What does not kill me, makes me stronger. Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
Lipstick portraits of Lila Brik (2012)

1 lipstick on paper Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

2 lipstick on paper Lila Brik by Lena Hades. Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

3 lipstick on paper, Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

4 lipstick on paper, Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

5 lipstick on paper, Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

6 lipstick on paper, Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

7 lipstick on paper, Lila Brik by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,
Frida Kahlo lipstick and pencil portraits (2014)

portrait made by two different lipsticks, Frida Kahlo by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

lipstick on paper -- Frida Kahlo by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

pencil on paper, Frida Kahlo by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

lipstick on paper, Frida Kahlo by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

lipstick on paper, Frida Kahlo by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,

lipstick on paper, Frida Kahlo by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,
Russian and Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky

lipstick on paper, 20x29 cm, 2012, Vladimir Mayakovsky by Lena Hades, Lena Hades, Лена Хейдиз,
Your thoughts,dreaming on a softened brain,
like an over-fed lackey on a greasy settee,
with my heart's bloody tatters I'll mock again;
impudent and caustic, I'll jeer to superfluity.
Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
there's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might of my voice,
I go by – handsome,twenty-two-year-old.
Вашу мысль
мечтающую на размягченном мозгу,
как выжиревший лакей на засаленной кушетке,
буду дразнить об окровавленный сердца лоскут:
досыта изъиздеваюсь, нахальный и едкий.
У меня в душе ни одного седого волоса,
и старческой нежности нет в ней!
Мир огромив мощью голоса,иду
– красивый,двадцатидвухлетний.