London Fashion Week Fall Winter 2010. Show: Vivenne Westwood Red Label. Makeup by MAC Cosmetics.

The look and inspiration: “Vivienne’s brief was for slightly boyish makeup that embraced the idea of shadows from light , so I looked to the photography of Penn and Avedon and how they would shape and shade a face with light .” – Gordon Espinet

Vivenne Westwood Red Label Fall 2010 MAC Cosmetics makeup face chart

The makeup breakdown. All products by MAC Cosmetics.

Eyes:
POWDER BLUSH IN TAUPE, EYE SHADOW IN QUARRY, EYE SHADOW IN COPPERPLATE – All washed (layered from Taupe to Copperplate) from the lash line to the brow with a soft 224 brush, and taken beneath the eye and down the sides of the nose with a 219 brush.

NO MASCARA

FACE:
STROBE LIQUID mixed with FACE AND BODY FOUNDATION IN WHITE and either C1 or C2 – to give the skin a translucent pallor, a dreamlike glow

POWDER BLUSH IN TAUPE – as a foundation for the contour

EYE SHADOW IN QUARRY – to cool down the colour

EYE SHADOW IN COPPERPLATE – to deepen the shadows

All applied with a 116 brush for an airbrushed effect, on the cheekbones, temples, ears and jaw .

*Half the girls have shading on both sides of their face, 7 have shading only on the left, 7 only from the right .

Lip:
LIP ERASE IN PALE – applied to the lips

LIP PENCIL IN STONE – applied to the top lip only, and beneath the lower lip

EYE SHADOW IN COPPERPLATE – layered over the lip pencil for a matte grey brown tone