Photo: Benoît Peverelli
The questions we had the second the nearly neon pouts came down the catwalk at Chanel’s latest Resort show in Seoul: What is it, and how fast can we get it on our lips? To re-create the look, the house suggests a combo of Chanel Le Crayon Levres Precision Lip Definer in Fuchsia topped with Rouge Allure Velvet Luminous Matte Lip Colour in L’Éclatante. Inspired by Eastern beauty trends as well as “cartoon characters,” makeup artist Tom Pecheux crafted “manga kewpies,” as Style.com’s Tim Blanks noted in his review of the collection. The face painter sought to blend what “Asian women are looking for” with a Western consumer’s desires by strategically adhering snippets of falsies in two places. “I used the lashes in the middle to create big, round eyes,” said Pecheux of the rectangular blocks centered on the lower lash line. “Western women look for the cat-eye effect, so that is why I put the lashes on the corners of the eyes,” he said of the second option. Two ways to wear your lashes plus a fresh, electric take on a red lip—we like to think of the finished package as a one-two beauty punch.
Photo: Benoît Peverelli
Photo: Benoît Peverelli
Photo: Benoît Peverelli
—Amber Kallor, Style.com
