Ashley Frangipane—higher identified to the world as artist Halsey—is dialing into our Zoom name whereas on break from “the studio.” Although except you ask her to specify which one—recording, artwork, or make-up—it is onerous to know which they’re at present spending their time in. That is as a result of the 29-year-old is a painter, self-taught make-up artist who based the model About-Face in 2021, and has recorded 4 studio albums, with a brand new one at present in manufacturing.  

At this time, we’re right here to speak about their creative creations from all the studios, really. “I can not consider a greater strategy to spend the period of my life than being devoted to creating artwork,” Halsey tells Vogue. Just lately, she’s taken “scissors to a canvas,” bared her soul “eight days straight within the recording studio,” and created a brand new complexion product that is gotten the gold-star approval of each the sweaty live performance stage and motherhood. 

“I contact my face lots,” she says. “I am doing it proper now! I even have a two-year-old son, and he is an enormous face toucher, too. And I am too smooth of a mother to say ‘don’t contact my face [because I have makeup on],’ so I wanted one thing that might face up to grabby toddler fingers and kisses from a toddler mouth, too.”

The product is a 45-shade basis cheekily named The Performer, as a result of not solely was it created by a performer, however the product additionally withstood an all-out efficiency in the course of the R&D part—one thing that genuinely shocked the artist.