Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The “Wooden puppet doll” makeup illusion by Mirjana Kika Milosevic
At first glance, your eyes only allow you to see a wooden doll head and torso attached by a spring to a stationary box. Looks can be deceiving, as the expert Serbian body painter Mirjana Kika Milosevic shows in this start-to-finish video. In it, you can watch her redefining lines of her body, retexturing her skin to look like polished wood, and transforming into a beautifully freaky marionette.
Mirjana Kika Milosevic is a professional creative make up artist and skin illusionist from Serbia. She works on body painting and face painting for movies and music videos, as well as murals and interior or exterior designs. Incredibly skilled, she won the national NYX Face Awards competition in the optical illusion category. The “Wooden puppet doll” is probably her most famous project so far.
Background:
Kika Mirjana Milosevic was born in Smederevo in 1982 to parents who have admitted that they often found her drawing first before she could walk. From the very beginning, the main difference that sets her apart from other artists is that she was never interested in painting canvasses. Instead, she found herself immersed in a world of painting in different surfaces.
She created her first life-sized Mural at the age of 11. By the time she was 27, she became the most popular children's muralist in Serbia under the moniker, Supermama. She has since developed a passion for children's paintings.
her desire to become better and find herself, found her finishing corrective makeup school where she received her title of professional makeup artist.
She is a skin illusionist that teaches courses in children's facepainting, film and music releases.
She won an Oscars in a serbian Fantasy film Festival for directing and makeup. She became the first beauty Vlogger of the year for Serbia.
The “Wooden puppet doll” makeup illusion by Mirjana Kika Milosevic
At first glance, your eyes only allow you to see a wooden doll head and torso attached by a spring to a stationary box. Looks can be deceiving, as the expert Serbian body painter Mirjana Kika Milosevic shows in this start-to-finish video. In it, you can watch her redefining lines of her body, retexturing her skin to look like polished wood, and transforming into a beautifully freaky marionette.
Mirjana Kika Milosevic is a professional creative make up artist and skin illusionist from Serbia. She works on body painting and face painting for movies and music videos, as well as murals and interior or exterior designs. Incredibly skilled, she won the national NYX Face Awards competition in the optical illusion category. The “Wooden puppet doll” is probably her most famous project so far.
Background:
Kika Mirjana Milosevic was born in Smederevo in 1982 to parents who have admitted that they often found her drawing first before she could walk. From the very beginning, the main difference that sets her apart from other artists is that she was never interested in painting canvasses. Instead, she found herself immersed in a world of painting in different surfaces.
She created her first life-sized Mural at the age of 11. By the time she was 27, she became the most popular children's muralist in Serbia under the moniker, Supermama. She has since developed a passion for children's paintings.
her desire to become better and find herself, found her finishing corrective makeup school where she received her title of professional makeup artist.
She is a skin illusionist that teaches courses in children's facepainting, film and music releases.
She won an Oscars in a serbian Fantasy film Festival for directing and makeup. She became the first beauty Vlogger of the year for Serbia.
