Last weekend, the Lisboa Makeup School students had their final course exam. Nine talented girls led by the amazing makeup artist Miguel Molena spent the whole Sunday working their way into the makeup world in a basement of an office building in the central Avenida da Liberdade.

The challenge was to sketch far and below from a skyscraper. But conventional tall buildings are scarce in this capital city, and not very suitable places to sketch from, so I opted to lead the participants to one of Lisboa’s own alternative skyscrapers – the Nossa Senhora do Monte vantage point.