As a makeup artist in the adult film industry, Melissa Murphy has transformed hundreds of men and women into sex gods and bombshells.
She chronicles their remarkable transformations on Instagram, where she has over 109,000 followers.
Murphy describes her work as "liquid confidence." We prefer "cosmetic sorcery."
Over the summer, we spent the day with Murphy on set of a porn shoot in Calabasas, California, to see what it takes to get these actresses camera-ready and feeling their best.
On a cloudless morning in Porn Valley, a sun-drenched region of southern California where an estimated 90% of American sex films are made, workers file into a white stucco ranch house on a hill.
Source: USA Today
I figure I'm in the right place based on the boxes of burned candles by the door ...
... and the room of mattresses and bed frames I pass through.
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