Chanel’s means to create make-up tendencies, must-haves and obsessions assortment after assortment is commendable, and has at all times been the long-lasting style home’s particular reward. Certain sufficient, when photos of the main points first emerged from Wednesday evening’s Métiers d’Artwork 2019/20 present, the sweetness networks went into overdrive. And it wasn’t simply the make-up that made us wish to attain for our glowiest highlighter (take a look at the pores and skin right here) it was the nails too, created by nail artist extraordinaire Jenny Longworth.
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The standout design on fashions’ nails was the immediately recognisable double C brand, set on pearly white polish. The tender, rounded nails had been paying homage to the fake brand nails that had been well-liked a couple of years in the past and which have began to pop up once more on Instagram – however this time with an authenticity stamp from the style home. The well-known brand, etched onto the nails for the catwalk, mirrored the present’s inspiration, which noticed different hallmarks of Chanel – just like the Artwork Deco staircase from 31 rue Cambon in Paris – reimagined to kind a part of the set.
“I used to be impressed by Chanel’s iconic staircase inside the well-known high fashion salon in Paris,” says Longworth. “The mirrored staircase impressed me to create two appears to be like, together with crystals for a light-weight reflective, dreamlike impact, paired with Chanel’s traditional colors so as to add a female, elegant base. The double C nails added a witty Chanel nod to their traditional codes, and paid homage to the eye to element by the Metiers d’Artwork,” she provides. In reality, there have been three totally different manicures to enrich the three make-up appears to be like created by Lucia Pica. “We created a Chanel monogrammed nail, a nude nail with a singular clear crystal on the base, and a traditional rouge nail with a singular gold crystal on the base. In complete 70 units of nails had been made and tailor-made to every woman’s particular person nails.”
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Wish to recreate the Chanel nails at residence? Right here’s how:
“We used Chanel Ballerina, a traditional sheer trace of pink, and Mythique, a traditional rouge, one shade lighter than Rouge Noir. The nails had been primarily based with two coats of their particular person colors after which painstakingly adorned with both their crystal or monograms, utilizing tweezers or a crystal picker. We then sealed within the design with Chanel Le Prime Coat for added shine.” That’s our Christmas get together manicure sorted
then.
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