The beauty look at Richard Quinn’s fall 2022 show was a display of maximalist lashes against a blank canvas of majestic luminous skin—or, in the words of Terry Barber, director of makeup artistry at MAC, “grunge with good quality skin—a conditioned grunge.”
Shying away from the classic fluttery lash, Barber decided to go in a different direction. Using the tip of the MACStack Mascara wand (launching March 1, 2022), he did a “slightly clumpy doll lash,” he explained backstage, “but rather than brush through with the comb, I’m pulling them together in little bundles. It’s another way of doing grunge, without using eyeliner—a grungy attitude statement with mascara.” He continued, “when you think you’ve done too much, do two more coats.”
In order to get a “mood” from the minimalist look, Barber bleached the eyebrows of the models to “add some edge to their faces without doing anything with makeup,” he added. “Alien, glam-rock, David Bowie—it can be a little bit androgynous. A brow can be ever so slightly feminine, so when you take it away, it works as a blank canvas.” An alternative statement popularly used in fashion, the otherworldly bleached eyebrow represents to Barber the importance of coloring outside the lines. He says, “What we do as makeup artists is play with the ugly. Everything in beauty to beautify has been done, but to play with the ugly, that to me is being a makeup artist. You’ve got to challenge rules and break them a little bit, do the opposite of what people think is right to do.”
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