By BR Tabatha
I can almost see Wayne Goss rolling his eyes now while that delightful smirk of his graces his lips. There’s a new trend and it’s apparently going to knock contouring of its pedestal. The trend? It’s called draping? How new is it? Not very.
Wayne is often amused by how an old trend is reborn and is then called ‘new’, and draping is anything but. It came about decades ago and was the creation of celebrity makeup artist extraoardinaire, Way Bandy. Well it’s been brought back into the spotlight by Marc Jacobs in conjunction with the release of his Air Blush duos. Here’s his take on it:
To me it just looks like blusher, but apparently it’s more than blusher, draping is using blusher to contour. Stop it already. Basically you get a darker shade and apply it just below the apples of your cheeks, or along the line where you’d contour (in the area that’s mean to be shadowed), and then you take a lighter blusher and apply and blend it above the darker blusher. Confused? I sure as heck am/was. And I’m not sure how I feel about it either, with a light hand I’m sure it’s pretty, but yeah, I’m getting major Working Girl vibes.
It also kind of reminds me of the opposite of Charlotte Tilbury’s Swish and Pop blush technique, where you put the lighter colour on the cheek and then pop the darker colour in the middle to create a glowing flush. Well, I guess that’s the joy of makeup, you can try anything and everything to find out what suits you – whether it be contouring, strobing, or draping.
…. UPDATE …. Well, a few days after I started this article, Wayne came out with his demo of draping, which I’m so glad he did, because how I thought it should be done based on all the articles I’d read and how it’s meant to be done are two very different things. You can check the video out here:
… and disappointingly I didn’t see a hint of smirk when he went talked about how it’s not a new trend. Sigh. Wayne, why so serious?
So do tell… are you a draper? Have you been doing it for yonks? Are you willing to give it a go? Do you think it will knock contouring off from the top trend spot? Get chatting!
Blush is a scary area for me at the best of times so draping wouldn't be something I could get in to but I may give it a go just to see what the big deal is