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Beauty Crew Beauty Editor / January 30 2025

Post Paris' Couture Fashion Week in January of 2024, all anyone could seem to talk about was Pat McGrath's makeup for Maison Margiela. 

The artisanal runway show brought together McGrath and Maison Margiela creative director, John Galliano, for the first time in over 10 years. If you didn't already know, the duo are responsible for some of the most iconic runway makeup of the '90s and '00s, inspiring red carpet moments like both of Zendaya's 2024 Met Gala looks

For Maison Margiela's Couture runway in 2024, the pair transformed models into broken porcelain dolls costumed in surreal 19th century corsets and bustles — their hand-painted faces bathed in a glaze of porcelain lacquer that left McGrath's fans gobsmacked.

Namely because, after the show, footage began to surface of models peeling the makeup off like a second skin.

McGrath's artistic process quickly became the subject of speculation, with makeup artists and fans applauding the industry veteran's inspiring innovation, and attempting to recreate the glassy effect at home.

Now, in 2025, exactly a year since the awe-inspiring show Pat McGrath has finally launched a product that allows artists to do just that.

Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Artistry Mask

"Glass Skin 001 is my love letter to the Maison Margiela runway," Pat said via the Pat McGrath website. "This formula captures the brilliance of that iconic moment, delivering hyper-shiny, lacquered radiance and an ethereal glow in minutes. It’s beauty reimagined for makeup lovers everywhere. Wear it, love it, make it yours."

Infused with soothing glycerin and rose flower water, this unique formula doesn't just help to create a hyper-shiny glass finish — it also improves the look and feel of skin once it's peeled off. Hydrating and nourishing, it promises a fresh and revitalised complexion, softer skin, and even blurs the appearance of pores.

You can now shop the Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Artistry Mask from Pat McGrath Labs. However, you will need to sign up to a waiting list to be able to purchase the Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Artistry Mask ($69 from Pat McGrath Labs) — the highly anticipated product sold out just a few hours after it launched on January 30th.

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If you really can't wait, you could do what celebrity makeup artist, Erin Parsons, did and concoct your own version of the peel off mask at home — McGrath actually dropped the secret recipe to the runway look 

According to McGrath, the porcelain skin finish took her three years to develop.

"It really was about this beautiful serum-like finish of all our foundations and products to make the skin look glassier… We had to take it to that perfect consistency," she explained via Instagram.

After applying the model's makeup, McGrath and her team applied SFX glue to the corners of lips, nostrils and the inner eye to ensure the longevity of the makeup.

Then, she mixed together four peel-off face masks:

1/ Freeman's Peel Off Gel Mask in 'cucumber' ($9.52 at iHerb).

2/ Que Bella Hydrating Pineapple Peel Off Face Mask (not available in Australia).

3/ Proot Calendula Peel Off Face Mask (not available in Australia).

4/ Daggett & Ramsdell Australian Tea Tree Oil & Vitamin E Peel Off Facial Mask (not available in Australia).

She then thinned out the masks using Skin Illustrator Clear Gloss (not available in Australia) and water, and airbrushed seven to eight layers of the mixture over the top of model's makeup, drying each layer with a hairdryer.

The makeup artist used a plastic spoon to protect the models eye, cheek and lip makeup from the airbrush gun.

Then she applied Pat McGrath Labs lip gloss to their lips and eyelids to complete the glassy look, and added a coat of mascara to the model's lashes. 

Watch the full tutorial below:

 

@gzelle_kabir Incase anyone missed @Pat McGrath Labs live today. She done the entire make on IG live, btw shes coming up woth her own product to creat this glass skin look #patmcgrath #makeup #porcelinedollmakeup ♬ original sound - Gzelle

Main image credit: @gwendolineuniverse

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Briar Clark got her start in the media industry in 2017, as an intern for Marie Claire and InStyle. Since then, her keen interest in fashion and beauty has landed her gigs as a Digital Content Producer and Beauty Editor with titles like Girlfriend, Refinery29, BEAUTYcrew and beautyheaven. She loves the way seemingly innocuous topics like skin care and style have the ability to put a smile on people’s faces or make them think about themselves a little differently. A big believer in self love and experimentation, Briar has made a point of becoming the Australian beauty industry’s unofficial guinea pig for unusual treatments and daring hair trends. When she’s not testing out the latest beauty launches, Briar is big on broadening her horizons, mostly in the form of food but she’s also partial to travelling to new destinations both near and far (and of course, allocating an extra bag to bring their best beauty offerings home with her).