Who: Manning Cartell
When: 5.00pm, April 30. The Scotts Church, Darlinghurst.
Inspiration: "Frida Kahlo is the inspiration behind the collection both as an artist and a style icon, for her audacious love of colour and fearless layering of prints and textures."
Click here for images from the Manning Cartell MBFWA show.
Hair: Alan White for ghd
Hair style: "Frida Kahlo and Mexico. Basically influenced by her love of texture, colour, flowers and the earth. We're doing a little nod to her without it being so literal, we're trying to make it more youthful. We're adding colour, which gives us the Frida tip because she was always into adding colour to her hair with different fabrics and textures and different braiding techniques. Instead of doing a braid, we're doing a twist and we've added the colour in. We're primarily using ghd Smoothing Finish Serum and that gives us that wet look feel reminiscent of the heat of the Mexican sun - that sweaty look," says Alan White.
Make-up: Max May for
Make-up style: "The inspiration was Frida Kahlo and a hot Mexican summer - so it's all about a brow and dewy skin. We're filling the brow really lightly and making it a little square, and then we're using an eye gloss mixed in with a pearl M.A.C cream and putting it across the eye, on the cheek bones, ridge of the nose and the bow of the lip - so it's a bit of a hot, sweaty, dewy finish," says Max May.
Face:
M.A.C Face and Body Foundation
M.A.C Pearl Cream Colour Base
Eyes:
M.A.C Havana Eye Shadow
M.A.C Sumptuous Olive Eye Shadow
M.A.C Amber Lights Eye Shadow
Lips:
M.A.C Cream D Nude Lipstick
M.A.C Dim Lip Erase
Skin:
La Prairie Cleansing Emulsion
La Prairie Cleansing Water
La Prairie Cellular Platinum Rare
"We've been doing mini facials on all the models basically to calm and refresh their skin because a lot of them have been doing a couple of shows prior to today and prior to the Manning Cartell show. We've been using the La Prairie Cleansing Emulsion or La Prairie Cleansing Water followed by our beautiful Cellular Platinum Rare. So we're using a $1500 cream on their face, basically to calm all the redness and restore it back to its beautiful state," says La Prairie marketing and public relations manager Ai San Chew.
Nails:
"We're doing a bright green on a stick on nail and white toes which looks stunning with their orange and turquoise shoes," says OPI educator Gina Schacht.
Click here for images from the Manning Cartell MBFWA show.