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“When I look at the collection, it’s very youthful and innocent, but it’s an innocence with dirty hands,” said makeup artist Tom Pecheux at Altuzarra. He referenced the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? to describe the designer’s woman for Spring ’15: “a proper girl with a sick mind.” The face painter translated this concept into the makeup by using classic cosmetic accoutrements (pink lipstick, rosy blush, and false lashes) but applied each in a way that was a little bit off. The mouth was slightly overdrawn with MAC lipstick in Spring Sensation from the brand’s seasonal palette, blush was diffused beyond the apples of the cheeks, falsies were snipped and glued to the center of the top lashes, and Haute and Naughty mascara was pressed vertically just below the pupil—leaving a strategic stripe of black. “If you put [the false lashes] in the corner, you make the eye very glamorous, but if you put it in the middle, you’ve twisted the whole thing and made it really girly,” Pecheux explained.
The hair, on the other hand, was all about impeccable French technique, which Odile Gilbert was more than happy to provide. The pro gathered the hair into a pony, wrapped a small section around the elastic, and enveloped the tail in a hairnet to keep the Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour-inspired look “super clean.” To finish, the tail was rolled up and pinned—forming a chignon in the shape of a heart that was spritzed into submission with Kérastase Laque Noire strong-hold hairspray. The beauty lesson I took away from today: Why wear your heart on your sleeve when it looks even better on the back of your head?
Photo: Sonny Vandervelde / indigitalimages.com.
