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“A girl should be two things classy and fabulous”

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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.

16 Meet Meriç Küçük

22 Meet Soraya Bakhtiar

5 Beauty Phenomenon

32 Live Life With Colour

14 Meet Christina Bazan

24 She is beautiful - Istanbul

30 She is into Fashion

31 She is into Art

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From the Editor

Welcome to the first issue of the CANVAS Beauty Magazine. In this is-sue, 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 dif-ficult 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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#beautyphenomenonbeauty blogs and social media

According 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 back-ground 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” uni-fies (breaks all the barriers) women no mat-ter what their language, culture and religion is. Women from all around the world are

there for this same reason (looking beauti-ful). Whether this means shopping for dif-ferent brands, polishing their skills in make-up or following certain trends, one thing is certain that social media have made every-thing easily accessible to all of us.

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“millions of women from different age, culture and religious background”

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A girl in Japan or in Brazil might be rock-ing the same look within minutes. The look is immediately shared with the world (#selfie) via image application tool: Insta-gram.

A recent research by Dove, states that more women are turning to social media to search for reviews on beauty than the magazines. Dove, also highlights that the customer is after an honest review from a more approachable individual than the gi-ant company itself.

The beauty business in YouTube and oth-er social media channels has changed the

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 no-ticabel that the brands are responding to these changes.

While we are all experiencing the major transformetion with social media from economics, to politics, to the way small and large businesses are run the immedi-ate benefits of having instant access is ap-parent: for those who are extremely suc-cessfull at getting the message accross in 140 digits. In the coming pages you will be meeting some of the successfull bloggers, Instagrammers and YouTubers in beauty/fashion with millions of global followers.

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 ex-trramely great at sharing some part of their their personality in minutes with the world which makes them relatable to millions.

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“the business in YouTube and other social media channels has changed the relationship be-tween the company and their customers”

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www.tanyaburr.com

Photography by Bill Smith

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Tanya BurrFrom Clinique beauty counter to celeb-ri ty red carpet - Tanya Burr i s one of the UK’s leading YouTube beauty Vlogger and Blogger with over two mil l ion sub-scribers to her channel and thousands of v is i tors to her blog on dai ly bases. She had s tarted her career as a make up art-is t with MAC and gained experience at NARS, Cl inique and with other make up brands. Just over four years ago she has launched her beauty channel in YouTube and gained huge crowd of loyal fol low-ers with t ime. Tanya’s talent as a make up art is t as wel l as her welcoming, fr iend-ly, genuinely kind personali ty i s draw-ing the at tent ion to international crowd. The great success of Tanya is not l imited to mil l ions of fol lowers, she has launched her own make up and l ipgloss l ine at the end of 2013. Her products are avai lable at Superdrug in the UK and Feelunique.com with international shipping.

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www.heyclaire.com

Photography by Claire Marshall

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Claire MarshallBeauty blogger (heyclaire.com) and make up art is t from California. Claire brings an edge to the al-ready crowded market in YouTube. Her unique and fun personali ty i s one of the reasons of her nearly half a mil l ion fol lowers. After see-ing the implacable edi t ing quali ty in her videos one can te l l that she i s a perfect ionis t .

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www.fashionhippieloves.com

Photography by Anni

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Anni25 years old Annie (FashionHip-pieLoves.com) from Germany has an eclect ic s ty le and she i s one of the few gir ls out there, no matter what the season and trends are can always rock a bold l ipst ick. Her blog and s tyle i s very wel l recognized internationally.

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www.kayture.com

Photography by Christina Bazan

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Christina BazanThe founder of Kayture.com is a beautiful Russ ian gir l l iv ing in Switzerland. If you a regular fol-lower of her blog you wil l not ice that she i s content ly on the go but s t i l l manages to look immaculate in every occasion. She has col laborat-ed with amazing high-end brands on the market and she i s wel l known in the business.

