The makeup at the 3.1 Phillip Lim spring show was inspired by the famous Steve McCurry “Afghan Girl” National Geographic portrait. Using the then unreleased matte garnet NARS eyeshadow Grenadines, makeup artist Ayako encircled the the to give it depth and then blended black and blue eyeliner on the top and bottom lashes. While red certainly doesn’t sound like a very flattering shade to put on your lids- and adding black and blue to the mix sounds even worse- it surprisingly looks pretty cool. It manages to be dramatic and modern and at the same time almost looks natural and just a little dirty.

I think this is a look I definitely want to try. I’m thinking I need a bit more of a tan to pull it off and I’ll keep it simple with smokey ring around the eye and some black eyeshadow.

Grenadines, the NARS shadow used on the 3.1 Phillip Lim runway is now available to us common-folk, so there is no need to search high and low for the perfect similar color. Woohoo.

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