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If you liked Paradise Kiss (or Ai Yasawa's work), fashion, makeup, this is for you. The art is delightful, it is different from a common shounen, it's delicate and gives you that feeling of reading something about art, like blue period. The characters are very well designed with a style of their own. Even if it hasn't focused much on clothing, I think it will later on, cause one of our main characters wanna become a model, nevertheless, what has been shown about fashion is beautiful.

The plot is about two students who, after working together at a school's festival, realize their true aspirations. Aia is ... a exmodel, who is into makeup, but during his time as a model he was led to believe that he had no talent to be a makeup artist, after that, he left his model career as well as makeup become a hobby for him.

After the festival, he realized that he's into makeup, he wanna become a makeup artist, even if it means going throught a lot of complications: the time he spent without practicing, competition against more experienced people, the feeling of being inferior.

In the other hand, we have Sumisaki, a tall girl with freckles who is an introvert and doesn't have confidence in herself, but when she met Aia, her world's vision and herself changed completely. A highlight is how she accepts and loves what were once her insecurities (the panels about this are super cute TT)

Even if you aren't into fashion, it's a good manga with interesting characters and a nice plot.

Exceptionally fantastic art with rich colours is the main standout of the manga, and it’s really hard to believe this is the authors first manga (if I’m not mistaken).

Plot is decent if not dragging slightly after the first chapter, but hey it’s only been a few months since it’s started as I’m writing this review.

The romance is refreshing not only because it isn’t the main focus (it’s a lot more focused on their individual lives and dreams) but because Aya and jun are subversive in their masculinity and femininity, but not in the usual femdom style seen in a lot of mangas(no offence ... to that genre ofc, that’s some good shit, but the boyish-girl-quiet-guy dynamic is really well portrayed in this manga).

Overall, stunning art, decent plot, incredible chemistry. 8/10

-written at CH.11