“It’s a forties-era woman who’s traveled to the French Riviera and has been kissed by the sun,” Lancôme artistic director of makeup Aaron De Mey said of the L’Wren Scott face for Spring. “She’s pretty but she’s not too cosmetic or perfect—she’s a rock ‘n’ roll duchess,” he added. De Mey achieved this ideal by [...]

I try not to play favorites when it comes to products because a big part of my job is to remain open to the countless new lipsticks, blushes, face cleansers, shampoos, and the like that cross my desk on a daily basis. But there are, of course, certain things that have secured permanent places in [...]

“She wanted something a little disheveled and deconstructed, so I imagined an exaggerated version of her,” celebrity coiffing star Serge Normant said of the texturized, side-sweeping strands he created for L’Wren Scott’s Fall show. “I’m using a lot of my dry shampoo,” Normant added, referring to his recently launched Meta Revive Dry Shampoo with Cedar [...]

After Fall’s barefaced beauty moment, we were thrilled to see so much colorful makeup last week in New York. And with day four of London fashion week almost wrapped up, it seems brights are going to be very big indeed for Spring—particularly on eyes. To better serve Mary Katrantzou’s stellar digitized prints, face painter Val [...]

The eclectic palette of the Serengeti plains inspired the makeup look backstage at L’Wren Scott, where Lancôme creative director of makeup Aaron De Mey debuted something special for the occasion: 12 different matte texture pigment pots in shades like deep amethyst, midnight blue, sea green, teal, saffron, and red, which he meticulously brushed onto models’ [...]

A “glittery splashy short film” is what the folks at NOWNESS are calling their latest fashion video, which features the sparkly stylings of Lancôme creative director Aaron De Mey. The makeup artist sure does love a glossy finish; get a load of the jewel-toned eye shadows and individual Swarovski crystals glued onto model Eniko Mihalik’s [...]

As we’ve already established on this blog, we love us some milkmaid braids. But what do we love even more than seeing these thick hair coronets in well-executed real life? Seeing them on Lara Stone in glossy form, paired with expertly crafted makeup courtesy of Aaron De Mey, Lancôme’s artistic director for makeup. The June/July [...]

What do you get when you cover Daria Werbowy in bronzing fluid and experiment with a range of sparkly lipsticks and shimmering eye shadows? If you’re makeup artist Aaron De Mey, you get pure editorial perfection, as evidenced by his latest spread for Paris Vogue. The Lancôme artistic director of makeup has a way with [...]

We’ve been devoting much of our time and blogosphere space for the last week and a half to giving you an insider’s perspective on the hair and makeup looks from New York fashion week and beyond. Today, we’d like to give a shout-out to the skincare secret weapons that makeup artists rely on to keep [...]

Despite last season’s brow heroics, in which blocked-out arches and fuller-framed styles made repeat catwalk appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, we haven’t seen much of either look in New York this week. Until yesterday, that is, when both Narciso Rodriguez and The Row’s Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen decided to put the focus back [...]