I was enthralled to learn that Illamasqua have teamed up with London funeral directors Leverton & Sons to provide a makeup service for the dead. With prices starting at £450, you can book a professional artist to fulfill your last beauty desires and make you casket-ready for mourners.
This all sounds quite chillingly macabre, but more and more these days people are planning their own funerals, so why not order your final face alongside the coffin? As an A-Level student I wrote myself a requiem in music class, embracing the literature-fuelled romanticism of death, and this service taps in to this idea; though I'm sure most folk wouldn't want to be an Egyptian queen like the lady in the pic above, the idea of an post-life enhancement will probably be popular with many. The Illamasqua artists have had full training to enable them to work with the deceased, which indicates the company are taking this seriously, not simply presenting a press-grabbing gimmick.
This post comes at a time of riots in London; we seem to have avoided trouble so far, but pubs are boarded and shops closed. I'm currently keeping watch from the kitchen window for any hoodies on the street below! I won't go in to a rant, but I find the whole situation shameful; London's own people destroying the city and claiming their thievery and thuggery is protest.
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