“A girl should be two things classy and fabulous”
Coco Chanel
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inside CANVAS 24 She is beautiful - Istanbul
5 Beauty Phenomenon
30 She is into Fashion
22 Meet Soraya Bakhtiar
31 She is into Art
32 Live Life With Colour
16 Meet Meriç Küçük
14 Meet Christina Bazan
Cover Page - The Taiwaneese Model is wearing white silk blouse from ZARA. Make up - Rimmel Scandaleyes Eye Liner in black- Illamasqua blush in Katie - Chanel Perfection Lumiere Foundation no40 Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Mascara and YSL Gloss Valupte Lip Gloss in no19.
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From the Editor
Welcome to the first issue of the CANVAS Beauty Magazine. In this issue, we will take a cultural journey into beauty and hopefully, some of the stories will get you moved emotionally. The journey start with today’s social media and how its fast developments are defining how we approach beauty. Then we will be visiting one of the oldest cities in the world, İstanbul. Its beauty lies within the culture and contradictions that city had to face over the centuries. At some stages in our lives, we all go through difficult times. How difficult and fearful these times might be, believing that you will become a stronger person at the end of it. The process of creation the CANVAS beauty magazine has been coincided with such a period of my life but it was completely a worthwhile experience. Enjoy the very special first issue and I will see you in the next one.
Aynur Erin Kara
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Social Media
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phenomenon beauty blogs and social media A ccording to the global cosmetics gi-
ant, L’Oreal Paris, beauty is one of the most searched topics in Google in the world (about 4 billion searches a year). With the increasing popularity of reality shows and beauty magazines, millions of women from different age, culture and religious background are after one thing “looking and feeling beautiful”. Also, the numbers of the thousands and millions of followers of the beauty blogs, videos and images show that “beauty” unifies (breaks all the barriers) women no matter what their language, culture and religion is. Women from all around the world are
“millions of women from different age, culture and religious background” there for this same reason (looking beautiful). Whether this means shopping for different brands, polishing their skills in makeup or following certain trends, one thing is certain that social media have made everything easily accessible to all of us.
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A girl in Japan or in Brazil might be rocking the same look within minutes. The look is immediately shared with the world (#selfie) via image application tool: Instagram.
relationship between the cosmetic brands and their customers. The power is on the hands of the consumer now. Conusmers test the product, critique and share them with the world immediately. It is also noticabel that the brands are responding to A recent research by Dove, states that these changes. more women are turning to social media to search for reviews on beauty than the While we are all experiencing the major magazines. Dove, also highlights that the transformetion with social media from customer is after an honest review from a economics, to politics, to the way small more approachable individual than the gi- and large businesses are run the immediant company itself. ate benefits of having instant access is apparent: for those who are extremely sucThe beauty business in YouTube and oth- cessfull at getting the message accross in er social media channels has changed the 140 digits. In the coming pages you will be meeting some of the successfull bloggers, and YouTubers in beauty/ “the business in YouTube Instagrammers fashion with millions of global followers.
and other social media channels has changed the relationship between the company and their customers�
They all come from differnt parts of the world with their own unique approach in their own languages. But they share the same passion and professionalism. What makes them successfull is they are extrramely great at sharing some part of their their personality in minutes with the world which makes them relatable to millions.
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www.tanyaburr.com
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Photography by Bill Smith
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Tanya Burr From Clinique beauty counter to cele brity red carpet - Tanya Burr is one of th e UK ’s leading YouTube beauty V log g e r and Blogger with over two million s u b scribers to her channel and thousands of visitors to her blog on daily bases. S h e had started her career as a make up a rt ist with MAC and gained experience a t NARS, Clinique and with other make u p brands. Just over four years ago she h a s launched her beauty channel in YouTu b e and gained huge crowd of loyal foll owers with time. Tanya’s talent as a make u p artist as well as her welcoming, f rien dly, genuinely kind personality is dr awing the attention to international crowd . The great success of Tanya is not lim ite d to millions of followers, she has launch e d her own make up and lipgloss line at th e end of 2013. Her products are availa b le at Superdrug in the UK and Feeluniq u e. com with international shipping.
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www.heyclaire.com
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Photography by Claire Marshall
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Claire Marshall Beauty blogger (heyclaire.com) a n d make up artist f rom Californ ia . Claire brings an edge to the a lready crowded market in YouTu b e. Her unique and f un personality is one of the reasons of her ne a rly half a million followers. Af ter se eing the implacable editing qu a lity in her v ideos one can tell that s h e is a perf ectionist.
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www.fashionhippieloves.com
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Photography by Anni
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Anni 25 years old Annie (FashionHippieLoves.com) f rom Germany h a s an eclectic sty le and she is on e of the f ew girls out there, no matte r what the season and trends a re can alway s rock a bold lips tick . Her blog and sty le is very we ll recogniz ed internationally.
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Photography by Christina Bazan
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Christina Bazan The founder of K ay ture.com is a beautif ul Russian girl liv ing in Switz erland. If you a regular fol lower of her blog you will notice that she is contently on the go b u t still manages to look immaculate in every occasion. She has collabo ra t ed with amazing high-end bra n d s on the market and she is well kn own in the business.
