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Sophia Sinot is the MUA behind Zara Larsson’s Y2K pop fantasy looks

Were the looks for the tour all planned in advance or was there some room for experimentation?

Sophia: I knew that we wanted to combine some old looks and newer looks, but we did it in an elevated pop star way. I made a quick moodboard to send to Zara, but we both knew we would end up freestyling it. Sometimes I like to plan ahead, but sometimes I like to go with the flow because I love to get inspired as I go.

For example, the look we did at the Malmö show in Sweden was inspired by a reference of Beyoncé at the 2006 BET Awards. I told the group chat I really wanted to do a look like it in the future, but I didn’t know when. The day before the show, we were in Copenhagen and the hairstylist, Rodrigo Sardina, brought some hair accessories including stars that you could stick in the hair. I immediately saw the vision and wanted to stick them all over Zara’s legs, up her side, her arms, her hand and the side of her face. The biggest challenge was making sure they stayed on. I prepped her skin with some alcohol and stuck them on with layers of lash glue. I didn’t use any oily or greasy body glow products, but kept her signature glow by adding loose glitter all over.

Courtesy of Sophia Sinot

Courtesy of Sophia Sinot

Which makeup products have been your go-tos in creating the looks for the tour?

Sophia: Since every show had a completely new conceptual glam, I used different products for each show. The base is super important and I really love to use Anastasia Beverly Hills Impeccable Blurring Second Skin Matte Foundation in the shade 3WO – it has beautiful olive undertones. I also love the classic Maybelline Instant Anti-Age Eraser Concealer, it’s one of the first products I ever bought when I discovered my love for makeup and I’m still obsessed with it. It’s super hydrating, not heavy and long-wearing. I also love the Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High Waterproof Mascara. I especially love to use waterproof mascara on the bottom lashes to make sure nothing smudges when Zara is dancing and whipping her hair around.

Last but not least, the rhinestones. I always order my rhinestones from Amazon, the quality is so great and they really shine on stage. I apply them with Eyelure 18 Hour Lash Glue to make sure they don’t fall off. I swear I’ve finished seven tubes of lash glue during the tour!

The gems are definitely a standout part of the looks, why did you want to use them as a signature and what are your tips for incorporating them into makeup looks?

Sophia: The gems really are the star of the show. What I love so much about them is that they catch the stage lights and reflect so beautifully – not only for the naked eye, but also on your phone camera and the big screens in the arenas. That reflection always reminded me of the light of the sun reflecting on the water of the ocean, which for me was so Midnight Sun. It has a super glamorous, show girl vibe, but also has a beautifully calm radiating energy.

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November 21, 2025
The Secrets Behind Meghan Markle’s Beauty Routine at Paris Fashion Week

At the top of the list is Tatcha skincare, one of Meghan’s favorite brands. “I actually mixed the Tatcha Longevity serum in with the foundation, and I think that added another layer of radiance to her makeup,” explained the makeup artist. To set the look and reduce shine in the middle of the forehead, he opted for a Paris-Berlin compact powder—a theatrical make-up brand sold exclusively in Paris—applied to the T-zone of the face.

On her lips, Martin opted for a Make Up For Ever pencil in Wherever Walnut and a Tom Ford lipstick in Iconic Nude. Finally, he used a light smudge on the eyelids and a perfect mascara to open up Meghan’s almond eyes. “ I introduced her to this Mac mascara, which she loves,” he notes.

He added that looking made up wasn’t the objective—instead he wanted to add to her allure. Martin said he wanted to create a look that was “beautiful, radiant, polished.” The goal was to make a lasting impression with subtlety and elegance, serving Meghan’s message to the world.

It was a successful outing for the make-up artist who served at Meghan’s wedding and her first appearance at Fashion Week a decade ago. He has had a front-row seat for every major stage in the Duchess’s life, and has no intention of stopping here. “I would love to get her in a [bold] lip one day,” he quipped with a smile. “Meghan, if you’re watching this, let’s do a lip. I’d love to see you in a lip.”

Originally published in Vanity Fair France.

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October 8, 2025
Makeup artist Jo Steel has us geeks begging for for more (30 Photos)

Halloween seems like the perfect opportunity to give the lovely and talented, Jody Steel her flowers. The makeup artist and cosplay icon has partnered with CBS and has also been featured on Freeform’s ’25 Days of Christmas.’

Her shadowing techniques are next-level, and it’s as if she thinks of her face as a blank canvas for any given character.

Steel’s skill and beauty have us geeking out. Give her a follow HERE.

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October 31, 2024
Inside Emily Blunt’s Bombshell Transformation for the Critics Choice Awards 2024

When the Barbenheimer phenomenon vaulted two summer movies to blockbuster glory, it was clear how the films diverged when it came to the trajectories of their female characters. Stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie in Greta Gerwig’s candy-bright confection, winds up trading the plasticine perfection of her Malibu Dreamhouse for the mixed-bag freedoms of the real world. In the case of Kitty Oppenheimer—wife to the so-called American Prometheus, brought to simmering life by Emily Blunt in Christopher Nolan’s biopic—she is still, in the metaphorical sense, confined to the box. A biologist who winds up relegated to the roles of wife and mother, she remains unfulfilled, “bristling against the constraints of womanhood at that time,” Blunt says in a video about her Oppenheimer performance, which has garnered a raft of best-supporting-actress nominations. Kitty is a “really brilliant brain that kind of went to waste at the ironing board, and she suffered for it.”

