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Introducing the 10+ Issue 7 beauty supplement. Beauty isn’t solely about how it looks. How it feels is just as important. And its power comes from deep within. It is rooted inside the psyche, as Val Garland, the legendary make-up artist behind our cover story, explains. Inside the issue, she talks of being driven from a young age to express herself with make-up and hair and responds to this in an otherworldly photoshoot lensed by Rob Rusling and styled by our very own Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou. Here, Dominic Cadogan sits down with the make-up authority.

Any beauty lover worth their salt knows the trailblazing impact of Val Garland. In fact, over her three-decade career, you’d struggle to find a designer, magazine, photographer or celebrity face that she hasn’t, to borrow a phrase from her 2018 tome, Validated!.

Whether it’s painting tattoo-like ejaculating penises on models for Vivienne Westwood, bedazzling Björk, transmogrifying Gareth Pugh models into bug-eyed aliens with Venus flytrap lashes, becoming L’Oréal Paris’s first global make-up director or inspiring Gaga’s legendary 2010 MTV VMAs meat dress, the only constant is Garland’s approach to her craft: gut instinct and unbound creativity.

“I come at a beauty story from an artistic point of view,” the make-up legend tells 10. “That sounds wanky, but I always want to make a visual image. I have a few ideas up my sleeve and I see what happens – I’m not really a planner. That probably goes back to where I started in the ’80s. It was all about making it up as you go along and finding the beauty in imperfection. I like to disrupt a bit rather than it being all lovely.”

Back then, when Garland was starting out, she began making waves in hair, not make-up. After “stomping out” of school as a teen, she hoodwinked her way into a salon, with no prior experience, quickly learning on the go after years of self-transformation. “I wanted to be noticed for being different, not for being beautiful,” she says. “I went through this stage of burning my hair, so I had this sort of sticking- out-everywhere hairdo and my mother always used to say to me, ‘Why do you make yourself so ugly?’ But I quite liked being the odd kid. I had this wild imagination and would make up stories of what I thought was really happening, but wasn’t. I was convinced I was an alien.”

Determined to find her own path, Garland ended up in Sydney, Australia, opening her own salon, Garland & Garland. Cutting and colouring during the day and partying at night, it was the spark that lit the blaze of creative expression that was to come. “I was heavily in the gay club scene, it was fantastic and where everything happened,” she recalls. “We lived for the nightlife and would be making outfits out of dishcloths, bin bags and bandages. Australia gave me a taste of being whoever I wanted to be without any fear. I was already experimenting with make-up and it just took off.”

Introducing the 10+ Issue 7 beauty supplement. Beauty isn’t solely about how it looks. How it feels is just as important. And its power comes from deep within. It is rooted inside the psyche, as Val Garland, the legendary make-up artist behind our cover story, explains. Inside the issue, she talks of being driven from a young age to express herself with make-up and hair and responds to this in an otherworldly photoshoot lensed by Rob Rusling and styled by our very own Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou. Here, Dominic Cadogan sits down with the make-up authority.

Any beauty lover worth their salt knows the trailblazing impact of Val Garland. In fact, over her three-decade career, you’d struggle to find a designer, magazine, photographer or celebrity face that she hasn’t, to borrow a phrase from her 2018 tome, Validated!.

Whether it’s painting tattoo-like ejaculating penises on models for Vivienne Westwood, bedazzling Björk, transmogrifying Gareth Pugh models into bug-eyed aliens with Venus flytrap lashes, becoming L’Oréal Paris’s first global make-up director or inspiring Gaga’s legendary 2010 MTV VMAs meat dress, the only constant is Garland’s approach to her craft: gut instinct and unbound creativity.

“I come at a beauty story from an artistic point of view,” the make-up legend tells 10. “That sounds wanky, but I always want to make a visual image. I have a few ideas up my sleeve and I see what happens – I’m not really a planner. That probably goes back to where I started in the ’80s. It was all about making it up as you go along and finding the beauty in imperfection. I like to disrupt a bit rather than it being all lovely.”

Back then, when Garland was starting out, she began making waves in hair, not make-up. After “stomping out” of school as a teen, she hoodwinked her way into a salon, with no prior experience, quickly learning on the go after years of self-transformation. “I wanted to be noticed for being different, not for being beautiful,” she says. “I went through this stage of burning my hair, so I had this sort of sticking- out-everywhere hairdo and my mother always used to say to me, ‘Why do you make yourself so ugly?’ But I quite liked being the odd kid. I had this wild imagination and would make up stories of what I thought was really happening, but wasn’t. I was convinced I was an alien.”

Determined to find her own path, Garland ended up in Sydney, Australia, opening her own salon, Garland & Garland. Cutting and colouring during the day and partying at night, it was the spark that lit the blaze of creative expression that was to come. “I was heavily in the gay club scene, it was fantastic and where everything happened,” she recalls. “We lived for the nightlife and would be making outfits out of dishcloths, bin bags and bandages. Australia gave me a taste of being whoever I wanted to be without any fear. I was already experimenting with make-up and it just took off.”