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.


The Best Bad-Girl Beauty Movies of All Time

Amanda Seyfried, Lindsay Lohan, and Lacey Chabert in Mean Girls
Amanda Seyfried, Lindsay Lohan, and Lacey Chabert in Mean Girls

Anne Bancroft in The Graduate
Anne Bancroft in The Graduate

Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, and Selena Gomez in Spring Breakers
Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, and Selena Gomez in Spring Breakers

Ava Gardner in The Killers
Ava Gardner in The Killers
Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road
Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road

Demi Moore in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Demi Moore in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

Emma Watson in The Bling Ring
Emma Watson in The Bling Ring

Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde

Gene Tierney in Laura
Gene Tierney in Laura

Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction

Greta Garbo in Mata Hari
Greta Garbo in Mata Hari

Honor Blackman in Goldfinger
Honor Blackman in Goldfinger

Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet
Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet

Julie Benz, Rebecca Gayheart, and Rose McGowan in Jawbreaker
Julie Benz, Rebecca Gayheart, and Rose McGowan in Jawbreaker

Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers
Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers

Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
Kathleen Turner in Body Heat

Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface
Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface

Pam Grier in Coffy
Pam Grier in Coffy

Patricia Arquette in True Romance
Patricia Arquette in True Romance

Rachel True, Neve Campbell, and Fairuza Balk in The Craft
Rachel True, Neve Campbell, and Fairuza Balk in The Craft

Rooney Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Rooney Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise

Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction

Winona Ryder in Heathers
Winona Ryder in Heathers
This week, it was confirmed that Heathers will be made into a television series, inspiring us to revisit the cult 1988 film and its girl gang of four—particularly Winona Ryder’s Veronica character, who, with a swingy bob, just-pinched cheeks, and powerful glare, is foreboding from the moment she steps on-screen. In spite of her nice-girl past, it’s an infallible beauty equation that means trouble. “Do I look like Mother Teresa?” asks Kim Walker, who plays the film’s meanest Heather. No offense to Mother Teresa, but she doesn’t. In fact, a look back at film classics proves that no bad girls do. We already know the Heathers will destroy everything in their path, because if hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, the world knows no trouble like a woman who understands her allure.

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

Emerald Eyeliner Is Back! How to Pull Off Spring’s Prettiest Makeup Trend

Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner in Ivy Shimmer Ink
Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner in Ivy Shimmer Ink

Estée Lauder Double Wear Infinite Waterproof Eyeliner in Blackened Emerald
Estée Lauder Double Wear Infinite Waterproof Eyeliner in Blackened Emerald

Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Gel Eye Crayon Eyeliner in O(Vert)
Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Gel Eye Crayon Eyeliner in O(Vert)

Maybelline New York Master Smoky Longwearing Shadow Pencil in Emerald Fury
Maybelline New York Master Smoky Longwearing Shadow Pencil in Emerald Fury

NARS Cosmetics Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Rue de Rivoli
NARS Cosmetics Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Rue de Rivoli

Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner in Emerald
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.

Lindsey Wixson’s Bold Wing of Black Eyeliner: Wear It for Saturday Brunch!

Lindsey Wixson
 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
Dior Diorshow Art Pen in Catwalk Black
Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturizer Sunscreen
Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturizer Sunscreen
Bumble and Bumble Prêt-à-Powder
Bumble and Bumble Prêt-à-Powder
Saint Laurent Leopard-print silk crepe de chine scarf










The Feathered Brow, Backstage at Jil Sander: Makeup Artist Pat McGrath’s 2-Second Trick to Getting It Right

Jil Sander

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
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

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.
To a seemingly endless list of top-tier fashion houses—Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, and Louis Vuitton among them—makeup artist Pat McGrath is the creative force behind the directional beauty looks that emerge on their runways each season, from exaggerated plumed brows (Alexander McQueen) to glittering, full-face masks (Givenchy). But to her legions of model fans, who walk in those shows each season, the British powerhouse is also a much-loved confidante—lending support and, naturally, makeup advice to those who settle into her chair. Backstage this week at the New York collections (where McGrath’s hand could be seen at Victoria Beckham, Kanye West x Adidas, and Diane von Furstenberg), we asked eight models to share one game-changing beauty lesson they’ve learned from the master herself. After all, Mother—as she’s often called—knows best.

Caroline Trentini
I’ve learned over the years to work with what's good on my face, and so I extend my eyebrows a little bit. That was Pat. In the beginning, when we were working with Steven [Meisel], she studied my features and said, "You need to ask people to extend your eyebrows because it gives your face a better shape." [I usually] go with a lighter color, like a taupe-ish eye shadow, rather than a darker color; it blends in a little more and looks more natural. The more you try to make the simple things perfect—that's the key. Because in the end, you don't want to look like you spent two hours doing your makeup.

Daria Strokous
I learned from Pat how to apply a colorful lipstick with my finger. Not a stain, but to really, fully put it on. It’s the way she rolls the finger against the lip. I can't do it with a brush or the actual lipstick; only with a finger. That's probably the coolest thing she’s taught me. Because the lip is not super drawn-on. If it's not too bright a color, it almost looks like your lips.

Drake Burnette
One thing that has stood out in my mind is putting on eye makeup. I’m not worried so much about it being perfect anymore because I feel like makeup artists always are saying, ‘Oh, we want it to look like she did it herself.’ It’s more of a kind of real beauty than this impossible attempt at perfection, and I like that. For me, that’s Pat. She comes up with a makeup look, but she wants it to be sort of individualized to each girl, to bring out the best of each girl’s beauty.

Hilary Rhoda
Contouring the cheekbones and the eye sockets. It enhances everything, and then you don't really have to do much else. I just use bronzer or a taupe color. I want to get ready fast, so whatever I brush over my cheeks, I also do it on my eyes. I think [contour] is something that you start from and you can build on it, but that's always the starting point.

Ondria Hardin
To make yourself look really awake, you can use a shiny [Madina Milano] highlighting stick or any pale, pearly product. I learned that from Pat. You dab it in the corners of your eyes and on the Cupid's bow of your mouth. It just brightens everything up. She also taught me to do a smoky eye with my fingers, and ever since I started doing that I haven’t picked up a brush.

Sasha Luss
You always need a shiny stick! She puts it on the cheekbones, on the nose [along the bridge], a bit here above the lip, and inside the eyes, right there in the corner. That one makes your face look really fresh and glowy and shiny and pretty. It really pumps it up.

Why a Raspberry Matte Lip Suddenly Feels Fresh: Carolina Herrera’s Modern Makeup Moment


Carolina Herrera’s Modern Makeup Moment
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.


MAC Lipstick in Rebel, $16 ; maccosmetics.com
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