Blunt slips into her Giorgio Armani Privé dress with help from stylist Jessica Paster.

By Jenna Jones.

If Kitty has the force of an undetonated weapon, what Blunt unleashed at Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards 2024 was pure bombshell—red paillettes glowing like fire under the lights. “We were going for a modern twist on Old Hollywood,” stylist Jessica Paster says by phone, shortly after Blunt decamped for the carpet. (She joined her Oppenheimer cast members onstage to accept the award for best acting ensemble.) “The minute I saw that dress, I knew that I wanted it for Emily. I said, ‘Please put it on hold—I just don’t know for what!’” Such was the coup de foudre sparked last July when the one-shoulder Giorgio Armani Privé look appeared on the runway. “The movie is set in the ’40s and ’50s, and that’s what I love about this silhouette,” Paster says. “More important,” she adds, “it has the femininity, but it’s a very strong dress.”

Makeup artist Jenn Streicher swatched countless lipsticks, seeking this precise shade of red—Chanel’s 31 Le Rouge in Rouge Privé.

By Jenna Jones.

Much of that magnetism—glamour at its most grounded—is due to Blunt’s personality, funny and cerebral and warm. Another quotient is her bedrock team. “We’re all in tune with each other,” says Paster, speaking about the others in the creative triumvirate: Jenn Streicher on makeup, Laini Reeves on hair. Streicher comes to the phone, tracing their origin story to the 2007 awards season following The Devil Wears Prada. “I had actually been working with her husband, John [Krasinski], and they had just started dating,” the makeup artist recalls. “I was like, ‘Yeah, if you ever need anybody, just let me know.’” The next week, Blunt called up about the SAG Awards. “John always says that she stole me from him,” Streicher says with a laugh.

The red shoes are by Alexandre Birman; hairstylist Laini Reeves, working with the hair-health line Burgeon, secures the rosette-like buns.

By Jenna Jones.

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January 16, 2024
Inside Ali Wong’s Cool, Calm—and Winning—Look for the Golden Globes 2024

When a Netflix show centers around a road-rage incident and the snowballing catastrophes that follow, how much of that fictional universe is safe to carry off set? “I do find myself wearing a lot of cream and neutrals like Amy,” Ali Wong writes by email, referring to her role in Beef, the 10-episode hit that swept three top awards at Sunday’s Golden Globes 2024. (Wong and costar Steven Yeun each earned statues for their shimmeringly unhinged performances; Beef also won for best television limited series. All eyes on Monday’s Emmy Awards.) Wong’s character, Amy Lau, runs an upscale plant boutique while juggling home life with a young daughter and an imperviously upbeat husband—the kind of face-value success that leaves her emotions simmering just below the surface. When a parking-lot confrontation ignites a spiraling feud with a contractor (Yeun), her muted good taste becomes an aesthetic counterpoint. “Helen Huang, our costume designer, thought it was so funny for Amy to choose such calming, zen tones, while having the most insane thoughts,” Wong says. The actor’s Globes dress—a white Dior Couture column, seemingly fit for a marble caryatid on the Acropolis—carried on that sartorial serenity. This time, though, the emotional tenor was a match.

Chanel’s glass-encased lipstick—31 Le Rouge, in the shade Rouge Beige—brings a Cinderella effect.Courtesy of Daniel Martin.

“She loves getting us all together and just kiki-ing and laughing,” says makeup artist Daniel Martin of the day’s red-carpet crew, which included stylist Tara Swennen and Clayton Hawkins on hair. Martin recalls first meeting the comedian through Opening Ceremony cofounders Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, during a pre-pandemic event for Wong’s 2019 book, Dear Girls. “We had so many mutual friends, so when we met, it was just [like finding] a lost sister. We totally clicked,” Martin says. For Sunday’s Globes makeup, he took inspiration from a 1996 Chanel runway show, which paired a “frosty, light pink lip” with a smoky eye—an element of drama that Martin carefully calibrates around Wong’s ever-present glasses. The evening’s gold-rimmed selection, with an oversize cat-eye silhouette, echoed the actor’s Swarovski collar and drop earrings. “She said something today that was like, ‘Glasses are the shoes for your face’—how everyone has a fancy pair of shoes, so why not wear a fancy pair of glasses?” Martin recounts with a laugh.

The day’s lineup of Tatcha skin care and Chanel makeup.

Courtesy of Daniel Martin.

For Wong, who followed last April’s Beef premiere with a cross-country slate of stand-up shows (she picks back up next month), the return to awards season has its perks. “Onstage, I wear mostly co-ord knit sweats that are kid’s size 11-12Y. I look like Paulie Walnuts with just some liquid eyeliner when I’m on tour,” she says by email. “I’m so grateful for all of the talented people who bippity boppity boop me into a red-carpet look because there’s no way I could do a fraction of what they contribute on my own.” She describes an all-day hang. “Daniel Martin always kicks it off with a dreamy face massage and a ’90s R&B playlist that has me body-rolling in the chair.”

Wong with her creative team: from left, stylist Tara Swennen, makeup artist Daniel Martin, and hairstylist Clayton Hawkins.

Courtesy of Daniel Martin.

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January 10, 2024
The beauty pop-ups you need to visit before Christmas

Online shopping is undeniably convenient, but there’s nothing quite like the experience of holding a product in your hands. That’s why we love beauty pop-ups. They bring back the magic and give you a chance to access the brands you love in a much more 360 way. Sure the web might be able to ship a moisturiser to your door the next day, but you can’t feel it, smell it, shade match it or swatch it. So how do you know you’re going to love it?

