London fashion week: Backstage watch

BIBA Eyes at Jean Pierre Braganza

“Jean Pierre wanted something a bit gothic, a bit romantic but still quite bad-ass,” Terry Barber, MAC’s head of artistry, told me. “I thought of BIBA girls in the ’60s, with their dark, hollowed-out eyes and wanted to make the look modern.”

Terry began by lining the bottom lashes with a steely grey shadow, MAC Eyeshadow in Maiden, €15.50, and blending downwards. He then blended the line outward and then smudged it up and into the socket with an eye-shadow brush to create an oval, winged shape that continued into the inner corners. Terry dusted a metallic green shadow, MAC Eye Shadow in Seafoam, €15.50, over the eyelid and into the blended line. He lit up the look with a white pencil line, MAC Eye Kohl in Fascinating, €17.50, extending outward from the inner corners, above the bottom lash-line.