"Makeup to me is very much to create in a way that I can not with other media. A face is so much more intimate than a canvas."
Laurence Philomene interviews the gender non-conforming and non-binary models behind their first shoot for Fluide.
Catch some behind the scenes shots of activist, writer, and all-around-babe, Jacob Tobia.
"My earliest experience with makeup was being told that I couldn’t wear it. I lived in a somewhat strict southern household and my mother laid down the law: I was never to wear makeup because she thought that it was something that 'women' wore to seduce or something used as a replacement for genuine self-confidence."
"If I remember correctly, (and my memory is spotty for many reasons), I wore eyeliner a handful of times in high school. Once, I was drunk with a bunch of girlfriends, and the notion of it being silly was precariously balanced with the whisperings of a shared feeling that it was 'kinda hot.'"