Taya Hailey specialises within the editorial fashion industry, taking part in professional photoshoots focusing on alternative fashion and culture. With a keen interest in diverse subcultures and exploring hair and make-up through various different shoots, she creates a range of individual and bold looks. Within these display images, she explores beauty and fashion through period-inspired make-ups and stylised fantasy, which have been published within digital and print magazines.

The first three images showcase her specialist practice unit, in which she created an editorial shoot that looked upon creating a sensual gothic vampire look, taking inspiration from Gothic and Victorian fashion and explored into the aesthetics of body modifications. This included creating 14 arm prosthetics, eight chest prosthetics and two lip prosthetics to create the illusion of body modifications, as well as hand-sewn hair extensions, and the use of velvet fibres through blood and lipstick to integrate these gothic fashion ideas into the make-up. This look was then published within the digital and print magazine, Swanky Spellbound.

The next five images are all from her final project, in which she created diverse brand imagery, combining fantasy characters and beauty editorial shoots to represent the brand Monster High. Taya created multiple hair extensions for multiple models, as well as a re-fronted and styled wig, 11 prosthetic tattoos, four hand-knotted postiche and unique hair and make-up designs and applications. This cohesive set of images displays Taya’s ability to create diverse looks on a variety of models.

The final image is from an on set photoshoot, where Taya created a romantic '80s inspired look for an editorial photoshoot.