Rachel Goodwin Makeup

I am a make up artist who just so happens to live for a smokey eye, so when I was getting January ready to co-host her charity cocktail party last night with her friends at Vanity Fair and Louis Vuitton I decided to pull out a cool navy version that, if must say so myself, looked pretty darn gorgeous!

January is such a rare beauty. I never cease to be inspired by her fearless sense of style. I paired the deep Navy shadow on her eyes with Nars soft apricot cheek color in Enchanted and a sheer orange lip color by Nars called Casablanca. I am absolutely obsessed with Casablanca, I can’t stop thinking of ways to use it on everyone. It just screams Summer! I won’t ramble on and on about the wonders of a soft Coral—although I easily could—I highly recommend just putting it on and tell me it doesn’t instantly make you feel like you’re on vacation!

Style.com and Hollywood Life are loving it too!

Check out the July issue of C magazine with the insanely gorgeous January Jones on the cover! We shot the cover on the rooftop of the Thompson Beverly Hills a few months back with photographer Matthias Vriens McGrath.

It was an awesome day with tons of fabulous fashion provided by the amazing Elizabeth Stewart and hair perfection provided by none other than Mr. Mark Townsend, ever heard of him?

I love how the pictures turned out, they really seem to capture her cool fashion sensibility. I used an Chanel aubergine eyeshadow called “Magic Night” on her eyes and Tom Ford’s blush nude on her lips for the cover and my fav lip color of the moment Shisiedo Perfect Rouge in Fuchsia for the inside. Cool color palette, cool girl!

Here are some of my fav behind the scenes pics from our day on set.

I’m back from my trip to NY for the Met Ball and finally able to sit down and write a proper post! This year the Gala was all about the American woman and I was doing January Jones’—who was muse for the night of Stefano Pilati, designer and creative director of Yves Saint Laurent. What an incredible fashion house to inherit, what a legacy! Stefano’s vision was very much about the woman of tomorrow and January being so well known for playing Betty Draper, the quintessential American ’60s housewife, was thrilled.

Style.com got it!

So did Illamasqua (one of my favorite make up lines)

The dress was quite avant garde but this was fashion’s big night, right? Not the Emmy’s for God’s sake! Stefano wanted a tough, futuristic edge to her make up and hair, and January being totally fearless when it comes to fashion was all to happy to oblige. The result was somewhere between David Bowie and Pris from Blade Runner with a little bit of Victor and Rolf’s Spring 2010 runway thrown in for good measure.

What a brave, unconventional choice and I love her for taking it! I kept the make up from going too ’80s new wave by using one singular color shade, a gunmetal grey. Instead of shading, I kept the same intensity across the entire eye and up toward the hairline. The modernity came from using barely any other make up on the face with the exception of a little contouring and a nude lipstick.

My inspiration was clearly more runway for this look, which I have to say, was so refreshing. Experimentation is all to rare in these times of the ubiquitous Hollywood red carpet. What would happen today if Cher showed up to the Oscars in her barely there Bob Mackie head dress and all, and nobody could attack her on the interwebs? Isn’t Fashion meant to be radical, creative and oh yeah, fun? Isn’t it really just an adult version of dress up? Have the tabloid terrorists really taken all the fun out of it?

Who knows what people will be wearing 10 or 20 years from now? Suffice to say we’d all be shocked if we had a time machine. So many of the looks from the Spring runways felt like dreams of what’s to come. Who knows,  all I can say is that my version of the future looks bright.