Exclusive! Introducing Pat McGrath’s New Skin-Transformative Makeup Kit
Voguefans April issue hits newsstands tomorrow, which means plenty more #badgalriri cover story realness—and our exclusive reveal of spring’s most highly anticipated makeup launch. Inside, you’ll get a first look at Skin Fetish 003, the latest offering from Pat McGrath’s innovative Labs concept, which has been churning out coveted products (in even more covetable quantities) since the debut of Gold 001 nearly broke the Internet last fall.
For those who’ve long wondered how to get the otherworldly skin finish—think dewy, luminous, alive—that McGrath has made her signature on set and backstage at the industry’s top runway shows, it may be the makeup legend’s most exciting surprise yet. The new three-piece collection features a dual-ended stick with a creamy illuminator on one side and a nutrient-rich balm on the other that are meant to be layered with fingertips. “The real secret is the system,” says McGrath, who has been keeping said secret confined to unmarked plastic tubs that she has dipped in and out of over the course of her 20-plus-year career to readily dust the Cupid’s bow of lips, cheekbones, and even clavicles with incandescent light. But with artistic elevation—and real-time transparency—at the heart of her Labs initiative, McGrath is finally in a sharing mood.
The components of the kit—which also includes a made-in-Japan blending brush and a glimmering pressed powder available in two shades, Iridescent Pink 003 (a prismatic ivory) and Fine Gold 003 (a pale champagne)—can be used together, or alone. When swept across the high planes of the face or all over the body, they collectively impart a curated shine reminiscent of the ethereal skin McGrath created at Valentino’s recent Fall 2016 show, where she clandestinely first used the product.
“It’s just a fun new way to show women—and men—how to use shimmer,” McGrath explains; it’s also poised to be kind of a big deal. Pat McGrath Labs will produce just 25,000 of the Skin Fetish 003 Kit, which will be available on April 26 at PatMcGrath.com and on May 10 at Sephora.com. Consider this your first calendar reminder.
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The Best Bad-Girl Beauty Movies of All Time
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| Amanda Seyfried, Lindsay Lohan, and Lacey Chabert in Mean Girls |
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| Anne Bancroft in The Graduate |
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| Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, and Selena Gomez in Spring Breakers |
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| Ava Gardner in The Killers |
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| Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road |
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| Demi Moore in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle |
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| Emma Watson in The Bling Ring |
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| Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde |
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| Gene Tierney in Laura |
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| Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction |
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| Greta Garbo in Mata Hari |
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| Honor Blackman in Goldfinger |
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| Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet |
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| Julie Benz, Rebecca Gayheart, and Rose McGowan in Jawbreaker |
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| Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers |
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| Kathleen Turner in Body Heat |
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| Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
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| Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface |
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| Pam Grier in Coffy |
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| Patricia Arquette in True Romance |
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| Rachel True, Neve Campbell, and Fairuza Balk in The Craft |
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| Rooney Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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| Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct |
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| Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise |
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| Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction |
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| Winona Ryder in Heathers |
Pam Grier’s hourglass waistline (in Coffy) and Sharon Stone’s mile-long limbs (in Basic Instinct) help them appear so heavenly that they seem incapable of the havoc they wreak. It’s a tactic that makes Spring Breakers so unsettling: How could bikini-clad, blowout-touting pretty young things ever rob or kill? But beware of a woman who is beautiful enough to get what she wants, Emma Watson nonverbally warns in The Bling Ring as she applies another layer of lip gloss—because she will take it. It only requires a few sunny highlights for Anne Bancroft to cleverly distract from her character’s darkness in The Graduate, and an optimistic swipe of pink lipstick to make Susan Sarandon look like she’s on the right side of the law in Thelma & Louise. Here, a look back at 26 women who prove that while good girls may go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere—and look unapologetically fantastic while they’re at it.
Emerald Eyeliner Is Back! How to Pull Off Spring’s Prettiest Makeup Trend
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| Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner in Ivy Shimmer Ink |
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| Estée Lauder Double Wear Infinite Waterproof Eyeliner in Blackened Emerald |
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| Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Gel Eye Crayon Eyeliner in O(Vert) |
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| Maybelline New York Master Smoky Longwearing Shadow Pencil in Emerald Fury |
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| NARS Cosmetics Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Rue de Rivoli |
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| Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner in Emerald |
After season after season of no-makeup makeup, we’re ready for a change. Luckily, the Fall 2016 runways were packed with colorful eyes and lip ideas that we can’t help but embrace a little early. What better way to welcome spring (and St. Patrick’s Day) than with a hint of emerald eyeliner? Risky shadow shades have been on our radar for months now—who can forget Beyoncé’s courtside jade lids, or this colorful Instagram from Joan Smalls, which is inspiring us to reach for a similarly shaded pencil instead.