Beauty pop-ups can elevate the whole experience. They give you a proper overview of hero products and brands, then take it a step further with activations and residencies that offer something a little extra. They can give brands that only exist online the chance to connect with customers in IRL and, on the flipside, they give customers the chance to gain expert advice and a better insight into which products to pick, alongside how to get the best out of them.

Now that we’re heading towards the holiday season and a New Year, you’ll likely find that some of your favourite brands are more inspired than ever to capture your attention.

Bring the festive cheer and tap into treat-yourself season with these innovative pop-ups.

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When: Until 14th January, 2024

Where: 173 Regent Street, London, W1B 4JQ

In celebration of Glossier’s best-selling perfume Glossier You, the brand unveiled a new pop-up in the heart of Central London to treat all the fragrance obsessives to a truly immersive experience, designed to awaken your senses of sight, touch, smell and sound in the most unique way possible. From the hypnotising ASMR room to the intriguing experience at the red booths (no spoilers here, because you have to be there to see just how interesting it is), to say that I was impressed would be an understatement. You’ll get to fully immerse yourself in the key components that went into the creation of Glossier You and also get a chance to stock up on the brand’s brand new merch – some of which includes the oversized red peppercorn mill and (my fav) the Glossier branded mini mic. A win-win. – Denise Primbet, GLAMOUR’s Beauty Commerce Writer.

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December 10, 2023
How Emma Stone Got Ready for the New York Premiere of ‘Poor Things’

Bella Baxter, the curiosity (played by Emma Stone) at the center of Yorgos Lanthimos’s neo-Gothic romp, Poor Things, cuts a severe figure in waist-grazing raven hair and heavyset brows. But the character herself—a living, breathing experiment on her way to self-actualization—is really a tangle of contradictions. Her delicate beauty skews feral, her sexual hedonism is braided with the absurd. Even before the film’s New York premiere on Wednesday evening, Stone’s performance had already been drawing praise. (A snippet of a frenetic dance sequence in the trailer hints at just how much the performance is a finely calibrated, full-bodied feat.) But with a winding awards season likely ahead, how might an actor carry the spirit of this wild child onto an otherwise buttoned-up red carpet?

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things, sporting an epic braid and deep brows. Nadia Stacey designed the character’s hair and makeup look.

Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.

Stone’s premiere look offered an early glimpse: all the polish you’d expect of a seasoned Oscar winner, with a glimmer of Bella’s idiosyncratic verve. That played out as a diaphanous yellow Louis Vuitton dress, a jeweled orchid worn on the neck with a Degas-style ribbon, raspberry lips and pearlescent eyes, and the actor’s back-to-red hair twisted into a deconstructed knot. It helps to have a creative team that has shepherded Stone throughout her career. “Since 2007—Superbad, her first film,” says makeup artist Rachel Goodwin, speaking in the car as she and hairstylist Mara Roszak shuttled from Stone’s hotel room to the screening. Together with stylist Petra Flannery, the three women have the push-pull of collaboration down. “I always say we’re kind of like a band,” Goodwin says.

From left: The array of makeup used for the New York premiere included a new shade of Pat McGrath Labs ChromaLuxe Artistry Pigment, arriving December 15. The hand-embroidered dress by Louis Vuitton is encrusted with crystals and mother of pearl.

From left: Courtesy of Rachel Goodwin; Courtesy of Louis Vuitton.

In tracing the trajectory from Poor Things to premiere, Stone credits the film’s hair and makeup designer, Nadia Stacey, for such beautiful work—raw skin and runaway hair lending to that unbridled quality. “Because Bella, my character, is so without shame and self-judgment, I think that applies to beauty in a huge way, and confidence around beauty,” Stone explains via email. “So with this press tour, Rachel and Mara and Petra and I have been talking about a kind of inspiration of Bella and that sort of simplicity but still having fun with color and youthfulness.”

The evening’s violet-tinged mouth played off the chartreuse yellow of the tulle dress. Goodwin enhanced Stone’s freckles for an ultra-natural effect, while the handmade Louis Vuitton choker dialed up the glamour.

Courtesy of Rachel Goodwin.

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December 8, 2023
This Season’s Moody Makeup Delivers Glamour With Bite

When the vampires are played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie—chiseled features, haute froideur—it’s hard not to side with the bloodthirsty. The Hunger, Tony Scott’s 1983 directorial debut, opens in a New York nightclub, as Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy sings the propulsive “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” The lovers select their prey: a sunglasses-at-night guy and a redhead with slashes of eyeliner and crimson lips. She dances, unaware that she exits the film in six minutes flat.

A speed-walking cast of models made a similarly fleeting appearance at Marc Jacobs’s fall 2023 show. The designer’s ode to the ’80s manifested as bleached wigs, cropped black stockings, a striped suit fit for Beetlejuice. But it was the drained faces and brusque red mouths, together with show notes credited to OpenAI and ChatGPT, that brought The Hunger to mind—as if updating the plot for an era of vampire electronics. “We wanted a futuristic vibe, so that’s why we went for that gaunt look,” says makeup artist Diane Kendal, who hollowed models’ eye sockets with gray shadows. (Her inspiration was 1982’s Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, Tony’s brother.) Kendal did dab highlighter on the cheekbones, nose, and tear ducts—“because you still want the girls to look beautiful, even though it’s not the most beautiful makeup.”

