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Amber D, senior artist at MAC Cosmetics, gives us the low-down on Kate Sylvester's Marilyn Monroe-inspired make-up direction.
- Amber D
There is a common syndrome that goes down for me every fashion week I do, some of the symptoms include: forgetting what day it is and what show I am at, sleeplessness, M.A.C-mares (which involve waking from a brief sleep thinking that I have no time to be asleep at midnight when there's still eyeliner to be done!) Today I seem to have lost a whole lot of the day. Last thing I remember is arriving in torrential rain to the MBFWA venue and beginning makeup for the Flannel show that my pal James Molloy was directing. James is pretty fabulous and just happens to be the Director of Artistry for M.A.C Asia Pacific. The look was a creamy taupe dream using the textures of the season: M.A.C cream colour bases in all shades of taupe and a glossed eyelid by slicking on a wash of M.A.C lip conditioner! Love a multi tasker.
After a quick break for a glamorous high fashion lunch (room service all day breakfast watching talk shows on TV in my M.A.C accomplice Carol's hotel room) I was back at the fashion week venue but this time it was to lead the M.A.C makeup team for the Kate Sylvester show.
There are many things I love about Kate Sylvester. Kate and Wayne are a delight to collaborate with and M.A.C has a great long standing relationship with them. I can't express how great it is when creatives are able to let other people genuinely bring something to the table when working on a collaboration. The charming and insanely talented Richard Kavanagh was on hair duty (or "hair brushing" as he calls it) and the icing on the New Zealand backstage cake was Karen Inderbitzen-Waller, photographer and stylist who always works with Kate.
For the Kate Sylvester show the inspiration was Marilyn Monroe in the Joe DiMaggio stage, so I created a girl who reflected that idea by playing with intensity of colour via a wild pink lip paired with various textures on the rest of the face. The lip was the hero, a bold shape that kept the eye drawn to the mouth and intense layers of colour for a major pop! We applied M.A.C 'Embrace Me' lip pencil all over hydrated lips then painted on a generous amount of 'Candy Yumyum' lipstick. This is a new M.A.C cult lipstick which I'm sure will be as iconic as 'Ruby Woo' or 'Lady Danger'!
To finish the lip we lightly powdered it then applied magenta lip pencil through the middle of the lip for added dimension to the shape.
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