The legendary make-up artist Pat McGrath made heads turn with her otherworldly Maison Margiela make-up look, which has gone viral on the internet. John Galliano’s SS24 show took place on a 1920s-inspired bar-themed runway in Paris, inspiring talks of genius, history, and sublimation. The show was held under the Pont Alexandre III bridge in a nightclub or bar from one of Paris’s romantic soap operas, as the gentle breeze was blowing and waiters served toddies and candied violets. It was dubbed scrumptious, excessive, and imaginative, as the show was immersive and mesmerizing.
Pat McGarth has outdone herself by transforming Galliano’s models into porcelain dolls that came straight out of a collector’s glass encasing, with their ultra-shiny smooth and polished skin, pencil-thin doll-like eyebrows, and vibrant, colorfully painted makeup. This doll-like make-up aesthetic brought to the trend by the artist has gone viral on social media. With people clamoring over how McGrath recreated the otherworldly look and texture of the porcelain skin on the models, turning them into living dolls, social media users all over the world have been sharing their self-made recreations of the models supernatural glow from the Maison Margiela show. Videos have also reemerged, giving viewers step-by-step details on how to achieve the glass skin effect. The doll-like make-up look from the show has gone viral, and theories have been flooding in about the Pat McGarths look, but how exactly did she create this magical makeup look?
Porcelain glass skin has served as the make-up theme at Maison Margiela’s SS24 show. The show contained a balance of fantastical and ghastly. The models walked the runway with a futuristic-looking, glamorous, and hyper-realistic glaze coated on their skin, featuring painterly watercolor-like eye shadow and doll-like colorful blush adorning their faces. The model’s brows were bleached and replaced by pencil-thin curves along with dark and deep shades of red and black glossy lipstick, which seemingly had a light-reflecting finish, to achieve the doll-like look. The make-up artist McGrath’s inspiration for the real-life porcelain dolls came from Margiela’s collection, which is said to explore the ritual of dressing and the clothes we wear as an expression of emotions.
McGarth has broken down on how to achieve the porcelain doll look, in which she reveals that she prepped the Margiela model’s skin with Pat McGrath Labs Diving Skin: Rose 001 Essence and then topping it off with her Sublime Perfection Foundation. For the model’s eyes, she has applied a blend of shades from the Mothership I Subliminal Eyeshadow Palette, and for their cheeks, the Models were painted with Divine Blush: Legendary Glow Color Balm in circular shapes placed on the apples of the cheeks. For the lips, the artist has smudged the PermaGel UltraGlide Eye Pencil in the shade Blitz Brown on the center of the models lips and then applied the MatteTrance Lipstick in a crimson shade called Guinevere, and she finished the look by blurring the edges of the lips with her fingers. She skipped setting powder and dusted a layer of her Sublime Perfection Under Eye Blurring Powder, and then she utilized a cotton swab to apply glue near the mouth, nose, and inner eyes, which was stated as an essential step that prevents the peel-off mask mixture from lifting.
For the glass skin effect, McGrath has used a plastic spoon to whisk four peel-off face masks mixed with distilled water, which thinned out the mixture enough to pour it into an airbrush machine. She sprayed this mixture onto the models face while covering their eyes, and then she applied the mixture in a thin, even coat. She then dries the initial layer with a hair dryer and then repeats the procedure until she has eight layers. To finish off the whole look, Mcgarth used Lust Lip Gloss in the shades Peach Perversion and Flesh Astral so that the shine wouldn’t lift up and crease. The artist has hinted that she is yet to release her own glass skin product, but in the meantime, the products needed to try and recreate Pat McGrath’s porcelain make-up at home are as she has listed.
