Dolce & Gabbana, Milan Fashion Week, Summer 2011: Show Review, Interview with Pat McGrath - Makeup and Beauty Blog

The look at the Dolce & Gabbana runway show; All backstage photo credits: Delphine Achard and Ludovic Belmonte

You know how sometimes you come across a expect come down the track and you're like, "Whoa! Where the heck did that beam down from? Enterprise, do you read me?"

Take the orange eyeshadow makeup artists sent Tom Cruisin' down the catwalk in New York not long agone. Don't get me wrong — I lurves me some brights, and I'thousand all for artistic expression when it comes to le state of war pigment, but information technology's also squeamish to see track looks I might actually wear in existent life.

Staring upwardly at the massively alpine models backstage before the Dolce & Gabbana Summer 2011 Style Calendar week show in Milan today, ii thoughts kept coming to listen: 1) I am extremely short, and ii) I'd wear that makeup in a *hawt* second.

While multitasking makeup artist extraordinaire Pat McGrath worked her magic backstage, wielding her brushes like wands, I tried to stay out of everyone'southward mode. As she zipped around from girl to girl, dabbing a bit more chroma here, reapplying a pair of false lashes there, she also gave feedback to the army of makeup artists assembled for the prove.

The look — a sensual still natural face brushed with nude, pink and brown — was created to complement the ethereal fabrics ruling the show.

That's Pat on the right!

The Dolce & Gabbana models on the runway; All runway photograph credits: Monica Feudi

I had a feeling backstage would be hectic, merely I wasn't prepared for the maelstrom of bodies, makeup, motion and anarchy. And makeup.

Did I already say makeup? — because it was everywhere, covering every square inch of counter space ('twas glorious!), as if an angel had broken a piñata filled with the stuff, and it rained eyeshadow pans, pulverisation jars, brushes, and tubes of lipstick and gloss from above.

Most of the products were Dolce & Gabbana's, but I did meet a couple of things from other companies sprinkled around the room, similar MAC Face & Body Foundation, Benefit Powderflauge and Laura Mercier concealer.

I asked Pat what a regular Jane might practice to translate today's rail look into something easy to exercise at home. Her answer: Jane wouldn't have to alter a thing. Life, like makeup, doesn't ever accept to be hard.

Ah… Music to my ears. 🙂

To get the wait at home:

1. It all starts with sensual skin: For a salubrious looking sheet to work upon, Pat started past applying a shade of foundation perfectly matched to each model'due south face and body.
2. Get flushed cheeks with i of Pat's favorite blushes: Next, she created a matte pink flush by sweeping Dolce & Gabbana Powder Blush in Caramel (a product that Pat recommends every adult female accept in her makeup pocketbook) across the cheeks.
3. BIG bright eyes: Next fourth dimension you find yourself jet-lagged in a foreign state and running on four hours of sleep (LOL!), or pulling all-nighters before finals, create a wider, more open heart by lining both your upper and lower waterlines with a beige eyeliner. Pat used Dolce & Gabbana Nude liner.
4. Brand those peepers actually POP with 1 of Pat's favorite quads: She used the Dolce & Gabbana Nude Eyeshadow Palette extensively today. To make your eyes look a little chip more dramatic (merely not overly and then) draw a wet brush across the brown shades (mixing them), and employ the concoction along your lash lines. Then, piece of work the beige and peach colors into the sockets and beneath your eyes to add depth.
5. Mascara AND false lashes: To wrap up the eyes, Pat curled the lashes, then applied mascara to the upper ones only, finishing with falsies affixed forth the outer corners.
6. Lightly heighten the lips with a stain: Finally, a delicate colour for the lips. Pat mixed the shades from the shortly-to-be-released Jewel Lip Palette (I don't have a specific release engagement yet; should hit shelves within the adjacent few months) and lightly dabbed that onto the lips. What do ya call back of the red jeweled cover? Cute, huh? It holds four pans of Dolce & Gabbana lipstick in Nude, Devil, Dahlia and Ultra.

Speaking of upcoming products, hither's a tidbit about Dolce & Gabbana's new concealer: it comes in a click pen with a castor applicator (also expected within the next few months; I'll post the exact date soon). Pat raved about this one, calling it "astonishing" and "fantastic." She says it really clings to skin and does a keen task of covering upwardly dark circles.

Um…I CAN'T WAIT!

Pat likewise wanted to offer a few words for aspiring makeup artists. "Exist prepared to work hard," she said, "and be prepared to always listen no matter what the beef is. Don't have any ego. And accept a lot of fun."

Pretty good life communication there too.

And with that, like Keyser Söze from The Usual Suspects, she was gone! — disappearing into a miasma of models and makeup, LOL! 🙂

I'd actually thought I'd be able to take some pictures backstage, but no such luck. Security was tighter than usual, just the official house photographers did a pretty good job.

Your friendly neighborhood (star-struck) beauty addict and Pat

So what do ya call back of the clothes and makeup? I'm digging both, only in that location's no way I could wear a white outfit all day long without getting nutrient (gelato!) or cat hair on it. Clumsy + food + true cat = frequent mode disasters. Information technology is what it is.

This Is Random…

This is random, but after the show I ran into Bryan, the fabulous style blogger behind bryanboy.com. I wish you could run into our legs in this pic, but homeboy was wearing some killer wedge cork heels, and each of his thighs — swear to god! — were one-half the size of mine. Notation TO Self: Stop eating so much Nutella. Oh, forget it. Actually, who am I kidding?

As I was dragging my rear stop out of the venue to come up back hither, the folks from Swide Magazine (check out their video of the rail show) actually stopped and asked ME for an on-camera interview with THEM. I think I but got in the shot past blow, LOL! I haven't seen the interview yet and don't know if they'll actually post it anywhere visible to other humans, but if they do I'll let y'all know!

Information technology's coming up on 3AM here and so I'm off to hit the haaay! As the Italians say information technology, "Buona notte!"

Your friendly neighborhood beauty aficionado,

Karen

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