Last night, while we were online-stalking a few of the shows here in Paris (sometimes poring over pictures from the presentations —in addition to attending them in person—is a must), we noticed something interesting. While most models have had their their brows dyed back after Pat McGrath’s bleaching spree in Milan—some by McGrath herself backstage [...]

Ever wonder how Pat McGrath’s makeup team puts brows back on at a show after they’ve been bleached out of sight the night before? Or try to visualize the arsenal that the Dolce & Gabbana creative consultant brings with her when she sets up shop backstage? Yeah? We thought so. Click above and enjoy this [...]

Amid the usual backstage hustle and bustle today at Roberto Cavalli, there was a large, gray cubicle erected right in the middle of the hair and makeup area. “Naomi Campbell’s in there,” word came as models whizzed back and forth past a rather large security guard on patrol. Every once in a while, the door [...]

Pat McGrath is a backstage wizard with the power to turn models into digitized virtual dolls with orange eyebrows one day and Sicilian beauties with pure skin and soft pink lips the next. Her own personal look, however, is pretty consistent. The renowned makeup artist wears a uniform of all black, her complexion always perfect [...]

Pat McGrath has had a few highly publicized peroxide moments here in Milan—at Gucci, Prada, and Versace, specifically. But the queen of the bleached brow is well aware of when blocked-out arches work, and when they don’t. “With Sicilian women, the framing of the brow is everything,” she said of the permanent backstage muse at [...]

After a few seasons of dewy skin with warm, highlighted contours, Donatella Versace and her longtime makeup collaborator, Pat McGrath, revisited a part of the house of Versace’s original DNA to create “a really kind of cool rock ‘n’ roll girl,” according to McGrath—requisite smoky eyes included. “It’s all levels of black,” the face painter [...]

It’s official: Fall 2011’s brow wars are back on. Last season’s bleaching ceasefire came to an end backstage at Calvin Klein, where Pat McGrath blocked out arches and then brushed them back on “tonally,” so they matched models’ individual complexions. But the heavy artillary really commenced at Gucci on Wednesday. “It’s slightly ethereal,” McGrath said [...]

There’s something that should be said about the lighting in most backstage areas at most fashion show venues from New York to Paris. It’s unforgivingly bright—and purposely so: the better for makeup artists to see their canvases. So what does this mean for the final beauty look? It can look drastic up close, yet incredibly [...]

“Dark romance” is how Pat McGrath described the beauty look backstage at Gucci, where the makeup artist’s signature bleached brow circa Fall 2009 returned to bring an “ethereal” look to Frida Giannini’s model brigade. “It’s a little Rossetti,” McGrath continued, referencing pre-Raphaelite poet, illustrator, and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s frequently lip-stained portraits.
Accordingly, McGrath summoned the [...]

Black cat-eyes may have dominated the Spring runways, but for Fall, they’ve gone Technicolor. Already turning up in red, orange, and chartreuse incarnations this week in New York, Pat McGrath added azure to the mix backstage at Anna Sui, where she whipped up theatrical blue wings. “There’s beautiful upholstery fabrics in the collection,” the CoverGirl [...]