Soft to editorial.
Monochromatic Makeup
One colour family carried across eye, cheek and lip.
Written by Lamyaa Aissi, professional makeup artist, Casablanca.
Where it sits
Soft to 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
Shade relationship. The three placements must be genuinely the same family.
On Moroccan skin, in a Moroccan climate
Warm families — terracotta, bronze, brick — work across the widest range of local skin tones.
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.
When it is the wrong choice
Nothing categorically.
Questions
What defines monochromatic makeup?
One colour family carried across eye, cheek and lip.
What is the one technique monochromatic makeup depends on?
Shade relationship. The three placements must be genuinely the same family.
Does monochromatic makeup work on Moroccan skin tones?
Warm families — terracotta, bronze, brick — work across the widest range of local skin tones.
When is monochromatic makeup the wrong choice?
Nothing categorically.
The work
Other styles
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