If your mind has been reeling since last week’s Chanel show in Paris with burning questions like, what did global creative director of makeup Peter Philips use to give models’ skin that otherworldly glow? And how, oh how did he get that string of Swarovski pearls to stick to Arizona Muse’s spine just so? The [...]

If the lace masks at Sarah Burton’s show for Alexander McQueen looked familiar, it’s because anyone who made it to the wildly successful exhibition celebrating the house’s late namesake designer at the Met this summer has seen something like them before. “The idea came from the masks we created for the McQueen exhibit,” confirmed Guido [...]

It was hard to know where to look backstage at Chanel yesterday. Between the makeup artists individually applying pearls onto models’ faces and the house’s global creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, creating a gorgeous glow using a mix of his Illusion d’Ombre eye shadows from Fall, it was definitely a beauty moment worth [...]

The sea, and all of its fluid, textural qualities and mystic creatures, has become a big trend for Spring, informing stand-out shows from Giorgio Armani and Givenchy already this season. But leave it to Karl Lagerfeld and his global creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, to put their own spin on the watery wonderland at [...]

When we got backstage at Kenzo yesterday, there were two pleasant surprises waiting for us. The first was Peter Philips; if Humberto Leon and Carol Lim’s  collection was half as good as their decision to enlist the Chanel creative director of makeup for their first outing for the storied brand, then they’d have a big [...]

While some backstage beauty is meant to make a statement all its own (gold foil eyebrows, anyone?), a lot of it is intended to be a muting tactic—to create a uniform neutrality so the clothes truly take center stage. Such was the case at Dries van Noten, where less was indeed more to put the [...]

Redken creative consultant Guido Palau notably went with sixties-era wig cap-inspired updos last season at Jil Sander, and he culled from a similar era for Spring. “It’s inspired by the 1950’s but then becomes midcentury modern, which makes it such a sculptured look,” he pointed out of the “helmet-like,” sleek, curled-under faux bobs designer Raf [...]

Peter Philips added his two cents to the bleached vs. bushy brow debate that’s captivated the makeup artistry community for the past few seasons yesterday at Fendi, bucking both trends to introduce a totally new way of beefing up arches. “It’s a graphic metallic element,” the face painter said of the gold and silver leaf [...]

As you’ve probably gathered from our latest posts, Beauty Counter is reporting from London this weekend, as the Spring shows have officially crossed the pond. In between getting the backstage scoop at House of Holland, Vivienne Westwood, and Jonathan Saunders (more on that in a bit), we’re also trying to squeeze in some other, er, [...]

We penned a love letter to freckles earlier this summer, and now that Fall is making its rapid return we’re realizing that all of those adorable speckled flecks don’t have to fade with our tan. At least that seems to be the message the makeup artistry establishment is trying to send. At Chloé, face painter [...]