Usually the artistic couture runway shows in Paris have avant garde beauty looks to match. However, this season some designers let the dresses take center stage while the beauty teams created hair and makeup to be perfectly delicate and complimentary.
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The beauty at Christian Dior was an approachable look you could easily create at home. The Dior Garden Pastels 5-Couleurs Eyeshadow Palette was used to create the shimmery lid that perfectly enhanced the entire collection. It was a light and romantic daytime look seen on Karlie Kloss who opened the show followed by Arizona Muse, Constance Jablonski, and Martha Streck. A very lightly lined eye and delicate eyeliner wing was seen against perfectly polished skin and a slightly glossed lip.
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The entire Chanel collection was powder blue, and the makeup was there to match. Our favorite was the exclusive creation le vernis nail colour in Sky Line, which won’t be available until July so there’s no doubt it will be the “it” color of the summer. Create Director of Chanel Makeup Peter Philips used the company’s products and prepared the skin of models like Saskia de Brauw and Lindsey Wixson with Hydra Beauty Serum Hydration Protection Radiance. As for the eyes, we’ll have to wait until summer as well, when the exclusive creation illusion d’ombre Long Wear Luminous Eyeshadow and le crayon yeux Precision Eye Pencil in Bleu Aérien are released.
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Jean Paul Gaultier’s show stirred up some controversy where beehives and heavy winged eyeliner was a clear tribute to Amy Winehouse. Though the critics can argue over the message, the backstage beauty team nailed it. Lead hairstylist Odile Gilbert worked with both natural and wig hair to create versions of the singer’s signature beehive in all the colors of the rainbow while the makeup artists were all about the black eyeliner, using it for heavy liner and beauty marks.
