A Full year of Makeup - On one day - Lernert & Sander: Natural Beauty

Lernert & Sander's "Natural Beauty"
Dutch artists Lernert and Sander apply a year's worth of makeup on Belgian supermodel Hannelore Knuts. The point of the video wasn't to trash people for wearing make up. It was to inform people of how much make up is used in a year. They aren't idiots who don't know you wash your make up off, they're just showing that you use more than you think you do. I understand the use of make-up as an art

Cheeky directors Lernert & Sander embrace the urge for cosmetic overkill in their surreal short Natural Beauty. Makeup artist Ferry van der Nat and his assistant Vanessa Chan helped to execute the vision, slathering a host of Ellis Faas products on Belgian beauty Hannelore Knuts, who was recently named the new face of Swiss fashion house Akris. Lernert & Sander began collaborating in 2006; since then they've done everything from melt a chocolate bunny with a hairdryer to repurpose household appliances as sex toys in the name of video art. We asked the co-conspirators to break down the shoot in detail.