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Carmen Marc Valvo’s SS18 New York Fashion Week Showcase was one to be remembered. The new line lived up to it’s “endless summer” concept, in a line that featured a mixture of flowy breathable white and lots lots  of florals,   

The Knockturnal got the exclusive chance to chat with the beauty makers behind the elegantly raw  showcase, backstage during their prepping process.  Makeup Artist, Romero Jennings and nail tech Phylicia, shared their best behind the scenes beauty tips.

Makeup Artist: Romero Jennings

The Makeup Look Behind

“Carmen’s girl this season is modern mermaid, so when you think about that you think about something that is a bit fantasy, but still real. Like everyone’s fantasy is a mermaid, but how do you make it achievable? So in my head I’m like thinking, you know it needs to be a neutral shadow as a base, and that represents sand. And then I wanted to add color which represents the water. So I wanted to add crystals and also some glitter but I really put clusters and clusters of it and the most important part is that it’s even so it’s almost a little bit imperfect and a little bit messy. So in Asia they have something called wabi-sabi which is imperfect perfection which I feel like now women are thinking, I don’t always have to be perfect. If something’s always a little bit off it makes it a little more young, more edgy, more fresh. Even with that, Carmen’s girl has a little bit of sophistication, so I felt like we needed to refine the brow a little there needs to be a little bit of smoke and mascara. So we made her a pretty modern mermaid.”

Key Products Used:

“Glitter and appliques- just some little pieces to make you really, really see the shine. Appliques are what it’s all about and people are glueing on all types of things that are non makeup products and this is like taking it to the next level and making it more modern.”

Face:

Studio Fx Powder

“Show Gold Extra Dimension Skin Finish

“Flaming” Femme Eyeshadow from Mischief Minx on the apples of cheeks

Studio Fx Powder to retain shine.

Eyes:

Chromografphic pencil in waterline to open the eyes

Naughty Mascara

Quite Natural paint pot + bottom

Schemes eyeshadow from ‘Mischief Mix’

Teal holographic glitter

Lips

Glitter “Ess-presso”, “burnt-spice” “topped with Brandy”all retro matte lip color

This Season’s Hottest Makeup Trends:

“It’s definitely glitter, glitter is in. Get ready to learn how to put it on and wear it.”

Nail Tech, Phylicia:

On the ‘Carmen Marc Vavlo’ Nail Look

“Right now we’re working with Orly nude breathable color line, the look for the show we wanted to work with something sort of soft and feminine but also have to play around with the color a little bit just to give it a bit of a pop. So we are using two coats of ‘Vacation’ and one coat of anything goes and ‘Anything Goes’ has a nice shimmer and iridescent shine to it, so we wanted to use that as a top coat.”

How the Nails Complement the SS18 collection:

“So the colors are kind of muted, they go with anything since it’s a neutral color, it’s like a soft grey with an undertone of purple. We met with the designer and he fell in love with the color, we thought it was a multifunctional color that goes pretty well with every piece, it goes well with oranges, yellows, and he has a lot of blues in the collection.”

This season’s hottest nail colors:

“Autumn, colors with a bit of a twist on it. So an orange would be a fall color, but a twist that would spice it up would be a neon!”