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Photography by Meriç Küçük
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Meriç Küçük At the age of 25 she is the fou n der of Maritsa.co, co-foun d e r of Apartment11.co and in te rnationally recogniz ed blo g g e r in Turkey. Her blog and style brings Californian wibe with oriental inf luence to the m a rket.
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Photography by Camila Coelho
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Camila Coelho Camila is a Brazilan living in N ew York. Along with her blog Cam ila runs her Brazilian and E nglish channels in YouTube that altoge th er has over two million followe rs. Her style is vibrant and she h a s extremely f riendly approach th a t makes her easily relatable.
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Photography by Sarper Kesim
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Duygu ĹženyĂźrek Duy gu is a mother f rom Turkey, with an impacable smile that in stantly engages you to her b log. When you browse through the p a ges of her blog you will notice th a t she loves v ibrant colors and b old lip color. As well as her beauty a n d f ashion blog, she is also a succe ssf ull style consultant.
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Photography by Soraya Bakhtiar
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Soraya Bakhtiar Soraya is an Iranian living in London with unique perspec tive. Soraya worked for E lle UK a n d Olivia Palermo’s blog. Her b log s attacts many for a simplistic a pproach. Soraya is a London C ollege of Fashion graduate.
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Photography by Andy Torress
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The City of Hope, over 600 years of History, Passion and more... Last week, I happened to listen one of the old songs sung by Sezen Aksu, the most influential female singer in Turkey. The song is called Istanbul, whichbrought back the memories of my teenage years. The song is about a beautiful woman: in this case the city Istanbul. For years, the local artists and musicians always compared this city in many ways to a female.
For centuries she has been attracted to the Emperors from Byzantines, Ottoman Sultans and now the world is dying to see and experience her beauty. Her irresistible attractiveness to many comes from its complex, layered past – its harems and mosques, and cemeteries and bazaars - but for me she’s intriguing as an image of the future.
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“I have never seen a beauty like you” says the song Istanbul is probably one of the most con- age phase while trying to understand tradictive cities in the world. The contra- whom she really was or whom she really dictions starts from 600 years of history wants to be with – trying to fit in Europe, - converting from Christianity to Islam, and Asia. from being right in the centre of Asia and Europe where the cultural bridge lays - This is the period when Istanbul is learnand it is even more obvious on the streets ing to be herself. Rather than hiding her when you see a women covered in burca imperfections towards the outside world walks side by side with a blond girl with she has learned to be different - to accept mini skirtduring day and even embrace her time. Night life is no dif- “to accept and even contradictions, her ferent but yet complex, imperfections, her inoffering belly danced embrace her contra- ner and cultural beauoriental entertainment dictions, her imper- ty, and her unique with Salsa or Argentinqualities that makes fections, her inner ian type of nightlife on her special and most the same street. Prayers and cultural beauty” importantly attracare calling from minative. She has learned rets, while watermelon to embrace her past martinis is drunk through the night. and is learning to define her future. She is learning not to find excuses for being She is the one that can breed a Nobel who she is anymore but defining who Price winner Novelist like Orhan Pamuk she wants to be. This never ending transwhile imprison journalist for their views formations and contradictions makes and expressions. her that special, in so many ways is difficult to put into words – you just need to I guess she had spent quite a long teen- experience “her” yourself.
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“made me feel like I was part of something special” This is how she was described by the Mexican born fashion blogger, Anna Torres, living in Amsterdam, who recently visited the city: “I guess its hard to explain the feeling you get when you are there, specially when you are from a completely different culture, a completely different
part of the world. It is basically a market, but the experience of being there was truly special for me. Colours everywhere, people, scents, call to prayer chants echoing on the walls of the hallways, gave me chills, made me feel like I was a part of something different, no matter your religion or beliefs, it was very special.”
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she is into fashion It is extraordinary to think that Istanbul has only been introduced with the elite fashion magazine VOGUE just over four years ago - since fashion weeks have been the heart of the city. As a major manufacturing hub to high- and low -end fashion brands, in the past she has proven to be practical but non-stylish. Nowadays, this
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is changing rapidly, although she has a long way to catch up with the likes of Paris, London and New York. However, with the fast growing fashion bloggers and designers that are looking up to their idols - the city is on the course to find her own fashion style.
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she is into art İstanbul Modern, aka Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, is a museum of contemporary art in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul. Inaugurated on December 11, 2004, the museum prominently features the work of Turkish artists. But then what is Turkish art? Aspiring and upcoming artists like Ataman. One British critic reviewing a 2010 retrospective of his work at the Istanbul Modern said that Ataman was “one of the few artists of any nationality whose work I’d travel anywhere in the world to see.” But that retrospective, “The Enemy Inside Me,” might have been the first time Turks encountered
his work: a video of himself dressed in belly-dancer drag, dancing; four largescreen videos side by side of women speaking simultaneously about why they wear wigs; an interview with an elderly Armenian woman struggling to regain her memory. The artist Kutlug Ataman in his interview with New York Times said he always longed to return to Turkey, but he was sceptical of the art he sees in Istanbul: “A great majority of the work consists of imitations of Western gestures. Their reference is New York and London.” It is yet another reflection of contradictions. Perhaps one day she will also win this struggle to be herself in art.
