With four emerging designers showing at St George’s annual Next Gen runway, the challenge for Napoleon Perdis Senior Makeup Artist Anna Papadopoulos was to create a beauty look that would work with four distinctly different collections.
“I spied hints of metallics and coppers in the collections and I was inspired to create a palette around that,” Anna tells me. “The look ties in with all the designers today- it’s really going to complement the clothes.”
The result is a sultry earth toned, eye pared back with fresh skin and a terracotta stained lip. “I’ve used lots of rusty oranges, coppers and browns used around the eye with just a hint of mascara to really give the look a bit of a grungey feel, almost like the models have done it themselves.”
When creating the eye look, Anna worked with three Napoleon Colour Discs– Green Living, an iridescent rust brown, Tequila Sunrise, a matte orange, and Amazon Jungle, a dark shimmering peach.
“We’ve concentrated the brown around the lash line then we’ve moulded and fused the colours together,” says Anna. “We’ve personalised the look for each and every model.” Given the individual eye shapes of each girl, Anna instructs her team to create a shapes with the eyeshadow that cater to each of them. “I’ve said to the team ‘If you want to taper it out you can, if you want to round it off you can.’”
Anna’s love of mixing products to create custom shades extends to lip colour too, with Anna mixing the Terracotta and Pinot Noir lip pencils together and pressing them in to the lips with the fingertips to create a custom lip stain.
“A key product for me is Matte Bronze,” says Anna of her approach to skin. “We’ve created a really fresh base, embracing the model’s own skin and letting it shine through.” Paring back the skin also makes the look more wearable away from the runway, with Anna encouraging women to embrace eye colour this season. “If you take this look back, even by 50%, it absolutely works as an everyday look as well.”
