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Best Makeup Job On A Club Kid - Miranda Moondust

Heavy eyeliner and a pale face just doesn't cut it in New York nightlife. The competition to be fierce is, well, fierce, and it only makes sense that the person with the most creative look in the city's underworld is well equipped to turn his mug into anything he wants. Miranda Moondust is a makeup artist who does a lot more than just splash glitter on his face and call it a day. From the looks of it, he is equally inspired by glam and goth, with carefully shaded eyes that explode in a miasma of color and asymmetrical shapes contouring his cheeks. Sometimes he'll be starkly bare on one side; other times his makeup is more impressive than that goth space alien Marilyn Manson. However he decides to decorate himself, he's never boring.

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Other Bars & Clubs categories:

Best bar to avoid awkward silences with your blind date
Abilene

Best place to watch the Buffalo Sabres
Blue Moon Mexican Café

Manliest beverage to imbibe while enjoying live jazz
Brother Thelonious Belgian-Style Abbey Ale

Best happy hour for silent fatties
Burp Castle

Best Brooklyn sports bar
Cody's Ale House Grill

Best neighborhood bar slated for destruction by Frank Gehry
Freddy's

Best place to fall out of love with a band
Galapagos

Best sparkly bar interior
GoldBar

Best place to see great up-and-coming bands before they embrace their own hype
Goodbye Blue Monday

Best bar for up-and-coming writers
Half King Bar

Best place to mourn the closing of Tonic, Fez, Sin-é, and other small but important live-music venues
Hi-Fi

Best least obnoxious sports bar
Lighthouse Tavern

Best homemade infused vodka
Mama's Bar

Best makeup job on a club kid
Miranda Moondust

Best dog-friendly bar
Moonshine

Best Brooklyn venue rebuilt to look exactly like a Manhattan venue
Music Hall of Williamsburg

Best Irish bartender
Peter O'Connell

Best taxidermy
Red Hook Bait & Tackle

Best stand-up/dance/ burlesque club inside a movie theater
Rififi/Cinema Classics

Best place to find dudes with yellow fever
Six Six Sick

Best late-night $3 West Coast–style taco to eat after you've had too much to drink
Snack Dragon

Best gay bar for slipping ones into a dancer's G-string, old-school style
Stonewall Inn

Best nightclub design
The Box's

Best place for gay men of a certain bent to smoke, cruise, and maybe even get their Wescos polished
The Eagle

Best overpriced cheesy tourist bar
The View Lounge at the Marriott Marquis

Best mass hipster infiltration and subsequent exodus from Harlem
United Palace Theatre

Best art bar on the Lower East Side
Verlaine

Most resoundingly splendid in-House concert food
Warsaw

Best cocktail that's also a hangover cure
Yakitori Totto