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www.maritsa.co

Photography by Meriç Küçük

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Meriç KüçükAt the age of 25 she i s the found-er of Maritsa.co, co-founder of Apartment11.co and inter-nationally recognized blogger in Turkey. Her blog and s tyle brings Californian wibe with oriental inf luence to the mar-ket .

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Camila CoelhoCamila is a Brazi lan l iv ing in New-York. Along with her blog Camila runs her Brazi l ian and English channels in YouTube that al togeth-er has over two mil l ion fol lowers. Her s tyle i s v ibrant and she has extremely fr iendly approach that makes her easi ly relatable.

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Duygu ŞenyürekDuygu is a mother from Turkey, with an impacable smile that in-stantly engages you to her blog. When you browse through the pag-es of her blog you wil l not ice that she loves vibrant colors and bold l ip color. As wel l as her beauty and fashion blog, she i s also a success-ful l s ty le consultant.

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www.sorayabakhtiar.com

Photography by Soraya Bakhtiar

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Soraya BakhtiarSoraya is an Iranian l iv ing in London with unique perspect ive. Soraya worked for Elle UK and Olivia Palermo’s blog. Her blogs at tacts many for a s implis t ic ap-proach. Soraya is a London Col-lege of Fashion graduate.

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Istanbulis

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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 com-pared 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 experi-ence 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-tradictive cities in the world. The contra-dictions starts from 600 years of history - converting from Christianity to Islam, from being right in the centre of Asia and Europe where the cultural bridge lays - and it is even more obvious on the streets when you see a women covered in burca walks side by side with a blond girl with mini skirtduring day time. Night life is no dif-ferent but yet complex, offering belly danced oriental entertainment with Salsa or Argentin-ian type of nightlife on the same street. Prayers are calling from mina-rets, while watermelon martinis is drunk through the night.

She is the one that can breed a Nobel Price winner Novelist like Orhan Pamuk while imprison journalist for their views and expressions.

I guess she had spent quite a long teen-

age phase while trying to understand whom she really was or whom she really wants to be with – trying to fit in Europe, and Asia.

This is the period when Istanbul is learn-ing to be herself. Rather than hiding her imperfections towards the outside world she has learned to be different - to accept

and even embrace her contradictions, her imperfections, her in-ner and cultural beau-ty, and her unique qualities that makes her special and most importantly attrac-tive. She has learned to embrace her past

and is learning to define her future. She is learning not to find excuses for being who she is anymore but defining who she wants to be. This never ending trans-formations and contradictions makes her that special, in so many ways is dif-ficult to put into words – you just need to experience “her” yourself.

“to accept and even embrace her contra-dictions, her imper-fections, her inner and cultural beauty”

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This is how she was described by the Mexican born fashion blogger, Anna Torres, living in Amsterdam, who re-cently visited the city:

“I guess its hard to explain the feeling you get when you are there, specially when you are from a completely dif-ferent culture, a completely different

part of the world. It is basically a mar-ket, but the experience of being there was truly special for me. Colours eve-rywhere, people, scents, call to prayer chants echoing on the walls of the hall-ways, gave me chills, made me feel like I was a part of something different, no matter your religion or beliefs, it was very special.”

“made me feel like I was part of something special”

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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 manufac-turing hub to high- and low -end fashion brands, in the past she has proven to be practical but non-stylish. Nowadays, this

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 artİstanbul Modern, aka Istanbul Mu-seum of Modern Art, is a museum of contemporary art in the Beyoğlu dis-trict of Istanbul. Inaugurated on De-cember 11, 2004, the museum promi-nently features the work of Turkish artists. But then what is Turkish art? Aspiring and upcoming art-ists like Ata-man. One British critic reviewing a 2010 retro-spective of his work at the Is-tanbul Modern said that Ata-man 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 large-screen 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 inter-view 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 West-

ern gestures. Their reference is New York and London.” It is yet another re-flection of contradictions. Perhaps one day she will also win this struggle to be herself in art.

