The introduction to a new book by make-up artist Marcelo Gutierrez is written by his close friend Lily-Rose Depp. ‘[Make-up] is the art that moves and breathes with us, that becomes us and helps us become who we want to be. It brings the inside to the very surface and becomes the skin we live in,’ the actor says in the forward to Nothing Precious.
Gutierrez echoes this sentiment when I speak to him over a call from the set of his latest photoshoot, ahead of the book’s launch at Climax Books in New York – the city he calls home. ‘Beauty is a lot less about changing something about yourself and more about putting a spotlight on the elements that make you who you are,’ he says. ‘Make-up, at the end of the day, reveals a lot about a person's relationship to themselves by what they decide to exaggerate, hide, or even change.’
