![]() Sandy Linter, a makeup artist for Lancôme who did her first Vogue cover in 1974 and appears to carry around a visual archive Clearly, minimalism - of a sophisticated, sleight-of-hand sort - has alwaysīeen around as an option, just as exaggerated makeup has always been part of the fashion story. Less is more? Here I had been thinking of Bandy as a creator of intricately painted, precisely contoured visages, the opposite of what I considered to be the relatively recent push toward a new minimalism in makeup, exemplifiedīy the sort of glowing, nearly-bare faces one saw coming down the runway at the spring fashion shows of designers like Jil Sander, Isabel Marant, Use as many or as few of these cosmetic techniques as you feel comfortable with. Tucked away in Bandy’s introduction: “The face designs given here are timeless and ageless. What I hadn’t remembered, though, and which I came upon with surprise, was this piece of advice To create foundation, and “three tiny dabs” of different colors to create the right shade of lipstick. Were the simple black-and-white line drawings by Bandy, just as I recalled them there, too, were the baroque recipes for combining “nickel”- and “pea”-size amounts of different liquids and lotions Recently I ordered a ravaged, out-of-print copy of his book, just to see if I was exaggerating Bandy’s techniques. In my memory, foundation alone required mixing together four or five ingredients. ![]() To this day I cannot look in the mirror to apply makeup without thinking of the detailed, almost scientific directives that filled his book - as fascinating to read as they were impossible to reproduce. See entire list of cosmetics and tools here. The makeup artist Tina Turnbow gives a tutorial on how to create the sophisticated, minimalist look of the season.Through, enhanced by his touch - although he was also known for his ability to transform a woman’s face entirely, when the occasion called for it. He did so in such a way that the personality of the woman was felt to come Superstar makeup artist (Kevyn Aucoin worshiped him), Bandy was paid thousands an hour and flown far and wide for his skills with applying pigment. ![]() In an age before Pat McGrath and Bobbi Brown, before the invention of the Bandy, who, from the early 1970s on, worked on the faces of models and celebrities - everyone from Cheryl Tiegs to Cher - was the first maestro of ![]() More…ĭoes anyone remember Way Bandy? It’s been more than three decades since the publication of his best-selling book, “ Designing Your Face,”Īnd more than two decades since he died in 1986 at age 45. The model Deborah Mace for Elite transforms, with makeup by Tina Turnbow. ![]()
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