Editorial.

Festival Makeup

Colour, glitter and graphic elements, built for daylight and movement.

Written by Lamyaa Aissi, professional makeup artist, Casablanca.

Where it sits

Editorial.

Editorial sits outside the natural-to-glam scale entirely. It serves a concept and a camera, and it is judged on whether the picture works rather than on whether the wearer looks like herself.

The technique it depends on

Adhesion. Everything decorative needs a proper base or it migrates within the hour.

On Moroccan skin, in a Moroccan climate

Heat and glitter are a poor combination; expect migration and place it accordingly.

Underneath all of it: most Moroccan skin runs olive or golden, so cool taupes and greyed tones read as dullness rather than depth. Warm bronze, copper and terracotta do the work instead.