Action packed fashion weeks supported by the backbone of choreographers, model coordinators and of-course the make-up artist. The make-up not only compliments the clothes, it creates the entire imagery of the designer in a larger than life picture. And undoubtedly when the buyers and style analysts are scrutinizing the upcoming trends form the ramp its time also for the make-up to announce their trend axioms. At the just concluded Wills Lifestyle Fashion Week Spring Summer 2011 Fashionfad.in sits in talks with the Mickey Contractor, a name that reckons magical make-up wand touches to Bollywood’s most famous faces. And he is the one who sets India’s strongest beauty trends on the catwalk and off it. This season with his M.A.C team Mickey has sketched the looks for Tarun Tahiliani, JJ Valaya, Pankaj & Nidhi, Prashant Verma, Akaaro by Gaurav Jai Gupta Varun Sardana and more.

How does the skin look for Spring Summer 2011?

The skin this season is luxurious, it’s neither too matte nor gloss and looks more like cashmere. And of course it’s again nude this time with very different flavour. (With a smirk he adds). Believe me nude is not that easy, to achieve a nude look involves an equally amount of art and patience.  This time the skin is dark rather than being tan and thus the makeup kit is profuse with a lot of browns, chocolate caramels and shocking fuchsia pinks. 

Is there any difference in adapting international make-up trends in the Indian scenario?

There are adaptations according to skin colour and types but this time all the colours of brown and mostly earthy are very flattering for the Indian browns skins, thus we have not been carrying out any major changes in the colour palette or treatment. The shows have also focused on the same nude no gloss and no matte look and further I sit with the designers to bring in sync what they want the girls to look like with the garments. For example Tarun’s show (grand Finale) though I still have to finalize other finer details but otherwise we are giving a strong uni-brow look for his show and plus different colours are infused. And this season also focuses on very strong contouring on the face thus the look is not flat at all but sharp and highlight the features. 

How are the lips for Spring Summer 2011?

The lips are natural and playing with the tones of saffron and orange for the lip colour. I won’t say that the colour is orange but shades and tone of it paint the lips for accent.

What is the look in the eyes? 

The eyes are smoky but this time it gets squarish rather than the Indian traditional long eyes. So that is achieved with applying highlights at the corner of the eyes near the nose and then it does not narrow on to the outer edge. There is an accent to the eyelashes and the eyebrows are made lighter. You can do this by simply applying foundation to the brows or one can also get it bleached to a nice golden brown. Most importantly there is absolutely no kohl in the eyes it can be dark brown or light but not the black kajal. 

And finally the scintillating make-up tip for the flawless look?

Never follow trends blindly pick them up and adapt them to suit your skin, face and precisely your personality.