Chloé Shares the Makeup Trick for Zero Sleep
It's just before 8 am in Paris, and models-big ones, the kind with Wikipedia pages-are creeping into the Grand Palais for their Chloé call time. They're on their fourth week of fashion shows, their third time zone, and their zillionth cup of coffee. And though it's their job to look impossibly amazing at every waking moment... well...part of what makes them so beautiful is that they're only human.
Enter Aaron de Mey, famed makeup artist with a Wiki of his own. After dabbing concealer and a bit of anti-shine primer onto the girls' skin, he takes M.A.C's Eye Kohl in Teddy and smudges it softly through the lower lid's waterline, blurring the color onto the outer edges. "You're using it just like a black eyeliner pencil," he explains, "but because it's brown, it's a tougher, cooler take on the look... and by using a pure brown, a chocolate brown, you're avoiding any redness in the eyes or under eye circles that make you look tired." De Mey skips mascara ("too glamorous for this look"), and adds a touch of highlighter underneath bottom lashes to further illuminate skin.
Meanwhile on the hair front, Eugene Souleiman admits that the way to get the show's messy, textured, tomboy-inspired hair involves one key product: water. "We want it to look like they haven't [washed] their hair in a two or three days," he explains. "We want it free, and loose...I've used a bit of moisturizing spray at the ends, but then really left it alone. We want it to look a little messed up."
If you're thinking these quick tricks only work on models and celebrity offspring, take note: Chloé designer Clare Waight Keller, a working mother of two, sported the look for her final bow. And though we'd bet a Drew Bag she pulled an all-nighter before the show, she looked anything but "messed up" at this morning's catwalk.
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