Korean artist's makeup illusions will bend your mind

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It's hard to figure out where reality ends and begins with Dain Yoon's makeup.

The South Korean artist has an incredibly confusing body of work which she posts to Instagram, where she often creates illusions and blends herself into the scene.



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The artist is a 22-year-old Korean National University of Arts student, according to the Daily Mail.

Although Yoon only started posting her makeup illusions on Instagram under two months ago, she already has over 20,000 followers on the platform, and recently started getting noticed by local TV stations in Seoul.



She even paints herself when she's outside, adding an additional dimension of difficulty to the precise process.


She notes in her Instagram posts that she doesn't use Photoshop for any of the pictures -- all the illusions are IRL.

Here are more mindbending pieces that will take a few plays before you figure out how she's applied the makeup:




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Victoria Ho is Mashable's Asia Editor, based in Singapore. She previously reported on news and tech at The Business Times, TechCrunch and ZDNet. When she isn't writing, she's making music with her band

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