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Are things really changing now in the 21st century multicultural society.

The actress Thandie Newton and make-up artist Kay Montano are the founder of multicul-tural beauty site thendie-kay.com, which was de-scribed as “liberation, celebration and living life to the full”. They both strongly believe the need for celebrating color and this is how Kay describes it “Being a make-up artist from the age of 16 has given me a lot of access to ‘the beautiful people’ and I’ve earned my living collabo-

rating in a rarefied and often bizarre world. This has been a most valuable vantage point for what ‘beautiful’ does, and doesn’t mean. Beneath the myths I’ve helped create, I’ve

learned a lot about gold pots at the end of rainbows be-cause I’ve polished, painted and gilded them. Although successful, it was never a place I felt much belonging, but meeting and getting to know Thandie has coin-cided with, and cemented a belief that beauty can be

more of an inclusive word, bigger and kinder than most media might suggest. I have to say that Thandie’s epiphany is also mine.

“all ages, all races, and all sexes”

Since the ancient Greek, beauty has always been associated with having white skin,

blond hair and tall skinny figure.

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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 avail-able in the high-end make-up coun-ters. For instance CHANEL beauty is only catering to light and medium skintones, the dark-er shades are quite rare to find. MAC is the brand that offer-ing extensive selec-tion of colour choic-es 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 go-to brand to achieve any make-up look you can imagine. The intention behind the To-ronto 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 ad-vertising campaigns featured the celebri-ties 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 John-son in August 1975 for the cover of VOGUE the beauty industry have come a long way. But again in the 21st

century, more cosmet-ics companies should have shared the vision of MAC. They could be more considerate and appreciate the individuality and self-ex-pression of women by overcoming the col-our and see (try to reach) the kind, loving, passionate, “beautiful women” around the world.

www.mac.com

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Photography and Make up by Aynur Erin Kara

Model Adriana Santos from Brazil

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It 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 coun-ters to find out about the new product re-leases (summer edition) from their favorite brands. This rush is to make them even more beautiful during the warm summer months.

It is unbelievable to think that when women with the economic power and freedom can have 15 lipsticks in similar shades in their make up bags in some part of the world, while in Africa and Asia or other parts of the world women live below poverty lines and possibly have never had an access to a make up kit in their lives. Accord-ing to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) women represent more than 70% of the world’s poor due to unequal access to economic opportunities in both developed and de-veloping countries.The 76 years old Hamide Kara is a pure ex-ample of one of those millions of women – she is from a small village from the Black Sea Coast region of Turkey. Does that mean she is not beautiful?

Her inner beauty is overpowering her wrin-kled face but you could see in her eyes she is one the most beautiful women you might come across. Deprived of access to make up might seem a sacrifice from the feelings of how it feels like to be dressed up woman. Indeed she made the ultimate sacrifice by raising 6 children and putting all her energy and effort into their education. One of her

son has a PhD from the University of Cam-bridge 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 daughter) has all the access from the latest from the seasonal make up trends to high-end cosmetics in Espark shopping mall in a central Anatolian city of Eskişehir. Çağla mentioned that she follows all the latest trends in make up via Instagram. She then

consults with her mum for permission to buy few every month. “But always a string attached” Çağla adds, slightly moaning, as she is allowed to use make up only during spe-cial occasions or over the weekend, when there is no school.

Even nowadays, there are millions of women around the world with the unheard stories of lives with ba-sic needs. Hamide’s story has paid off years later. There will be other stories that all the strong women with beautiful personalities, who will sacrifice the skincare and make up, but their inner beauty will make more sto-ries like Hamide that will inspire the young generations for years.

We do not need to hear more such stories for the giant cosmetic companies to reach out women like Hamide. Make up is not a necessity for beauty but for some it is a right for self expression.

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“You can be goergous at thirty, charming at fourty and irresistable for the rest of your life”

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