TV and movie characters have always had an impact on mainstream beauty trends. For example “Rachel” hair cut from Friend, or Maximum makeup in Happiness brought rhinestone-encrusted eyes into the mainstream. Occasionally, a particular beauty product worn by a fictional pop culture icon has gone viral after going viral on TikTok. This, of course, happened to Clinique’s Black Honey after it was correctly identified as the lipstick that Liv Tyler used in Lord of the RingsS.But the latest pop-culture-inspired makeup that has TikTok girls rushing to fill their Sephora strollers is rooted in the dark side. It’s the goth inspired makeup seen in Wednesdaythe The Addams . family spinoff series with stars our recent cover star, Jenna Ortegain the lead role.
Are from Wednesdaylaunched on November 23, it was won the record Most hours watched in a week for English-language TV series on Netflix. It also spawned a huge number of #Wednesday makeup tutorials on TikTok (reaching over 43 million views) with users recreating the protagonist’s subtle smoky eyes and ripe plum lips. Lip look, use MAC cosmetics Nightmoth Color Lip Pencil ($21)quickly sold out after the brand’s global trends executive, Cat Quinn, Share the details on the app.
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While Ortega’s Wednesday shares the same taste for braids and Peter Pan necklaces as Christina Ricci’s in the original. The Addams . family movies, her makeup is much more different. According to the show’s hair and makeup designer, Tara McDonald, the character recap for Wednesday is sharp, modern, and topical. She told us, “I want Wednesdays to have strong, different but natural lips — almost like ‘just had a bite’. “This can be achieved with tinted, matte and matte lip balms, but in this case, after trying out a variety of colors and applications, we decided on MAC in Nightmoth and Dr. . PawPaw’s Multi-Purpose Soothing Oil ($6).”
Other products used for Wednesday’s “half-dead” look include MAC in Brown Script Eyeshadow on her eyelids, creases, and under eyes; afterward Carbon, an intense deep black, below her eyes; and glitch in matrix, a metallic grey, in the upper lash line. (Brown Script is no longer available, but we love the shade Light brown Replace.)
For skin products, McDonald’s says it used various matte foundations that were always applied sparingly with a moist beauty sponge to Ortega’s face, neck, and hands with a shade or two lighter. the actor’s skin color. “Wednesday always looks fuzzy,” she explains. “The application was very clear — I wanted her freckles to come out.” McDonald’s also uses MAC’s sculpting powder in sculpture and Shadowy for the border.
For the hairstyle Wednesday wore in episode four’s iconic dance scene, McDonald’s found inspiration from an unlikely, non-goth source: Alexa Chung. Model braids milk in one L’Oréal hair campaign 2013, and McDonald found it perfect for the scene. “That look was etched in my mind,” she said. “I took some inspiration from that to watch Rave’N on Wednesday.”
Wednesday isn’t the only character to have a modern makeover. Anjelica Huston’s ’90s Morticia is known for her red lipstick, but McDonald’s opted to “change the palette,” using darker makeup for Catherine Zeta-Jones. “I wanted to add more purple, mahogany and plum,” she said. “These colors make Catherine’s dark eyes pop and look glamorous.” McDonald says she only had one day of testing with Zeta-Jones to get the look right; together, they decided to use warm plum tones for the lips, using the now discontinued Tom Ford Bruised Plum lipstick. (However, we’ve provided two similar options that you can shop below.)
For Morticia’s waist-length hair, a daily clip-on extension was used. “Catherine is a great collaborator and very knowledgeable about makeup, so we came together to create this modern Morticia,” McDonald said.
Anyone who missed Morticia’s fiery red pout could be pleased with the look of Headmaster Larissa Weems. Weems, played by Gwendoline Christie, is “a lifelong Hitchcock blonde!” according to McDonald. She is always seen with her red lips, attributed to Code8’s Opera, at least for the first few episodes until McDonald’s runs out of stock.
She explained: “We are filming in Romania during the pandemic. “Lisa Eldridge sent me a red collection to try on for her. We settle on her gorgeous Velvet Ribbon. MAC’s Redd Lip Liner works perfectly with both.
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