Since lipstick made its triumphant return about three years ago, some brands—more so than others—have been quick to adapt to the demand for vivid, opaque offerings that are a far cry from the early aughties reliance on gloss. Shiseido is one of them, churning out the spectacular Day Lily—a bright orange—as well as the kind [...]

The color purple is reprised pretty much every Fall. There’s something about its rich, jeweled tones that speak to the cooler temperatures and work well in complement to the tweeds, plaids, and—if the shows this season are any indication—the onslaught of fur that will hit stores come September. But smudging on a lid-ful of aubergine [...]

Shiseido artistic director Dick Page is sporting a purple-tinged black eye at the moment, but his own shiner was not in fact the inspiration behind the similarly hued makeup backstage at Narciso Rodriguez. “We just started playing around,” Page said of the greasy, multi-dimensional lids he constructed for the occasion. “We tried something brown to [...]

“It’s the right kind of nothing,” face painter Dick Page quipped backstage at Marc by Marc Jacobs, where, at first glance, it appeared as though models were wearing no makeup at all. While Page isn’t usually inclined to perform facial massages as part of his pre-show routine, he made an exception here, as the relatively [...]

Bold lipstick isn’t a big story these days, but orange lipstick still has the power to shock. We’ve talked about it before on this blog, when shades of carrot, coral, and melon turned up at the Fall 2009 shows, and again recently, when designers like Victoria Bartlett, Ohne Titel’s Alexa Adams and Flora Gill, and [...]

As artistic director for Shiseido cosmetics, makeup artist Dick Page is no stranger to stellar product development. When the orange lip made its first big splash on the runway at the Fall 2009 shows (think: Karen Walker, Kinder Aggugini, Charles Anastase, Rag & Bone, and Zac Posen), Page released his Perfect Rouge Lipstick in Day [...]

Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is memorable for many reasons. The madcap plot revolves around one emotionally unstable woman in Madrid who’s been left by her lover. In her attempt to find out why, she crosses paths with said lover’s crazy ex-wife, her best friend’s terrorist boyfriend, and [...]

Never mind the pompom earrings at House of Holland on Saturday. It’s what was going on from ear to ear—specifically, the blush that makeup artist Lucia Pica conjured up using loose shadows and a lipstick—that has the London fashion set buzzing. Pica used a mix of MAC Pigment in Neo-Orange and its Eye Shadow in [...]

“We usually do a bronzy thing,” makeup artist Dick Page said backstage at Michael Kors yesterday. “But this is more healthy—windblown,” he said of his makeup look, which focused on a mix of Shiseido’s Luminizing Satin Face Colors in Orchid, Tea Rose, Petal, and Carnation, all of which were also used to create “the top-down, [...]

If you feel like you’ve seen the super-sleek, side-parted hair that graced the runway at Narciso Rodriguez’ Spring show before, it’s because you have. “He’s referencing himself this season, and in a way, I’m referencing myself for him,” hairstylist Eugene Souleiman told us backstage. Souleiman has his fair share of reference points to cull from, [...]