Certain makeup artists play favorites with products, pulling out the same palette or pencil at pretty much every turn they make on the backstage circuit. Val Garland’s go-to this season is MAC Cream Colour Base in Shell. “You can see how much I like it,” she joked, displaying the nearly empty pot of shimmering pink-gold [...]

As the build up to Kanye West’s premiere womenswear collection finally came to a head last night in Paris, the question of whether or not the rapper-turned-designer could deliver was answered—as were our burning questions of whether his unquestionable savvy for style would translate in beauty terms. “He knows what he wants,” makeup artist Val [...]

We’re halfway through the Spring season, and already a few overlying makeup trends have started to crop up from New York to London. Aside from monochromatic color palettes and bold brows, we’ve also noticed a preference for metallic pigments backstage (see Lim, Phillip and Herchcovitch, Alexandre) as well as a bright array of mismatched lip [...]

Rather than beat around the bush when describing yet another example of Fall’s masculine/feminine beauty trend at Giambattista Valli, makeup artist Val Garland called a spade a spade: “It’s a real innocent boy,” she deadpanned of the “neat” faces she was painting backstage. But as anyone who feels naked without a stitch of concealer or [...]

Makeup artist Val Garland’s palette may have been limited to black and white in Nick Knight’s “Refined Rebel” story in this month’s issue of Vogue U.K., but that certainly didn’t impede her creative capabilities. “The inspiration for the makeup comes from the idea of mixing up trends—a bit Penelope Tree with a bit of Siouxsie [...]

For those of you wondering how the zebra-print shirt in the last look at Louis Vuitton could be so skin-tight on Kristen McMenamy that nary a fabric ripple could be seen as she traipsed down the runway, there was good reason for that: It wasn’t a shirt at all—it was painted on. Body art has [...]

The Paris hair-color chronicles got yet another entry yesterday at Giambattista Valli, where coiffing legend Orlando Pita gave three platinum blonde models shocks of pink dye. “Hair in fashion has gotten too boring,” Pita offered of the shade experiments that have been one of the bigger stories to come out of the last week of [...]

The seventies may have swept the Fall shows, but there seems to be a sixties vibe afoot backstage for Spring. It was present in the blunt eyeliner Tom Pecheux did at Peter Som, and in the middle-parted down ‘dos Orlando Pita and Frédéric Fekkai’s Didier Malige whipped up at Derek Lam and Victoria Beckham, respectively. [...]

To piggyback on our eye liner discussion from yesterday, we bring you backstage beauty from Giambattista Valli, where makeup artist Val Garland created a modern update on Jean Shrimpton’s mod-tastic, graphic peepers. Keeping models’ faces matte and their lips nude, Garland used a collection of taupe, gray, and brown eye shadows to create a smoky [...]

Fashion enthusiasts are counting down the days until their favorite glossies release their September issues, but the mystery of at least one cover girl has been solved. Kate Moss appears on the front of British Vogue’s fall spectacular in a cleavage-bearing Burberry trench with one hell of a black cat-eye and her blond locks in [...]