Makeup artist grooms corpses for a living

Thung showing her makeup kit. In it are various tools and cosmetic items, of the conventional and unconventional kind, which she uses to groom and beautify her customers - the dead.

DESPITE numerous attempts, makeup artist Thung Siew Ching just could not get the eyebrows of her customer right despite the two hours that had passed.

“I kept trying and trying. It was either the wrong colour or that the colour just would not stay on her brows.