That impulse to veer into darkness is the order of the day, from Wednesday (slated for a poststrike return) to Olivia Rodrigo’s music video for “Vampire.” The lyrics lambast an ex (“bloodsucker, fame fucker”), and Rodrigo has bite, her oxblood lipstick offset by ethereal, glossy lids. Makeup artist Kathy Jeung wanted the pop star “to look powerful and vulnerable at the same time,” she explains. The “spidery, clumpy lashes” were Rodrigo’s idea, like tears hardened into spiky resolve.

Bakeup Beauty’s amped-up mascara, Tarantulash, creates exactly that effect. “I didn’t want it to be like ‘voluminous, feathery’ bullshit,” says cofounder and makeup artist Jo Baker, referring to the usual puffed-up marketing names. Hers is to the point. She teased it months ahead of launch, posting a photo of an orange-and-black tarantula alongside her two-tone Critics Choice makeup look for Natasha Lyonne. “This is not for the fainthearted,” Baker says of the fast-build formula that lasts. “I could be caught in the rain. I can have a full emotional meltdown, which, let’s be honest, can happen to any of us.”

That was unexpectedly the case for at least one damp-eyed guest at Rodarte’s fall 2023 show, where Tori Amos’s “Winter” accompanied the fantastically gloomy procession. (“Hair is gray and the fires are burning,” Amos soothsays from 1992.) Witchy liner, pictured above, set the mood, seen first with a suite of neo-Morticia black dresses. “We kept pushing it with early punk references and gothic fairy notes,” says James Kaliardos of the eyeliner shapes, which he sketched with a brow pencil for symmetry before inking with Nars’s Climax. “Though it’s hard to do, I know a lot of girls that want to rock this look.” Even that severe beauty statement found fanciful counterpoints: in Rodarte’s metallic fringe dresses and nearby tables set with glitter-covered feasts. The future, however uncertain, shines bright.

Nars Cosmetics Climax liquid eyeliner

Dior Beauty Mono Couleur Couture eye shadow in Black Bow

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Cake Batter lipstick in Bloodberry

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September 22, 2023
Proenza Schouler and Merit Beauty’s New Collaboration Delivers Great Skin and a Must-Have Bag

Last Saturday, shortly before the white-walled galleries of Phillips auction house moonlighted as a runway, makeup artist Diane Kendal detailed the particulars of Proenza Schouler’s spring 2024 beauty direction. Surprises were not in store. “We’re doing a no-makeup makeup look, enhancing all the girls’ natural features,” she said, ticking through the lineup of Merit Beauty products at hand: Great Skin serum for a healthy radiance, Day Glow highlighter on the cheekbones, Clean Lash mascara applied just at the root of curled lashes. “The usual at Proenza,” she smiled—a vote of approval for designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, faithful stewards of their own good taste. “It’s very authentic to them.”

More than two decades into the label’s run, the Proenza Schouler duo have honed in on an aesthetic driven by the kinds of women they want to celebrate. “You notice them before you notice their personal style,” McCollough says in a post-show call with Hernandez. They offer up a string of examples from their mood boards of late. “Amber Valletta back in the day. Patti Smith. Weyes Blood, who opened the show,” Hernandez says, referring to the musician who also supplied the runway score. Of course Chloë Sevigny, a recurring muse who walked last season; also Sade and “artists Jenny Holzer and even Louise Bourgeois—just these natural beauties, these intelligent women who have this undone quality to them,” McCollough adds.

The two-tone bag incorporates Merit’s shade of pale blue.

By Daniel Shea for Merit.

With today’s debut of the Runway Set—a limited-edition makeup collaboration with Merit—that vision of beauty arrives in one tidy package. Best of all, the package itself is by Proenza Schouler: a chic iteration of Merit’s knotted cosmetic bag, here in reversible black and cloud blue vegan leather.

For Aila Morin, Merit’s founding senior VP of brand, growth, and innovation, partnering with Proenza Schouler was a meeting of the minds. “When we were concepting the brand in 2020, they were all over the mood boards,” she says over Zoom, her incandescent skin a testament to the brand’s serum—one of five products in the set. “Every time I was pulling references, I was really pulling their work. We have this shared sense of effortlessness and wearability that’s in the DNA of both brands.”

A fresh-faced model backstage at Proenza Schouler’s spring 2024 show. Makeup artist Diane Kendal used Merit Beauty products to create the look.

Courtesy of Proenza Schouler.

The beauty company first began sponsoring Proenza Schouler’s shows in February 2022, seeding a kinship that gave rise to the Runway Set—a name that’s duly earned. Along with the serum, there’s the Clean Lash mascara, a formula that’s “really popular with makeup artists because it gives this feathery lifted look, but it’s not chunky and it also doesn’t kind of steal the show,” says Morin. Merit’s clear lip oil is here, along with Flush Balm—a cream blush that’s “impossible to mess up”—in a versatile brick tone. And for a finishing sweep: Merit’s blending brush, good for erasing the seams of any complexion products.

Merit Beauty x Proenza Schouler

The entire set launches today, as part of Proenza Schouler’s trunk show on Moda Operandi. By early October, the bag itself will hit Merit’s site, too, as a very covetable bonus for orders over $100. “I have always loved fashion, and I remember growing up when it was unattainable to a certain extent,” Morin says, thrilling at the idea of a high-brow gift-with-purchase. She recalls how the bag design originally grew out of Merit’s aim for less waste: “Could you create something that people would actually reuse and not just toss out?” This two-tone vegan leather version, drawing on Merit’s signature blue, promises to have particular staying power. “It feels very Proenza, in a way,” says Hernandez. “Easy, effortless.”

