Whether you're looking for make-up inspirations, just want to admire beautiful looks or want to follow Fashion Week more closely, make up artist are absolutely the ones to follow on Instagram!
Specially created for the photo shoots of the great magazines with the make-up on the catwalk, the glowy stars of the red carpets and the previews, Instagram is full of sublime cliches to inspire.
Our top 5 make-up artists connected.
Pat Mc Grath, the queen of fashion backstages
The creation and design director of Procter & Gamble is highly influential on Instagram. Innovative and bold, Pat McGrath prefers to use her hands to make up her models as makeup brushes. She dares, invents, creates. An English woman of Jamaican origin, she broke into the 90s when she arrived in the ID magazine team. Her CV includes names such as Prada, Armani, John Galliano ... On Instagram, she shares behind-the-scenes and exclusive pictures, often even before the girls have walked on the podium.
Subscribers: 1.1 million
Why we love it: for exclusivity! By following it on Instagram, you are transported immediately in the backstage of the biggest fashion shows.
Charlotte Tilbury, VIP Makeup Artist
Star of make up artist, Charlotte Tilbury now owns her own cosmetics brand. She frequents the biggest celebrities almost daily but tenderly keeps, in the description of her profile, the mention "mother of two children". We love her shots with stars, mid-groupie, semi-professional. At her side, we meet the cream of the cream, we discover new trends makeup and its flagship products, while taking inspiration from the parades and shootings.
Subscribers: 1.1 million
Why we love it: because it makes us dream and it makes us penetrate behind the scenes of the biggest events of the fashionsphère.
Tom Bachik, the master of nail art
Tom Bachik is a make-up artist of another kind. He is sublime in his nails. Nail artist for L'Oréal Paris, his Instagram account is full of inspirations to dress his hands with a high-fashion nail polish. J-Lo, Rita Ora, Rachel Mc Adams, Selena Gomez, Beyoncé, Gwen Stefani ... All the hands of the most prominent people are passed between his own. And if his painstaking work could sometimes go unnoticed on the red carpet, Tom Bachik is creating, thanks to his very instagram account provided, a true portfolio of high-end.
Subscribers: 124.000
Why we love him: thanks to him, we finally know what color we need to dress our nails and we can take inspiration from the looks of the biggest stars. And they relativise: they too, they have trouble to put varnish alone ...
Lucia Pica, the elegant and warm
Lucia Pica is Creative Designer Makeup and Color at Chanel. Through her Instagram account, we can discover her inspirations, her advice, the looks she loves but also what influences her everyday life. Originally from Naples, Lucia Pica studied with Charlotte Tilbury in London, before dressing up the fashion models of House of Holland, then Louis Vuitton or Giorgio Armani. Now it is at Chanel that she develops her creativity and dexterity of make up artist.
His subscribers: 41.700
Why we love it: it is both very inspiring and seems perfectly accessible. We like his simplicity as much as his talent.
Tom Pécheux, the Frenchy who "sublime" without disguising
Tom Pecheux is the frenchy of the band. Since 2009, the makeup artist, originally from Burgundy, is head of creative makeup at Estée Lauder. For him, make-up is a tool to sublimate, not to camouflage or transform. We love her shots taken in the wings of the great parades, in close-up. It feels like being with him and you can soak up his inspirations and his advice. He is very followed and very often he is accompanied by the girl to follow the moment.
Its subscribers: 104.000
Why we love him: first, because we are a bit chauvinistic and then because he is always in the most live shows and surrounded by the coolest top models of the moment!