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Since the ancient Greek, beauty has always been associated with having white skin, blond hair and tall skinny figure. Are things really changing now in the 21st rating in a rarefied and often bizarre world. century multicultural society. This has been a most valuable vantage point for what ‘beautiful’ does, and doesn’t mean. The actress Thandie Newton and make-up Beneath the myths I’ve helped create, I’ve artist Kay Montano are learned a lot about gold pots the founder of multiculat the end of rainbows betural beauty site thendiecause I’ve polished, painted kay.com, which was deand gilded them. Although scribed as “liberation, successful, it was never a celebration and living place I felt much belonging, life to the full”. They both but meeting and getting to strongly believe the need know Thandie has coinfor celebrating color and cided with, and cemented this is how Kay describes a belief that beauty can be it “Being a make-up artist from the age of 16 more of an inclusive word, bigger and kinder has given me a lot of access to ‘the beautiful than most media might suggest. I have to say people’ and I’ve earned my living collabo- that Thandie’s epiphany is also mine.
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“It can be used to erase or embrace cultural diversity” Make-up can mask, enhance and disguise. It can accentuate the good or the bad, can be obvious or invisible. It can be used to erase or embrace cultural diversity, perhaps even be a self-affirming ritual of our growing years.”… Walking through the make up counters, I have recently started to pay attention to the color range available in the highend make-up counters. For instance CHANEL beauty is only catering to light and medium skintones, the darker shades are quite rare to find. MAC is the brand that offering extensive selection of colour choices over 150 shades of eyeshadow and over 160 shades of lipstick - and also includes fragrance, nail polish, accessories and skin care catering for everyone. MAC is the goto brand to achieve any make-up look you can imagine. The intention behind the Toronto based creators of the brand is to create
a make up line for “all ages, all races, and all sexes”. Which has become company’s motto since. To emphasize this over the years their advertising campaigns featured the celebrities like RuPaul, Sandra Bernhard, Raquel Welch, Eartha Kitt, Elton John, Missy Elliott and Dita von Teese and most recently their collaboration with the singer/songwriter Rihanna for Riri Woo Collection in 2013. Since 1970’s when the first African American women was shoot with model Beverly Johnson in August 1975 for the cover of VOGUE the beauty industry have come a long way. But again in the 21st century, more cosmetics companies should have shared the vision of MAC. They could be more considerate and appreciate the individuality and self-expression of women by overcoming the colour and see (try to reach) the kind, loving, passionate, “beautiful women” around the world.
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Model Adriana Santos from Brazil Photography and Make up by Aynur Erin Kara
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I t is the time of the year that grey clouds
are fast running away and sun showing its warm face upon us. Women in the UK are running to cosmetic and make up counters to find out about the new product releases (summer edition) from their favorite brands. This rush is to make them even more beautiful during the warm summer months.
son has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and the other from the University of Oxford. Perhaps, a pride that no other women has achieved at least in Turkey. A sacrifice that was made for the right course or is it?
Hamide’s sacrifice in make up and skin care are paying off, two generations later. Her 16 years old granddaughter, Çağla (Ferhat’s It is unbelievable to think that when women daughter) has all the access from the latest with the economic power and freedom can from the seasonal make up trends to highhave 15 lipsticks in similar shades in their end cosmetics in Espark shopping mall in make up bags in some part of the world, a central Anatolian city of Eskişehir. Çağla while in Africa and Asia or other parts of mentioned that she follows all the latest the world women live below poverty lines trends in make up via Instagram. She then and possibly have never consults with her mum had an access to a make up for permission to buy few “make up might kit in their lives. Accordevery month. “But always ing to Organisation for seem a sacrifice a string attached” Çağla Economic Co-operation adds, slightly moaning, and Development (OECD) from the feelings of as she is allowed to use women represent more how it feels like to be make up only during spethan 70% of the world’s cial occasions or over the poor due to unequal access dressed up woman” weekend, when there is no to economic opportunities school. in both developed and developing countries. Even nowadays, there The 76 years old Hamide Kara is a pure ex- are millions of women around the world ample of one of those millions of women – with the unheard stories of lives with bashe is from a small village from the Black sic needs. Hamide’s story has paid off years Sea Coast region of Turkey. Does that mean later. There will be other stories that all the she is not beautiful? strong women with beautiful personalities, who will sacrifice the skincare and make up, Her inner beauty is overpowering her wrin- but their inner beauty will make more stokled face but you could see in her eyes she ries like Hamide that will inspire the young is one the most beautiful women you might generations for years. come across. Deprived of access to make up might seem a sacrifice from the feelings of We do not need to hear more such stories how it feels like to be dressed up woman. for the giant cosmetic companies to reach Indeed she made the ultimate sacrifice by out women like Hamide. Make up is not a raising 6 children and putting all her energy necessity for beauty but for some it is a right and effort into their education. One of her for self expression.
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“You can be goergous at thirty, charming at fourty and irresistable for the rest of your life�
Coco Chanel
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