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September 16, 2023
How AAPI–Owned Beauty Brands Are Making Waves and Garnering Support

The business of beauty is inherently personal for the wearer, down to the pitch-perfect foundation shade. But the products that land in the medicine cabinet often reflect a broader story about shared values, experiences, and aesthetics, as well as which makers one chooses to support.

AAPI Heritage Month, which falls during May, arrives in the swing of a banner year for representation among members of this community in the United States. In March, the Academy Awards heaped honors—including a best picture statue—upon the genre-bending movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu. The following month, Netflix’s breakthrough hit Beef put Ali Wong and Steven Yeun in the spotlight, as their characters waded through macro- and micro-aggressions. Designer Peter Do has landed at Helmut Lang; Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is adapting her best-selling memoir, Crying in H Mart, for the screen. And while such high points are certainly not enough to heal the collective trauma inflicted by recent waves of racially based violence, this unprecedented visibility is critical for the AAPI community—all the more reason to champion the AAPI–led beauty brands on the shelves.

From AI–powered skin care rooted in Korean tradition to makeup artists’ essentials lighting up TikTok, the celebrated products by these 18 companies illustrate the richness and ingenuity of the many cultures that comprise the AAPI community. Naturally, this list just scratches the surface, but it’s a starting point for showing support. Plus, you just might find the product that takes your beauty routine to the next level.

House of M

After a stretch of postpartum depression led Anne Nguyen Oliver to the sleep-enhancing benefits of medical-grade saffron, the Vietnamese native dove into research about the ingredient’s topical uses—particularly as an ultra-gentle treatment for her hormonal melasma. That discovery inspired her to launch House of M in 2019, beginning with a serum featuring the purest grade of saffron (called negin), which has sold out three times. Nguyen Oliver’s California-based line has since expanded to include three additional skin care products, including this hydration-boosting mask.

House of M Saffron Miracle Serum

House of M Beauty Saffron Glow Jelly Mask, Set of 4

Patrick Ta

After making his name as a go-to makeup artist for the likes of Gigi Hadid, Camila Cabello, and Joan Smalls, Vietnamese wunderkind Patrick Ta packaged up that bombshell aesthetic and established his own makeup line in 2019. Anchored in shades and textures designed to give skin a dewy, sculpted glow, the product range spans face and body. He’s put his professional pedigree to good use, pairing complementary colors in a best-selling blush palette to ensure a pop of color with lasting wear.

Patrick Ta Major Beauty Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush

Patrick Ta Major Dimension II Rose Eyeshadow Palette

Tower 28

After building her career with notable beauty brands, founder Amy Liu set out to create her own, with sensitive skin in mind. (Tower 28 takes its name from a lifeguard tower in Santa Monica that serves as a meeting spot for locals.) Every product in the line, including the range’s best-selling tinted sunscreen, cream blush, and restorative face mist, is formulated in keeping with guidelines from the National Eczema Association to sidestep any potential irritants.

Tower 28 Beauty SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation

Tower 28 Beauty OneLiner Lip Liner + Eyeliner + Cheek Pencil

Good Light

Few people have broadened the conversation within the beauty industry quite like David Yi, whose media platform, Very Good Light, has championed a definition of beauty that supersedes the gender binary. Yi’s long-running efforts to redefine masculinity and how it relates to personal care led to the 2021 launch of his own inclusive skin care line, Good Light.

Good Light Cosmic Dew Water Cleanser

Ctzn Cosmetics

Founded by three sisters who noticed a lack of makeup options for brown skin tones on the shelves, Ctzn Cosmetics is an edited collection best known for its nude lipsticks, which come in 25 variations. The product offerings also include lip liners and glosses, along with a new dual-ended eye shadow stick developed with makeup artist and chief creative officer Sir John—all in similarly nuanced and wide-ranging shades.

Ctzn Cosmetics Nudiversal Lip Duo

Ctzn Cosmetics Eye Elements Dual-Ended Eyeshadow Stick

Sulwhasoo

Sulwhasoo has been a mainstay in the skin care realm for decades, with an emphasis on traditional Korean herbs that has helped build a cult-like following. What has kept the brand feeling modern is its continual drive for reformulation; through its use of a data-driven algorithm, Sulwhasoo incorporates new findings in order to achieve what it deems to be an optimized ratio of active ingredients—ensuring that the products you buy are the very best iterations. Earlier this year, the company announced a year-long partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and named Tilda Swinton its new global ambassador.

Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum

Sulwhasoo Overnight Vitalizing Mask

Riki Loves Riki

While ring lights were game-changing for the beauty world, particularly on social media, Wanchen Kaiser and her husband, Erik, took the concept a step further with a line of sleek mirrors framed in bright LED lights. Riki Loves Riki’s mirrors also come with various levels of dimming, a magnetized phone mount, and even Bluetooth capabilities—making them ideal for both makeup experts and rookies alike.

Riki Loves Riki Riki Skinny Mirror

Riki Loves Riki Riki Super Fine Handheld Mirror

DamDam

Japan has long been a player in the skin care world (see: Shiseido and SK-II), but DamDam, cofounded by Giselle Go and Philippe Terrien, represents the next sustainably sourced iteration of J-Beauty. Crafted entirely in Japan, the formulas in the line are infused with traditional ingredients like shiso leaves, rice, and konnyaku.

