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Taiwanese cosmetics artist wins top award in Vancouver
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Taipei, April 21 (CNA) A young Taiwanese cosmetics artist won the coveted top prize at the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show (IMAT) in Vancouver, Canada last Sunday.
"It came as a big surprise to me," a jubilant Cheng Wei-ying said in a telephone interview with the Central News Agency Wednesday.
Cheng, an information and mass communications graduate of Yuan Ze University in northern Taiwan's Taoyuan County, is studying makeup design at the Vancouver Film School. She was the school's first student of Chinese descent to receive the top award in an IMAT contest. The award carried a cash prize of 1,000 Canadian dollars.
The IMAT is held five times per year -- in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Sydney -- and the contest is open to students and those who have graduated for less than a year.
In the final event in the contest, Cheng said that each participant was required to demonstrate their creativity and make-up skills on a selected model using themes from the Brothers Grimm fairytales. Each contestant had three hours to perform complete makevoers on the model's body, hair and face.
The 24-year-old cosmetics artist said her entry was based on the tale of "The Frog Prince" and infused with a sense of modernity.
"I tried to convey a sense of solitude by styling the model into a cursed prince who projected an ugly image but possessed a kind heart," Cheng explained.
Finalists only had three weeks to prepare and assemble materials needed for their creation, Cheng said.
"I spent one week sewing a special jacket to be worn by the model and I spent more than 1,000 Canadian dollars purchasing cosmetics materials, " she recalled.
She only learned about patches to be pasted on the model's face 10 minutes before the start of the contest. "Such an arrangement was aimed at testing the contestant's sensitivity," she said, adding that she had to dye the hair on the patches before pasting them on the model during the contest.
Cheng has only studied cosmetics in Canada for a year. "I take great interest in cosmetics as the human body is the most fascinating canvas for painting and the feel of painting on the human body is beyond imagination," she added.
After winning the first international prize of her career, Cheng said she still has a long way to go to realize her dream of becoming an outstanding make-up artist.
"I would not hesitate to travel far to do makeup for somebody and to help realize his or her dream," Cheng said, adding that she hopes her creativity and cosmetics work can help draw world attention to Taiwan.
(By Chou Yung-chieh and Sofia Wu) enditem/bc
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