A close up of lips, bold and full, with lipstick being applied, that bright pink red color standing out. But the whole thing is covered in heavy digital glitches, code, and broken pixels bleeding across the skin.

It’s like me trying to feel beautiful, trying to do something soft and feminine in the middle of all this noise. Even something as simple as putting on lipstick now happens inside the machine. The lips are still real, still human, still wanting to look good, but the code is right there on them, trying to take over.

This piece is about how even our most personal, tender moments, getting ready, feeling ourselves, are now mixed with the digital world. Still, the color stays. The lips stay. We still try to look beautiful even when everything is glitching.