DamDam Skin Mud Pure Vitamin C Mask

DamDam Mochi Mochi Luminous Plumping Moisturizer

Live Tinted

Following requests from her vast digital community, beauty influencer turned entrepreneur Deepica Mutyala launched an inclusive makeup line in 2018. It features products inspired by Mutyala’s own hacks (such as using red lipstick to color-correct under-eye circles) and has become a favorite of Phenomenal founder Meena Harris and dermatologist Shereene Idriss, MD, who’s particularly fond of the brand’s mineral sunscreen.

Live Tinted Huestick Multistick

Woo Skin Essentials

Tattoo artistry is necessarily tied to skin care, so it wasn’t a complete surprise when Brian Woo, the LA–based tattoo artist better known as Dr. Woo, launched his own line of products in 2020. Known for his single-needle designs—and A-list clientele, which includes everyone from Bella Hadid to Zoë Kravitz—Woo focuses on the essentials for a healthy canvas, including a cleansing bar gentle enough for freshly inked skin.

Woo Skin Essentials Revitalizing Body Moisturizer

Woo Skin Essentials Gentle Cleansing Soap Set

U Beauty

In 2019, BagSnob founder Tina Craig introduced her inaugural skin care product, the retinol-powered Resurfacing Compound, in a way fitting of a fashion influencer: by handing out samples during Paris Fashion Week. Previously known for her multi-step skin care routine, she advocates for a streamlined approach, with thoughtful, efficacious formulas that use proprietary technology to deliver active ingredients exactly where they’re needed most.

U Beauty The Return Eye Concentrate

U Beauty The Barrier Bioactive Treatment

5 Sens

While you might recognize Divya Gugnani as a cofounder of Wander Beauty, the serial entrepreneur has embarked on another project with the debut of 5 Sens, a fragrance line partly inspired by her own sensitivity to irritants often found in traditional perfumes. Not only are the formulas clean and free from common allergens, but the titular number also factors in heavily: Each of the five debut fragrances is designed to trigger the five senses for a multifaceted experience.

5 Sens Twin Flame Eau de Parfum

5 Sens Catch Feelings Eau de Parfum

CLE Cosmetics

Minimalist-minded CLE Cosmetics (short for Creative Lass Esthetic) applies cutting-edge Korean technologies to makeup and skin care essentials, resulting in delightfully cushiony textures and hybrid formulas. CLE Cosmetics founder Lauren Jin rarely goes without the brand’s innovative lip powder, which she also applies to cheeks for a naturalistic flush. Shade extensions for the CCC Cream are newly in stock as well.

CLE Cosmetics Essence Moonlighter Cushion

Soft Services

In its two years since launch, Soft Services has already made a noted impact on the beauty industry, redirecting attention from the face to below-the-neck zones. Founded by two Glossier alums, the brand applies gold-standard ingredients at percentages high enough to treat the thicker skin on the body, targeting stubborn concerns like ingrown hairs, keratosis pilaris, and body acne—all with style.

Soft Services Carea Cream

Soft Services Smoothing Solution

JinSoon

A fixture behind the scenes at marquee runway shows (Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler), nail artist Jin Soon Choi is known as much for her carefully curated line of nail colors as for her namesake salons. In recent years, she’s branched out into sweet, seasonally inspired nail appliqués and a dedicated nail care range, proving that there’s more to a finessed manicure than polish alone.

JinSoon Flower Nail Art Appliqué

JinSoon x Suzie Kondi Nail Polish in Palma

Superegg

Eggs, known for their high nutritional value, have been a mainstay in Asian skin care for centuries—but they’re decidedly not vegan. With Superegg, founder Erica Choi set out to replicate that nourishment using entirely plant-based formulations powered by proven ingredients. The line includes all the elements of a comprehensive (but edited) routine, including a pleasantly creamy cleanser.

Superegg Sound Renewal Serum Cream

Superegg Calm Movements Eye & Cheek Mask, Set of 5

Indē Wild

Model Diipa Büller-Kholsa (one of the first Indian influencers to reach millions of followers) shifted from a career in law to social change before setting out to found her own beauty brand. Inspired by her mother, an Ayurvedic doctor, Büller-Kholsa drew from her own experience with acne to marry the best of modern science with age-old Ayurvedic rituals. The curated skin care offerings have recently expanded to include formulas for hair as well.

Indē Wild Champi Hair Oil

Indē Wild PM Sunset Restore Serum

Tatcha

Tatcha was among the first skin care brands to bring on board a makeup artist—none other than Daniel Martin, responsible for Meghan Markle’s naturalistic wedding makeup. It was a clever move for founder Victoria Tsai, whose products draw inspiration from time-honored, Japanese beauty rituals. The line also features decidedly modern, makeup-adjacent formulations, such as a mineral sunscreen that doubles as a skin-smoothing primer.

