Barbie-Like Makeovers for Milan Fashion Week Models

Britt Aboutaleb
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How do you stand out amongst a sea of bare faces and natural hair? By turning your models into Barbies. That’s what designer Jeremy Scott did for his second Moschino collection, shown in Milan on Thursday.  

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New York fashion week’s distaste for color reached its peak on the last day, when Marc Jacobs sent his army of models out wearing shaggy black wigs and moisturizer. In London, there was a red lip at Burberry and a smoky eye at Tom Ford, but once the fashion pack hit Milan it was back to no makeup. Even the traditionally sultry Gucci embraced a bare face. Which is why makeup artist Lucia Pieroni’s “waxy-gloss” faces made such a splash. She told T Magazine that she wanted the models’ faces to look “like a luxury plastic, but elegant.” MAC’s Mineralize Skinfinish ($32) lent the wax-like finish (to cheeks and limbs) while two sets of lashes (of differing lengths) were used “for extra fluffiness.”

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As for those spot-on pink lips, Pieroni told Marie Claire UK that she mixed MAC’s Lipmix in Magenta, White, and Yellow ($15). “Together they give the lips a real sugary pink, matte finish,” she says. “On its own it’s actually quite wearable, but being Barbie it needs to be glossy so we’re coating it with gloss right at the very end.”

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Meanwhile, hair stylist Paul Hanlon did something we definitely wouldn’t recommend trying at home: he used three separate wigs to build each retro Malibu Barbie-like bouffant.