The model topped off a traditional smoky eye with a dash of iridescent green liner on her waterline, transforming a classic date night look into something a little more dramatic. Another take: For an unpredictable twist on the cat-eye, swap out your black liner for a matte, mossy hue, like Stila’s waterproof formula. The look isn’t just for green eyes anymore—incite makeup envy with these six verdant shades.
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Lindsey Wixson’s Bold Wing of Black Eyeliner: Wear It for Saturday Brunch!
It’s Saturday afternoon—time to up your beauty game! And what better way to add impact to a brunch-ready knit cardigan, jeans, and a leather backpack than with a quick brushstroke of black liquid eyeliner? Earlier this week, model Lindsey Wixson wore an exaggerated, obsidian version of the makeup look straight off the Fendi runway and onto the street in Milan, offering up an easy lesson in how to balance a bold beauty statement by pairing it with fresh skin and tucking the ends of her hair into a skinny neck scarf. If you plan on matching her stroke for bold stroke today, here’s how.
| Dior Diorshow Art Pen in Catwalk Black |
| Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturizer Sunscreen |
| Bumble and Bumble Prêt-à-Powder |
| Saint Laurent Leopard-print silk crepe de chine scarf |
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The Feathered Brow, Backstage at Jil Sander: Makeup Artist Pat McGrath’s 2-Second Trick to Getting It Right
Backstage at Jil Sander today, models’ pure skin and softly shaded features were the picture of soft femininity—with one exception: A thick, boyish, “feathered” brow that heightened the appearance of each girl’s youthful, healthy good looks. To create the perfect shape, makeup artist Pat McGrath was using a pencil to fill in holes, then going over the brow with powder—but that wasn’t the real secret to her handwork. To ensure a brow that’s “not too blockish, not too fake, but still with a bit of depth,” she likes to sweep a clean spooley brush upward through the hairs to remove the perfect amount of excess pigment and ensure “a more organic shape.” And yes—it’s really that easy.
| Morphe Brushes Brow Spoolie Brush, rickysnyc.com |
Everything I Need to Know about Makeup, I Learned from Pat McGrath: 7 Models on Their Favorite Tricks from the Backstage Master
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| Karlie Kloss Pat taught me how to do my brows. I have very sort of arched brows, and she taught me how to appreciate my shape and how to sculpt them into something really strong. |
Why a Raspberry Matte Lip Suddenly Feels Fresh: Carolina Herrera’s Modern Makeup Moment
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| Carolina Herrera’s Modern Makeup Moment |
“Carolina wanted it to look as though the girls just came out of the water,” explained makeup artist Diane Kendal backstage at Carolina Herrera this morning. A jarring thought, perhaps, for those who drove past ice floes in the Hudson River en route to the Lincoln Center Theater—but infused with the designer’s signature elegance, the idea suddenly felt glamorous and inviting. Only in Herrera’s world, after all, does one emerge from the sea with matte raspberry lipstick—created, in this case, using MAC’s Retro Matte Liquid Lip Colour in Oh, Lady (out next fall). Echoing the aquatic undercurrent in the collection (rippling prints, oceanic pastels, splashes of lighthouse red), Kendal was busy transforming Karlie Kloss, Fei Fei Sun, Imaan Hammam, and other landlocked models into “water sirens” by dabbing MAC clear Lipglass onto the eyelids to create a pretty, reflective surface that offered up fresh new possibilities for evening makeup come fall; she also applied strategic hits of highlighter—above the brows, along the cheekbones, down the bridge of the nose—for a sunlit glow. Adding an unexpectedly dewy element were models’ false lashes: Each embellished strip had been dotted with a few light-catching silicone beads and dusted with silver glitter “to give a water droplet effect,” said Kendal, holding a glinting pair up to the light.
Across the hall, the wet effect was even more tangible in hairstylist Orlando Pita’s hands, where he was dousing a model’s low ponytail with TRESemmé’s Smooth & Silky No Frizz Shine Spray. First, he slicked the hair straight back using a handful of gel. “You really feel the groove of the comb,”’ he said of the imperfect, fresh-from-the-pool texture. For the finishing touch, he wrapped—and wrapped and wrapped—a thin length of metallic leather (pewter for brunettes, silver for blondes) to form a tightly wound cuff. Consider us ready to heed this siren’s call.
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| MAC Lipstick in Rebel, $16 ; maccosmetics.com |
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