notes on Guy Bourdin:

-He was a madman who thought the color green was very bad luck.

-In his world, beauty is inextricably linked to death, filth, and corrupted laughter.

-His universe is hallucinatory, caustic, and parodic.
-A world of impossible glamour, impossible pleasure, and impossible danger.
-He was in opposition of refined elegance and vapid optimism.

Makeup in Guy's World (very specific):

Eyes: heavily-shadowed, contoured and lined; lids coated in blue, black, gray, or brown

Cheeks: lots of visible rouge in pink, peach, rose, or coral

Lips: bright, garish lipstick, glossy or matte, hot red or shocking pink

Nails: burning, blue-based red, matte daggers 

Skin: pale, pale, pale

-Everything enhanced to the fullest, dragged to the extreme

-Feminine features amplified

-Anti-natural

-High-octane glamour

-Nothing is ignored or neglected