Pat McGrath Put a Darkish Spin on French Lady Magnificence on the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture Present

Whereas summer time normally means issues decelerate a bit, the style trade by no means stops. This week, the town of lights is swarming with celebrities for Paris Haute Couture Week. Jean Paul Gaultier simply debuted its Haute Couture Fall/Winter 23/24 assortment visitor designed by Julien Dossena of Paco Rabanne, and fashions graced the runway in flowing robes with hyper-realistic rosettes, gold leaf headpieces, and fishnet attire layered over traditional Jean Paul Gaultier printed bodysuits. The gathering had a Joan of Arc-meets Aphrodite-meets ‘90s class really feel, and Dame Pat McGrath created a fresh-but-muted make-up look on the fashions to enhance the items.

Fortunately, we caught up with McGrath to get all the small print on how she created the look.

“Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture FW23 by Julien Dossena blends Haute Couture with on a regular basis attract,” McGrath tells Byrdie completely. “Dossena’s reimagination of Gaultier’s iconic kinds lead us by a Parisian spectacle, the place unusual transforms into extraordinary, and couture exudes easy class.”

Fashions walked down the runway in make-up that, truthfully, regarded like a photograph with the saturation dialed down a smidge. As a substitute of typical French Lady look with a glowy complexion and vivid crimson lip, McGrath created a satin complexion and muted burgundy lip on all fashions to go along with the delicate items.

“The make-up is an echo of [the collection’s] class,” says McGrath. “Naturally glowing pores and skin is complemented by eyes outlined in heat taupe and brown shades, embodying Parisian sophistication. The look culminates with a wealthy, deep brown lip, seamlessly mirroring the gathering’s steadiness of luxurious and ease.”

Naturally, McGrath used all Pat McGrath Labs merchandise to attain the look. To begin, McGrath first massaged the Divine Pores and skin: Rose 001 The Essence ($86) after which prepped the complexion with the Pores and skin Fetish: Elegant Perfection Primer ($46). After that, McGrath and her crew used a mixture of the Pores and skin Fetish: Elegant Perfection Basis ($69) to even out the complexion and the Pores and skin Fetish: Elegant Perfection Concealer ($34) so as to add further protection and proper the beneath eyes. She set the make-up with the Pores and skin Fetish: Elegant Perfection Setting Powder ($42) utilizing the Pores and skin Fetish: Elegant Perfection Powder Brush ($62) to offer the pores and skin an airbrushed glow after which used the Pores and skin Fetish: Elegant Perfection Blurring Beneath-Eye Powder ($32) to set the eyes and easy the pores and skin.

McGrath created an alluring tender smoky eye on the fashions by first making use of a tender taupe shade on the lid, crease, and decrease lash line (which shade, you ask? McGrath says that it’s coming quickly). Then, she outlined the higher lash line with the PermaGel Extremely Glide Eye Pencil ($29) in Blk Espresso and used the liner to outline the decrease lash line earlier than mixing it outward to create a tender wing. McGrath additional emphasised the higher and decrease lashlines with the liner in both shade Xtreme Black or Blk Espresso relying on the mannequin’s pores and skin tone, and added quantity to the highest lashes with the Fetisheyes Mascara ($34).

To sculpt out the options, McGrath utilized the Pores and skin Fetish: Highlighter + Balm Duo ($50) in both Nude or Bronze after which added a subdued flush with the Divine Blush: Legendary Glow Color Balm ($29) in Divine Rose. To spherical out the look, McGrath lined fashions’ lips with the  PermaGel Extremely Lip Pencil ($12) in Dwelling Legend and eventually created a velvety lip with the MatteTrance Lipstick ($39) in Flesh 3.