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Meet Kodo Nishimura, Japan’s bad ass makeup monk.
Kodo Nishimura is a 26-year-old Buddhist monk from Tokyo, Japan. He completed his training and officially became a monk in 2015, but…
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…He also lives a double life as a makeup artist whose clients include the Miss Universe Pageant. Nishimura told BuzzFeed News he decided to start doing makeup when he helped a friend with her makeup and saw how happy it made her.
Buddhist monks are taught not to dress lavishly and he said he did experience a period of doubt about being both a makeup artist and a monk.
But his mentor supported him, telling him, “It isn’t wrong if it helps you deliver your message to people,” Nishimura said.
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