These 8 album covers painted on a face are awesome and terrifying

by Tyler Munro

May 15, 2014

People express their love of music in different ways. Isac Walter collects band shirts by the thousands, while Raymond Chang runs a store that only sells copies of The White Album. For her fandom, Natalie Sharp is somewhere in the middle.

Like that shiny new band tattoo you definitely won’t regret in ten years, Sharp expresses her love of music visually, but in a far less permanent fashion: face paint.

Sharp says a friend suggested she paint records on her face for Record Store Day after complaining that she never had the weekend off because she was “always face painting,” and the results are absolutely stunning, if not a little terrifying (we’re looking at you, Remain in Light).

“These are not my top eight albums, I don’t believe in that crap, but they are eight very inspiring and spectacular albums that I keep returning to,” explained Sharp. “Each face took between 3 – 6 hours to paint. I cried after finishing Grizzly Bear, I thought it had broken me.”

Even more impressive, she notes that she doesn’t use stencils, meaning every one of these were done entirely freehand. See the full collection below.