13 NOVEMBER 2026 | 15:00-15:45 (HKT/UTC+8)
Living Ornament | Body Painting Live Demo
Body painting is a living art. It exists only in the room, on the person, and in that moment.
Karen Yiu brings more than twenty years in professional makeup and body painting to a live oriental-style demo. The body becomes ornament: pattern and figure read as one piece, closer to a ceremonial object than to makeup applied and left behind. The detail is made to be seen in person, where light, distance, and presence change the work. The demo is the work itself.
Porcelain is usually fired, fixed, and kept. This version cannot be. It lasts only while the model stands in it. Once the paint comes off, the object is gone.
PRESENTER
Karen Yiu is a Hong Kong-based professional makeup and styling designer and body-painting artist with more than 20 years of industry experience.
She graduated in 2005 with First Class Honours from the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, in Specialist Makeup Design. Her practice spans fashion, media, stage and bridal makeup, with particular recognition in body painting.
She served as makeup artist for America’s Next Top Model (Macau) and as Makeup Design Director for Cirque du Soleil’s Hangzhou production. In 2015, she founded the Hong Kong Makeup Artist Academy and, in the same year, was awarded First Place in Creative Make-up at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria.
