This week’s celebrity glam has the kind of texture and color story that looks made for call sheets. From stage hair to couture liner and a runway legend’s new palette, the best beauty looks of the week already feel like next season’s reference deck for casting directors and creative teams.
Pop stars, Olympians and actors all leaned into bolder choices that still read polished on camera. Think Katy Perry channelling her “California Gurls” era in Madrid, Danielle Deadwyler turning up at the Balenciaga couture show with an electric under-eye, and Beyoncé returning to a New York stage with curls built for a wide-angle lens. Add Fara Homidi quietly rolling out her new eye formulas backstage, and you have the exact mix of images models will be saving to moodboards.
Color stories: sorbet pastels and the blue reboot
Color came back with a soft but deliberate hand. Katy Perry’s Madrid tour stop leaned into candy shades, with high twin pigtails, pastel accents on eyes and lips, and blush warmed up to almost sunburned. On nails, artist Yoko Sakakura painted a vacation storyboard across fingertips, with pool blue, ice-cream pastels and glossy shine that reads instantly as resort. Add Sienna Spiro’s all-over azure lid with fluttery 1960s lashes and you get a clear message for summer campaigns: playful tones, yes, but with clean edges and strategic placement.
Blue in particular is moving from niche to anchor. At the Balenciaga couture show, Danielle Deadwyler wore crystal-clear skin, a single swipe of blue under the eye and dolly lashes, a combination that felt elevated rather than experimental. Sienna Spiro’s saturated azure pushed the idea further into full-commitment color. Makeup artist Fara Homidi often talks about using a touch of blue to pull attention away from tiredness around the eyes, and that logic is visible across these looks. For test shoots, models can translate this into a navy or cobalt smudge along the lower lashes with otherwise bare lids; for editorials, a denser wash of blue becomes the focal point of the story.
The new undone smoky eye: Fara Homidi’s lived-in lids
Few artists shape editorial beauty moodboards like Fara Homidi. After years leading makeup for covers and campaigns, she built her Fara Homidi Beauty line around the textures she reaches for backstage. The brand’s latest drop, the Essential Eye Compact, is her first step into eye shadow, offered in two tight trios based on shades already tested at Proenza Schouler, Gabriela Hearst and Erdem. Long before the official launch, she was using lab samples on those runways, then at Eckhaus Latta’s fall show, where the brief asked for an undone smoky eye that looked lived in rather than graphic.
Homidi’s take on the smoky eye is cream-based, mutable and designed to move. The formula is intentionally not fully set, so edges stay soft and creasing is part of the look instead of a failure. She often rims the eyes with the darkest shade, then wipes or blurs the excess away with a cotton swab or fingertip, leaving a diffused halo that photographs effortlessly. The result is a smoky structure that feels party-girl and modern, flattering even on more mature lids thanks to the absence of harsh lines. For working models, that translates into two clear references to bring to set: a casting-safe sheer neutral wash from palette No. 20, and a moodier, slept-in version using the deeper tones or the bright blue from No. 61 when the brief calls for edge.
Hair, nails and micro-details clients zoom in on
Hair told its own story in this week’s images. Beyoncé’s return to the stage with Jay-Z in New York came with glowing, sculpted skin and big, bouncy curls by Neal Farinah that framed every close-up, a masterclass in performance hair that still reads luxurious in stills. Katy Perry’s twin pigtails recalled pop-video references that brands love for nostalgic youth campaigns. At the ESPYs, figure skater Alysa Liu wore an elegant updo that showcased her now-signature striped hair, proving how pattern in the hair itself can become the graphic element of a beauty shot. In a quieter key, Schön! Magazine’s ferry-set editorial starring Shannon, with hair and makeup by Sanne Le-Gras Bleeker, used wind-touched texture and minimal glam to show how movement and real skin can carry a full story.
The small details are just as moodboard-worthy. Yoko Sakakura’s pool-and-ice-cream manicure could anchor an entire resort or fragrance brief, while Danielle Deadwyler and Sienna Spiro’s doll-like lashes show how defined fringe instantly tips a look into editorial territory. Ajok Daing’s cosmic makeup and Anya Taylor-Joy’s precise liner and lip work add options at the more directional end of the scale. For models, these details are the pieces clients often zoom in on for e-commerce, campaign close-ups and beauty ads. Keeping nails short and neutral for day-to-day castings, while saving this week’s sorbet manicures, under-eye blues and slept-in smokies in a reference folder, lets you stay versatile on go-sees and fully prepared when a photographer or key artist asks what you are excited to try next.
