“Please drink with straws!” came the desperate pleas from casting directors backstage at Rick Owens, where makeup artist Lucia Pieroni was painting on a painstakingly perfect red lip. “It’s 80 percent glamour, 20 percent spooky,” Pieroni said of the look—the outline of MAC Lip Pencil in Redd and the slashing of its Lipstick in Lady [...]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, as the old saying goes. That seemed to be the underlying philosophy at Frida Giannini’s Gucci presentation this morning. The clothes harked back to the flashy, Seventies vibe that was such a hit for Spring. And so too went the hair and makeup, both of which bore resemblances [...]

“These are brilliant pencils,” face painter Charlotte Tilbury said at Chloé yesterday, where she was using MAC’s Brow Pencils in Lingering and Fling to create the crux of her makeup look. “You can do everything with them because they have a waxy texture that blends so well,” she continued, creating a slight, highlighted contour across [...]

At its show this weekend, MaxMara did away with the decadence from a host of seventies revivals that have preceded it this season by embracing something altogether cleaner and leaner for Spring. And so it began backstage with makeup artist Tom Pecheux, who wanted to “erase all the flavors and features of the skin and [...]

Full disclosure: All the seventies/Studio 54 references for Spring have become a bit repetitive for us of late. But when that era-specific beauty is re-created with the kind of precision that we saw backstage at Gucci yesterday, it becomes new and exciting again; Jerry Hall and her cohorts could not ask for a more beautiful [...]

So enamored was I with the backstage beauty look at the Givenchy Couture show yesterday, I went as far as to call my boyfriend over to the computer to have a peek. “Just look at the showmanship,” I said, pointing out the precision with which makeup artist Aaron De Mey and his team placed individual [...]

Daria Werbowy’s face has become synonymous with high-fashion glamour, but the go-to model for fashion houses like Gucci, Chanel, and Prada looks equally comfortable in Isabel Marant plaid and “hipster hair” as she does in couture dresses and sleek updos. The Canadian model’s perfectly separated, I-just-got-out-of-bed loose waves, shown here in Marant’s A/W 2008 ad [...]

…Her extensions, that is. “She has the most expensive extensions in the world,” hairstylist Luigi Murenu reports of Naomi Campbell’s “enhanced” coif, which was apparently ready for its close-up long before the supermodel even sat down in the stylist’s chair on the set of Yves Saint Laurent’s fall ad campaign. “She showed up with some [...]