Twentysevennames & Juliette Hogan

Makeup – Jo Roughan for M.A.C

Because they were showing jointly all three designers had to compromise on what hair and makeup they wanted for their models – there would be no time for much of a change between one collection to the other.

If you ask me though, it looks like Rachel and Anjali did more compromising than Juliette as this is very much a J Ho (as we affectionately call her) look. The top knot, the dark kohl liner on the upper lid and the falsies – it’s a look that Juliette keeps returning to.

The only difference was the lipstick – for twentysevennames the models wore Dim Lip Erase and Vegas Volt with the emphasis placed on the cupids bow. For Juliette Hogan the colour was smudged to fade out and cover the whole lip.

This is a gorgeous look that I love – the eyes were defined with ‘bootblack’ liquid eyeliner, drawn on with a tiny brush to get a very fine line, while the lid was finished in ‘fascinating’ kohl. Two different sets of falsies – #36 and #3 completed the batty lashes. Oh yes, you could see these babies from across the room.

‘Sculpt’ and Emphasis Sculpt shape powders were used to contour the face and make cheekbones stand out.

Hair – Lauren at Stephen Marr

Rather than placing the top knot at the crown of the head, this time it’s been pushed forward towards the forehead. It was a messy version this time – full wispy bits showing. It looked like the models hair had been teased to get volume and I asked if they’d added hair extensions to fill out the knots but Lauren assured me they hadn’t.

‘Our approach is very natural,’ she explains. ‘Often we do little more than add a bit of hair spray, the most extreme kind of hair would be what we did at Cybele.’

The look was beautiful yet a bit ‘maudalin’.

‘There had to be a real naughty undercurrent to it, it is very 1940s but with a darkness to it. A bit like Holly Golightly.’

Where models had short hair the team kept the feel but didn’t try to replicate the long haired look.

‘I’m not going to force short hair to do what it can’t,’ she said. ‘We’re not trying to reconstruct the up-do.’

The stylists kept the hair fluffy and messy for twentysevennames and sleeked it for Juliette Hogan, fastening hand painted combs to pull hair tight where they wanted.