From Paris Fashion Week: Makeup as Jewelry
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Leave it to Paris to buck the no makeup trend sweeping fashion month. Artists aren’t just layering on the glitter and mascara, they’re taking it one step further, turning makeup into jewelry for your face.
Tom Pecheux kicked off the quirk at Anthony Vacarello, where models weren’t just treated to smudged “second-day glitter” around their eyes, but also had their ears painted. “Anthony came up with the idea to create a piece of jewelry using makeup,” Pecheux told Allure. “I thought, perhaps we don’t do an earring, but a black tattoo—something that felt very graphic, because the collection is graphic.” He drew rigid shapes on each ear lobe with a felt-tip eyeliner pen, before using French pharmacy staple Homeoplasmine to apply iridescent black glitter.
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At Dries Van Noten, makeup artist Peter Philips said the gold line down each model’s lower lip “could be a piercing…it could even look like the shine from a lip gloss.” He used an eyeshadow brush to draw a line with MAC Mixing Medium and Ben Nye Gold Powder, before re-tracing with Make Up For Ever’s Aqua Liner (in #1). Philips told Vogue, “Dries was thinking of the kind of girl who goes to Burning Man. She’s not a hippie, but she loves nature—and she’s also a bit high-tech.”
Thank goodness someone’s finally having fun with makeup—and it’s only day two of Paris Fashion Week.
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