In London, makeup artists favored foil sheets you get at art shops over traditional eye shadow this season. Case in point: at Erdem, Lynsey Alexander applied real silver leaf all over the lids, a nod to the designer's inspiration for the collection, which was photographer Cecil Beaton's gelatin silver prints from the 1920s and '30s.
"We wanted the silver to look fragmented, delicate, and otherworldly," Alexander explained backstage. To do that, she applied a thin layer of Egyptian Magic cream over the eye, put the sheet over the lid, then dabbed a medium-size shadow brush over the leaf repeatedly to break it up so "it almost looks shattered." To echo the shine on the lips, Alexander topped them off with the clear Nars Afterglow Lip Balm ($28).
