While most makeup artists tend to follow the conventional rules of of the trade, 25-year-old Laura Jenkinson prefers to do her own thing. For the past year, she has been using all her colorful cosmetics and makeup brushes to recreate popular cartoon characters on her mouth and chin. She paints them in such a way that her mouth becomes their mouth as well, making the characters instantly come alive。

在大多数化妆师循规蹈矩的做着化妆工作的时候，25岁的化妆师劳拉·詹金森却“不走寻常路”。在过去的一年里，她用色彩斑斓的化妆品和化妆用的小刷子，以自己的嘴唇和下巴为画布，画出了许多卡通人物。劳拉用这种方式将自己的嘴巴和卡通人物的嘴巴合二为一，从而使得这些卡通人物个个栩栩如生。

London-based Laura has so far painted a host of characters on her mouth, including The Cookie Monster, Shrek, Taz the Tasmanian Devil and several others from Disney movies, Looney Tunes, Pixar, and South Park. Last week, she did Robin Williams’ genie from Aladdin as a tribute to the actor. She does the paintings so accurately that every time her lips move, it appears as though the character is talking。

这位来自伦敦的化妆师目前为止已经在嘴唇上画出了包括饼干怪兽、怪物史莱克，以及来自迪士尼电影、兔八哥系列、皮克斯及南方公园等的许多卡通人物。上周，劳拉还为纪念演员罗宾·威廉姆斯创作了其在阿拉丁里配音的卡通形象。劳拉的画十分逼真，以至于每次她的嘴唇动起来时，就像是这些卡通人物自己在说话一样。

Despite the fact that she’s looking at herself in the mirror while drawing on her face, Laura says that her technique is incredibly simple. “I find a picture and then just hold it up to the mirror as a guide and draw straight onto my face – it’s easier than you think,” she explained. “I use theatrical makeup normally, but I occasionally use lipstick if I need to get the exact shade of something。

”虽然劳拉画画的时候得对着镜子，但劳拉说她的作画技巧其实非常简单。“我先找来一幅画放在镜子上，然后照着它直接在我的脸上画起来，这真的比你想象的简单很多。”罗拉解释说，“我常用的是那种舞台妆的油彩，但有时为了某种特定的阴影效果我还会用到唇彩。”

“Ironically, drawing onto someone else is more difficult – I think it’s more straightforward drawing onto my own face,” she added. Sometimes, she adds a special effect – like Bugs Bunny’s singular, large tooth. She even does a few characters upside down, to get the effect of the teeth right。

“有意思的是，我觉得直接在我自己脸上画画反而比在别人脸上画画更简单。”劳拉说有时她也增加一些特效，比如兔八哥独特的大板牙。有时为了让牙齿表现得恰到好处，劳拉还会把卡通人物倒着画在脸上。

Once she completes a cartoon painting, she takes a picture of herself with a weird expression on her mouth that adds depth to the character’s expression. She then posts the pictures on Instagram, receiving up to 1,500 ‘likes’. In fact, she says that it was Instagram that inspired her to take up the project in the first place。

劳拉每次画完一幅作品，都会用相机拍下来，嘴唇摆出的不同造型让卡通人物更加具有生命力。之后她把这些照片上传至Instagram，很快得到了超过1500个赞。实际上，Instagram正是启发罗拉这样画画的第一个地方。

“I’d seen loads of other fantastic makeup artists on Instagram and I wanted to do something similar on a bigger scale so I started doing about one a week。”

“我在Instagram上看到过许多化妆师的好玩作品，所以也想自己去做一些，然后就花了一周时间开始做。”

Laura admits that she is thrilled with all the positive response her work has received. “People always say it makes them really happy and it’s nice to bring a bit of joy。

”劳拉承认说她的作品能得到大家的正面评价让她很感动。“大家常说这些作品让他们很开心，能给大家带来快乐，这真是太好了。”