Tatcha The Silk Serum Wrinkle-Smoothing Retinol Alternative

Tatcha The Silk Sunscreen Mineral Broad Spectrum SPF 50

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May 22, 2023
After the Met Gala Red Carpet, the Night’s Top Beauty Artists Dish at Mr. Chow

Twenty-five blocks south of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the waning end of another long first Monday in May, a lively offshoot of the 2023 Met Gala is just getting started. The setting is Mr. Chow, the swank Chinese restaurant that Michael Chow opened on 57th Street in 1979—two years after nearby Studio 54, and four years before Karl Lagerfeld’s debut collection for Chanel. As for the guests, trickling in from the Upper East Side, they are the definition of glamour itself. Hairstylist Sam McKnight, in town from London, has just teased Kate Moss’s blonde lengths. Erykah Badu’s sublime energy is still radiating through Jawara, who styled hair for the musician and her daughter, Puma Curry. Angela Levin, responsible for Nicole Kidman’s makeup, watched the actress slip effortlessly into the same dress she wore for her 2004 Chanel No. 5 campaign. The two talents behind Gisele’s bombshell look—David von Cannon on hair, Georgi Sandev on that incandescent face—are here too, along with a sizable contingent of the beauty industry’s top tier. In lieu of a bustling coat check, suitcase-size kits are tucked into a quiet corner of the bar.

Dinner in full swing at Mr. Chow.

By David Benthal/BFA.com.

The occasion is the Met artists dinner, a tradition set in motion nearly a decade ago by makeup artist Troy Surratt. “The idea was born out of the fact that this is really one of the most glamorous events to happen annually in New York City, and it put a lot of our friends and colleagues all in the same place at the same time,” says Surratt, soft-spoken and silver-haired in a white button-down and Chanel necklace—a nod to the Costume Institute’s Karl Lagerfeld exhibition. It’s rare to have a quorum in this business, when beauty teams usually consist of a single makeup artist and hairstylist, like two oppositely charged ends of a battery. By contrast, the crowd at Mr. Chow feels like a cross-generational yearbook come to life. “It’s the greatest people ever—past, present, and future, everybody in one room,” says Sarah Brown, executive director of Violet Grey’s Violet Lab, who brought the beauty platform onboard as a co-sponsor in 2022. Augustinus Bader, the industry’s skin care darling, is supporting this year’s dinner as well. “What I love about the evening is these are real working people,” says Brown, a former Vogue beauty director with a deep appreciation for behind-the-scenes legends. She paints a Mission: Impossible kind of picture: “They are literally in a van outside the Met, waiting to see if fill-in-the-blank Oscar winner needs her ponytail fluffed up before the after-party.”

Makeup artist Troy Surratt and Violet Grey’s Sarah Brown.

By David Benthal/BFA.com.

Mr. Chow marks the intermission between red-carpet prep and after-party touchups: a refueling for gossip and Champagne and chicken satay. Makeup artist Sam Visser (who looked after Balenciaga’s Demna) and Raoúl Alejandre (behind Nicola Peltz Beckham’s crisp cat eye) catch up on the upstairs balcony. Colorist Jenna Perry recaps her handiwork (Maude Apatow’s copper; rich brown on Karlie Kloss) and shouts out Florence Pugh’s fresh buzz cut by the “amazing” Peter Lux. “That woman is striking,” Violet Grey founder Cassandra Grey agrees, nodding in her shearling Chanel jacket: “You have to have the right head shape.” Facialist Lord Gavin McLeod-Valentine, who bookended his day with Kim Petras and Olivier Rousteing, clinks glasses with Milk cofounder Mazdack Rassi, sending out a splash of Mexican martini. “I’m just excited for King Charles’s coronation, okay?” he quips—and in fact he’ll be a Today show commentator for this weekend’s occasion, beaming in bright and early from LA. Zanna Roberts Rassi, recovering from three-and-a-half hours of live coverage for E!, scrolls through her phone, filled with dress sketches and archival images—weeks’ worth of prep for red-carpet commentary. “I actually wish I had been in this room before I went on air,” she exhales, “because my gossip would have been so much better!” Hairstylist Mara Roszak spent the day with Olivia Wilde (“a goddess through and through”), while Adir Abergel perfected the shag on Lagerfeld muse Kristen Stewart, a regular in his chair since the first Twilight movie. Fara Homidi, whose handsome new makeup line is a topic of conversation, describes the glam for her friend Paloma Elsesser—“a dirty cat eye, with antique Swarovskis that I placed in random spots”—as an all-day affair. “It was like, makeup, hair, makeup, hair, eat some food, hang out, laugh a lot,” she says. “Then we took her to the red carpet, and then we came here!”

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May 3, 2023
Dôen and RMS Beauty Are Writing the Script for Effortless Summer Skin

“I’m all about the skin. Beautiful, refined, elegant-looking skin—not heavy-duty stuff all over the face,” says Rose-Marie Swift in her usual buoyant, no-nonsense tone. The silver-haired, red-lipped makeup artist has earned the right to tell it like it is. In her early days on set, supermodels like Gisele and Miranda Kerr trusted their singular faces in her hands. Swift brought her naturalistic touch to Vogue editorials and, less expected, the theatrical tableaux of aughts-era Victoria’s Secret campaigns. When she launched her makeup line, RMS Beauty, in 2009, her scrutinized ingredient decks and versatile textures (notably the melt-into-skin UnCoverup concealer and sheer Lip2Cheek tints) set a new benchmark for “clean cosmetics”—even if the category was years away from being known as such.

