Makeup Beat

COCO MADEMOISELLE PARFUM

This isn’t new must have been for last Spring, but Daria LANCOMES contract girl looks so pretty here and I love the purple and lavender palette. Pretty dramatic eye makeup for cosmetic advertising but still very soft and pretty.

Don’t know when this was done of DREW BARRYMORE but doesn’t she look beautiful. The way her hair softly waves about her face is wonderful.

GUY BOURDIN one of the great photographers of the 70’s and 80’s (he died in 1991) and is still a big influence today (Madonna was inspired by him for her “Hollywood” video). Best known for his work for FRENCH VOGUE and the shoe company CHARLES JOURDAN. Guy had a macabre fascination with death and alienation and his photos usually portrayed this in a surrealistic manner. In 1976 he was hired to photograph a lingerie catalog for BLOOMINGDALES that was the talk of New York (in the photo above is one of the models he booked Debbie Dickinson (center), sister of Janice). Guy was a perfectionist when it came to hair and makeup and could be very demanding of the models too. He presented fashion more as an accessory to the story he was telling rather than the subject. (click on small photos to enlarge)

THE GIORGIO ARMANI FALL COUTURE COLLECTION is a limited edition eye couture palette of nude shades coupled with dark hues to create an elegant canvas of color. Here makeup artist TIM QUINN shows two looks for this Fall. (click on small photos)
A bold dark smokey eye with a soft lip color. TIP: Use a dark eye pencil to line the eye and then smudge that before following with a dark powder eye shadow on top to blend together and create the smokey look.

A totality nude look with soft eyes and pale lips. TIP: Apply the lip color first and then line with a lip pencil after to define the lips in a softer way.

Check out MARIAH CAREY and HALLE BERRY in high school and today.

CHRISTOPHER KANE: Day-glow pink stretch mini dress with lace inserts.

GARETH PUGH: Oversize jacket and mini dress in metalic checks.

GILLES DEACON: Black silk mini dress with long fringe on sleeves and a feathered helmut hat. (photos from the NY TIMES)

The Swiss are pulling out all the stops with their creativity for China’s VISION magazine. Makeup and hair artist YVANN YAGGI teamed up with photographer DAVOLO STEINER in Geneva to create this fantasy look on model MARINA K. Visit Davolo.com for more.
Impressive mix of makeup techniques used here.

VICTOR SKREBNESKI opened his photography studio in Chicago in 1952 and has been going strong ever since. I became aware of his work through the ESTEE LAUDER campaigns during the 1970s. KAREN GRAHAM was their contract model and she would appear in VOGUE each month in the latest ad. Always looking very elegant and the epitome of the wealthy socialite photographed in various rooms of her fabulous mansion. Victor became the man to go to if you wanted to add class to your campaign. He did many beautiful spreads for TOWN & COUNTRY magazine, was great friends with designer HUBERT DE GIVENCHY, shot for CHANEL, RALPH LAUREN, and worked with LAUDER for over 25 years. He has remained in Chicago and still shoots the posters for the CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL each year which have become collectors items. I once had the pleasure of working with the master himself on a shoot for Estee Lauder and he had the air of a European prince, even though he is just a regular guy from Chicago. (click photos below to enlarge)

SUEDE magazine had it’s debut in Nov 2004 as a quarterly publication and was to go monthly in April of 2005 when ESSENCE COMMUNICATIONS and TIME INC. announced that the urban, streetwise, “Black Vogue” was going on “hiatus”…never to be seen again. I loved this magazine. It was so exciting and colorful visually and graphically, covering fashion and pop culture all under editor/diva SUZANNE BOYD. The official line was that “more time and resources would be needed to further develop this brand” which translates to “it wasn’t making money”. But really it takes more time to get people to notice and become loyal to anything new, especially the multicultural audience they were after. This photo is from one of the amazing Suede magazine beauty spreads with makeup by AYAKO (represented by Jed Root Inc.) and photographed by MICHAEL BRANDT (represented by Jump Management).
Alicia Keys and Suzanne Boyd

YSL’s unique Perfect Touch Radiant Brush Foundation and Rouge Pure Lipstick in “Opium Red” (”a not too blue not too yellow color that took months to get just right”) are only two of the products developed by the YVES SAINT LAURENT BEAUTE artistic director LINDA CANTELLO . A graduate of London’s Harrow Art School with a Fine Arts Degree, Linda then established herself in the late 80’s as a makeup artist working with the top fashion designers and photographers in both New York and Paris. Realizing that what works on the runway must be translated differently for the everyday woman, Linda decided to create her own cosmetic line using state of the art formulas and an innovative approach to color, including everything from makeup brushes to eye cream all under her own name. To be able to maintain her own line and be director for YSL is a compliment to her immense talent. (click small photos to enlarge)