Backstage at Donna Karan and Anna Sui’s Spring shows, makeup artist and Cover Girl creative director Pat McGrath took us on a quick run through some of the bigger launches she’s got planned for the brand this year. Particularly noteworthy was the new Blast collection, featuring LashBlast Length Mascara, which is cleverly designed with product [...]

Spending a concentrated amount of time pulling backstage duty each season, we have noticed a few secret weapons in makeup artists’ kits. Cosmetics, after all, can only go so far on their own. Tubs of Vaseline and tins of Smith’s Rosebud Salve make frequent appearances from New York to Paris, since, when combined with an [...]

Harking back to one of her favorite moments in time, Anna Sui ordered a familiar sixties-era beauty look for her Spring presentation yesterday. “We’re going to the Mod circus,” makeup artist Pat McGrath laughed as she applied black eyeliner and Twiggy-inspired spider lashes to models’ lids with heavy strokes of CoverGirl LashBlast. McGrath also dabbed [...]

With so many gift bags, on-site manis, and transitional “night makeup” applications to be had last night, I decided the best way to cover a lot of ground was to stick to one neighborhood. So for convenience reasons, I chose Soho and made my first stop Anna Sui on Greene Street. I naturally gravitated toward [...]

Anna Sui’s cosmetics range became a favorite with beauty gurus and editors alike when it debuted almost ten years ago. After disappearing for a while due to some unresolved licensing “issues,” the collection of brightly colored, boudoir-inspired eye shadows, lip glosses, and nail lacquers has been in slow-moving comeback mode (elaborate “beauty bars” were erected [...]

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Anna Sui’s first foray into cosmetics and fragrance, a suite was set up backstage at her show last night, displaying the full color line and collection of perfumes. The rose-scented makeup went M.I.A for a little while, but it’s back in full effect with five new lip glosses, five [...]

Despite sporting a longer coif equipped with vision-impairing fringe these days, model Agyness Deyn is not necessarily forgoing the short spiky hair that helped give her “super” status. “I just haven’t gotten it cut in a while,” Deyn explained to us backstage at Anna Sui in her northern English accent. “It is so long now, [...]

During the Spring show season, designers often pass down a “warm” mandate to the makeup artist in charge backstage. This is why, aside from a few rogue dissenters, you frequently see a bevy of rosy cheeks walking down the runway come September. Spring 2009 was no exception to this general rule, although in a particularly [...]

In addition to the usual fare backstage at Anna Sui last night—models, mayhem, and mini-burgers, if craft services is really on its game—a “beauty bar” was set up to display the designer’s makeup range. While you may be familiar with a few choice items from Sui’s cosmetics line—bright shadows and blushes housed in pretty deep [...]

Talent and ingenuity aside, famed makeup artist Pat McGrath has another trick up her sleeve when it comes to keeping models looking fresh-faced before sending them down the runway. McGrath is said to be a fan of SK-II’s Signs Eye Mask which she will surely have on hand while painting faces at Oscar de la [...]