Isamaya Ffrench

Youtube video 'Isamaya Ffrench - The New YSL Beauté Ambassador - Vogue Announcement' - https://youtu.be/kkdXrPzspOQ

CAREER 

Then one weekend a friend asked me to make his girlfriend up as a sexy tiger. I thought, 'Why not?' because I already had all my paints with me. And then I realized, 'Hang on, she looks alright! Maybe it doesn't have to be for kids!' Then it became a word of mouth thing and I started getting real makeup jobs. I did my first fashion shoot with for i-D Magazine with the photographer Matthew Stone. I wasn't really into fashion and I didn't know what I was doing—or even what i-D really was—but Matthew asked me to come and do some body painting to turn these boys into gods and deities, painted in clay...and naked. It was just an amazing experience and I suppose that everything sort of really took off from there. Although, there was a while where I just felt like a professional genital painter. I did one willy and suddenly everyone was like, 'She's fine, she'll paint willies!' So I just kept getting asked to. I have one-use brushes now—I don't want to contaminate the makeup! 

https://intothegloss.com/2014/07/isamaya-ffrench-makeup/

Isamaya Ffrench photographed by L aura Allard-Fleisch at her home in London. Interview by Olivia J. Singer.