"Remind the world that everyone is beautiful." These are the words of Ilka Brühl - a 32-year-old woman from Germany, who took it upon herself to spread positivity and empowerment by telling her own story.

#10 is too cool.

“They’re my friends for twenty minutes,” says New York City-based photographer Bruce Gilden of the personalities that together make up his newest book Face. Over the past few years, he has collected the countenances of those who spend their lives overlooked and unseen in crowds, visages that when scrutinized, slip from the familiar and banal and over—ever so slightly—into the extraordinary.

People come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, and with varying numbers of appendages. If nothing else, I guess that goes to show...

Design student Tin Gao turns her face into a brilliant canvas.