With four distinctly different swimwear designers showing at MBFWA’s Swim runway, Napoleon Perdis Makeup Lead Kate Squires created four equally distinct beauty looks. From glossy skin and thick lashes to a new twist on the classic smokey eye, here are the Swim looks to adopt well before swim season rolls back around.
“The looks for Fella and Camp Cove are dewy and glossy and shiny,” says Kate. With skin the focus for the Fella woman, Kate relied heavily on the Multi-Hydrating Gel Cream to give the skin a polished finish. “It’s almost a gel moisturiser, but it settles to a nice dew on the skin.” Kate likens the finish to that of the skin after a peel- even and polished, rather than shiny or wet. Kate also reached for the Light Switch Luminzer Palette across all four looks if she felt they needed an extra boost of radiance, adding the product to the high points of the face. Knockout Lash was another key product, with Kate noting that the look is “quite simple, but the mascara gives it a “done” finish.”
For Camp Cove, the look is a little more “fun.” The focus on fresh, dewy skin remains, however Kate and her Napoleon team have added a pop of colour to the eye with winged liner in either a pastel lavender, a pastel mint or a marigold- a different look for each model. “We’ve added a nice hint of glossy sheen on the cheekbones and a nude matte peachy lip,” says Kate.
“Duskii is a little bit more “Resort”,” Kate tells me, “and she [the Duskii woman] is super bronzey and glowing with a bronze eye. It’s all quite shimmery and there’s a nice accent of gold on the centre of the eyelid- and lots of mascara!” The approach to skin is similarly amped up. “She’s much more luminous and metallic on the cheekbones, and then we’ve contrasted that with a nude matte on the lips.” The nude matte in question is a new product for Napoleon- Patrol It! Lipstick in Spinning, which Kate tells me works universally across a number of different skin tones.
For Pam Pam, the look is “a little bit Bridget Bardot, a little bit rock and roll.” The skin is still sun kissed, but the finish is slightly more matte in order to make the eye makeup the focus. “We’re smoking out the eye a bit more,” Kate tells me, “so it’s got a classic 60s smokey wing, but with an accent of pink.” Kate used the Loose Eye Dust in Fuschia Shock, which she demonstrates has a transparent finish that really pops when applied over the traditional black smokey eye. The key to keeping this look “really feminine and really sexy” is coating the top and bottom lashes in lots of black mascara to add even more intensity to the smoked-out lash lines.
