Backstage beauty areas are rarefied, intoxicating places: their entrants privy to irresistible beauty and inspiration. Overstimulating in a wonderful way, they tend to be packed and rather too hot, the air thick with hairspray. Here, the world’s best beauty teams transform armies of models into otherworldly creatures who will soon stalk the catwalks.
There is nowhere better to discover the beauty products behind the magic, or the techniques that make it happen. With fashion month in full flow, I asked some of London’s finest beauty talent which items they couldn’t live without.
