments
and learning adventures,
cause I'm kind of bored with just
makeup and hair and clothes and pictures.
I want to create more.