“She’s truly the pioneer. Before it was a big, loud thing”—every beauty brand touting its “no” lists and shifting to more sustainable packaging—“it was Rose-Marie,” says Margaret Kleveland, one half of the sister duo behind the California-based clothing label Dôen. Kleveland, with sun-streaked hair and tattoos along each arm, is soaking in New York’s spring awakening on a recent morning. She and Swift (with Katherine, Kleveland’s cofounder, there in spirit) have decamped to Inness, a bucolic property in Accord, to celebrate their limited-edition makeup collaboration—fruits of an interdisciplinary mind meld. “We want to make products that make women feel good, in all aspects of their life: in career, in motherhood, in going out and being casual,” says Kleveland, who can relate with two kids of her own. The goal is for things to be a “little more effortless.”

The Sunkissed Set by Dôen and RMS Beauty taps into both brands’ taste for subtly flushed lips and fresh skin.

Courtesy of Doen and RMS.

You would be forgiven if color cosmetics don’t immediately come to mind when you think of Dôen’s handsomely made yet unfussy clothing: cotton-print day dresses that belong in an overgrown field, block-print scarves that channel Italian screen stars, breezy two-piece sets that go from beach to dinner. If the beauty cues have been subtle, that’s the point. “We really developed our own style for makeup on shoots, and it was super bare and minimal—that just-kissed, fresh makeup,” says Kleveland. It seemed logical for Dôen to put its own stamp on beauty, with help from the right partner—“and RMS was the only option.”

The hero of the resulting three-piece set, debuting April 19, is a new custom Lip2Cheek, a flushed raspberry shade that turns dab-dab ease into an unabashedly feminine gesture. “There’s a sophistication about that color,” Swift says—an effect that carries to the label, featuring Dôen’s delicate script. “It’s not pink, it’s not bright red, it’s not orange-y.” The makeup artist gestures to a small child across the dining room, pinpointing a color reference: the flush of youth. The second glass pot in the lineup is a classic: Buriti bronzer, a shortcut to sun-kissed glow that Kleveland has used for years. (The cream formula can also act as a highlighter on deeper skin tones and plays well on the eyes, adds Swift.) The last product is Liplights, a neutral gloss that self-adjusts to the wearer’s pH and doubles as a nourishing overnight treatment.

RMS Beauty’s Rose-Marie Swift and Margaret Kleveland, a cofounder of Dôen.

By Natalie Chitwood.

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April 18, 2023
Jenny Slate on Her Critics Choice 2023 Look and ‘Marcel the Shell’ Poignant Makeup Moment

It’s Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, during the brief lull between the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, and Jenny Slate is detailing her red carpet preparations. “Right now, I’m eating an everything bagel in my car. Super glamorous!” the actor says by phone, as an electronic trill announces that she’s shifted into park.

A facial with Natura Bissé notwithstanding (“A gigantic luxury—I’m very happy about that”), this is not the moment for the laid-back pampering one might expect for a woman tied to two celebrated movies. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, a Critics Choice nominee for best animated film, is the product of her decade-long collaboration with co-creator Dean Fleischer Camp, with Slate voicing the winsome one-inch-tall protagonist. She also turns up in awards-season darling Everything Everywhere All at Once, playing an athleisure-clad regular at the laundromat. Maybe, in an alternate reality, Slate is sipping kombucha after yoga and a lymphatic massage. “But right now, I am the mother of a two-year-old who has jet lag,” she says, recalling daughter Ida’s 4 a.m. request for yogurt following the Globes. “It feels like I’m just folding the awards into my life,” she says. A master of her multiverse: “It definitely does all fit.”

Skin prep comes first for makeup artist Kirin Bhatty, who used Violette’s Boum-Boum Milk with a gua sha tool before applying metallic rust tones on the eyes (Yeux Paint in Rose d’Aurore and Marron Glacé). Bisou Balm in Bêtise simulated a “just bitten” lip, Bhatty says.

By Sami Drasin.

Hairstylist Nikki Providence relied on IGK’s Good Behavior balm and smoothing spray to finesse the side-swept waves. “Since it was a torrential downpour off and on all weekend, they were life savers,” says Providence.

By Sami Drasin.

Slate has a soft spot for the Critics Choice Awards. In 2015, she took home the event’s prize for best actress in a comedy, for her role in the oops-pregnancy movie Obvious Child; five years later, her debut comedy special, Stage Fright, earned a nomination as well. “It’s the actual critics who have watched everything, who write in depth about all of these projects, and it is immensely important to be honored by them,” says Slate, who earmarked a dress by Olivier Theyskens for this weekend’s ceremony. It’s one of the designer’s couture-level exercises in sustainability, composed entirely of fabric swatches—in this case, gold and metallic olive and snippets of magenta—that he has accumulated over the years. “I love a turtleneck, always have, and while it’s very tight on the body, it also still somehow shows restraint,” she says. “To me, it feels like maybe my most powerful look yet.”

The Olivier Theyskens dress, revealing its weightless quality.

By Sami Drasin.

A moment with stylist Monty Jackson.

By Sami Drasin.

The team getting Slate ready on Sunday evening serve as longtime confidants: makeup artist Kirin Bhatty and hairstylist Nikki Providence above the neck, stylist Monty Jackson below. “He’s seen me very naked one million times,” Slate says with a laugh. “He really works not just with my figure and what I think is stylish, but also with my emotions.” It’s a cherished quality, given that the stakes of the occasion are higher than another fancy night out. “When you’re [dressing for] your own birthday party, you don’t really think about whether the entire internet is going to tell you that you looked either very good or very bad or somewhere in between.”

Backyard sunlight picks up the metallic glimmers in the dress and makeup.

By Sami Drasin.

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January 17, 2023