Body ART

With zips, power plugs, laces and buttons adorning their bodies, these young models look like something out of a traveling freak show.

But they are in fact the latest walking exhibits of Japanese artist Chooo-San's incredible illusionary make-up art.

Bored with digitally enhanced pictures, the 19-year-old student decided to see how far she could push her limits without technology - with impressive results.

Japanese college student and artist, Choo-San, has created more incredible makeup art illusions on people's bodies

Using only acrylic paints, these amazingly realistic images are enough to make anyone look twice.

Chooo-San, a first year student at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, garnered attention in June when she painted misplaced mouths, extra eyes and eerie robotic extras to the human body.

For her second tranche of work, she painted lifelike zips, buttons and shoes laces to skin of her willing friends to give the illusion they are bursting at the seams.

Using only acrylic paints, these amazingly realistic images are enough to make anyone look twice.

Using no digital-editing, the bizarre body-modifications are painstakingly applied using just paint, and they no doubt give passers-by a fright.

Chooo-San discovered her talent after doodling eyes on the back of her own hand during breaks from studying for university admission exams.

But it soon evolved to painting on other people and creating creepy effects such as adding multiple facial and robotic-style features.

Chooo-San explains: 'I don't really have a reason why I started doing those pictures. But I guess I was a little sick of everyone making pictures with their computers and wanted to see how far I can go without those technologies such as Photoshop.

'My works are all done with acrylic paints. They are all painted on skin directly and I don't use computers or anything to change the picture afterwards.'