Fashion in Make Up during New Romantic movement

 From 1980 the New Romantic movement spread gradually in the Blitz, Hell and Billy's, where the club-scene queens Leigh Bowery, Steve Strange, Boy George and Marilyn patented gender-confusing, feminine nightclub faces.
 In 1981 Steve Strange's post-Punk, New Romantic world of frills and furbelows was opposed to the old ethics of the new wave because of its glamour. Although, partly a reaction against dressing down and the image of violence, which Punk had deliberately projected, New Romantics shared the same roots in extreme stylization...
" New Romantic movement was the most radically stylised youth cult since punk".

Boy George says, "With make up I could certainly look exotic".  His creamy porcelain foundation, gloss-red pouting lips, soaring eyebrows and hot-red blush from temple to the hollow of the cheek. Back in 1981 Boy was mistaken for a girl! Since then the tabloids christened him a "gender-bender".
The godfather of New Romantism, David Bowie, peopled his "Ashes to Ashes" video with Blitz club regulars and had a make up artist Richard Sharah paint him as Pierrot with red, magenta and azure eyeshadow, a beauty spot and seagulls painted on his temples.