At a funeral, if your loved one in the coffin appears as if they are simply sleeping peacefully, it may alleviate your grief.
This is what Kotoko Sato, a funeral makeup artist, aims for when she cleans up the deceased with cosmetics specially made for them. Together with the beauty-products maker Falf Inc., Sato developed the makeup line in 2006 and since then has been teaching aspiring morticians in Japan how to give the deceased a final makeover.
Before specializing in funeral makeup, Sato worked until 2002 as a graphic designer and makeup artist in New York after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in the city.