Lily-Rose Depp takes a love-at-first-sight photo at the “Nosferatu” press tour.
Lily-Rose Depp and makeup artist Nina Park have found something special in each other. It reminds me a bit of when Kendall Jenner found her go-to makeup artist, Mary Phillips. The job of actors and models is to know their faces, the raw materials from which they create their art. That's why it must be such a thrill for a muse like Depp or Jenner to find a collaborator with a grasp that rivals their own features. That seems to be the case with Depp and Park, who have been working together since at least 2018.
“I'm only me when I'm wearing Nina Park Glam,” Depp once wrote in a comment on Park's Instagram. Under another post, the Idol star called Park “the absolute queen of my life !!!!!!.” He called her “the best thing that has ever happened to me. [Depp plays a troubled young bride named Ellen, the object of the titular vampire's obsession, in “Nosferatu,” a 1922 re-imagining of Dracula's original novel. As one might imagine given Depp's decade-long relationship with the French fashion house, the press tour was a parade of gothic looks, with Chanel archival dresses at the center. But in my humble opinion, not enough attention was paid to the glamorous combination of her haunted Victorian doll and the chiseled modern supermodel.
Depp's makeup regimen at the “Nosferatu” press tour, pictured above at the film's Los Angeles premiere and below at the UK premiere, is a tribute to the pale skin and muted colors that defined 19th century beauty standards. But it is also a love letter to the distinctive beat that she and Park have perfected over the years of their collaboration. The cheeks smeared with bronzer and rose blush, the corners of the eyes blurred with matte nude color, and black eyeliner circling the waterline, tight line, and lash line. Lips are usually overlined with taupe liner and a pinky-beige lipstick in the center. The exact shade or tone depends on what she is wearing on the outside. But the tension between her sharply defined frame and softly blurred makeup is always there.
Rather than fighting against Depp's innate grumpy, puffy look with colors and application methods intended to add brightness or hide dimples, Park clearly prefers to lean into what makes the 25-year-old's face so striking. Frankly, I think there are sensible beauty lessons for all of us in that approach. And I have a feeling it will pay off when awards season rolls around.
Since both Depp and Park are Chanel Beauty darlings, most of the products used on the actors are from the luxury brand. But instead of a full breakdown by Park herself, the lineup below is about as close as one can get to mirroring her 90s supermodel-meets-vampire glamour.
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