BYOB Art Workshop
-- Bring Your Own Beauty --
What’s forgotten at the bottom of your makeup bag? Maybe you’ve decided to break free from the expectations of beauty standards and want to clear out your collection. Maybe those products are still your favourites, but they’ve passed their expiration date and are no longer safe for your priceless skin. Or maybe you just want to spice up your stash and find a better way to let go of the old.
Instead of struggling with tricky recycling or throwing them away, this workshop invites you to transform your used or expired beauty products into your creative medium. Replacing traditional paints with makeup pigments, we will use a mix of painting and collage (with provided paper, magazines, glues and scissors) to turn these everyday "tools of the trade" into unique works of art.
This workshop is part of the On the Luse series, organised by the London-based creative collective Luminal Space.
Luminal Space aims to provide a safe, energising environment for women+ and marginalised communities to explore unidentified experiences through inclusive art and storytelling. We often feel stuck in between—in a liminal space. This collective hopes to bring light to our community and find a way to walk forward together through creativity.
In this session, we explore the liminal space of the vanity table: that private, "in-between" moment where we prepare ourselves for the world. The title "On the Luse" is a play on being "on the loose"—it’s about breaking the rules, letting ourselves get creative and expressing whatever we feel, regardless of what the world tells us to be. Whatever you create is art.
What to bring:
- BYOB (Bring Your Own Beauty): Please bring any used, old or expired makeup products you no longer use (lipsticks, palettes, liners, etc.).
- All other materials (water, paper, magazines, scissors and glue) will be provided.
Come for the creativity, stay for the community, and let’s see what happens when we let our beauty products on the luse.
About the Facilitator
Lu Zhao 赵璐 (she/they) is an artist and the founder of Luminal Space. Their work explores the intersection of identity, gender, rituals and the objects we carry with us. Through Luminal Space, they create safe, inclusive environments where art serves as a tool for deep connection and self-discovery.