We’re back with Beauty Marks, Vogue’s series that highlights the best in beauty each week. Celebrity beauty moments, MUA magic, stylists that craft reality-defying hair, manis to bring to your next nail appointment.
Couture Week’s runways told a story through their beauty looks, reinterpreting classics to herald the classic red lip comeback at Chanel, and a playful smoky eye at Armani Privé. At Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s guest collectsion show for Jean Paul Gaultier, Guido Palau took the shipwrecked theme to create washed-ashore, slick-down hair. Pat McGrath created moonbeams on the Grecian goddess faces of models at Schiaparelli.
Elsewhere, beauty this week was equal parts femme and freaky: nail art was sculptural, flipped and reversed, hair was piled high to make a poncy French monarch proud, and conceptual makeup took inspo from nature’s most ornate creatures. A special shout-out to the work of nail artist Park Eunkyung (AKA @Unistella), for Jennie Kim’s imaginative new sets across her appearances at Couture. Now she’s on the road to the release of her debut album Ruby, we’ll be sure to check her hands in every street style shot and visual to come. Actor and almost Academy Awards host Rachel Sennott has also been having a moment—while pulling archival Gaultier continues to be her sartorial focus, she’s also leaning into classic, high-femme beauty: pouty lips, big and bouncy blow-outs.
Next week, we’ll have a considered run-through of the Grammys and fashion week moments. For now, scroll through the best beauty looks of this week below.
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Jennie Kim’s water droplet nails
Jennie has nailed her Paris Couture Week looks, with the manicures to match. For the Jean Paul Gaultier show, she wore sculptural, water droplet nail extensions. At Chanel, she had delicately dip-dyed, powder blue talons.
Courtesy of Instagram (@unclewaffles_)2/13Uncle Waffles’ cherry red brows
The Swazi artist and DJ turned out for Kidsuper’s Paris show with a cherry red up-do and matching, razor-straight brows, complemented too by a ring of reddish lipliner.
Courtesy of Instagram (@treaclychild)3/13Rachel Sennott’s Marie Antoinette hair
The actor and soon-to-be Academy Awards co-host has bunny hopped from Utah to Paris, making appearances at Sundance and Fashion Week. For a jaunt to the French capital, she piled her hair high à la Antoinette.
Photography by Troy Hallahan4/13Suzie Toot’s demonic Betty Boop beat
The 17th cycle of Rupaul’s Drag Race has provided lewk after lewk, with New York via Fort Lauderdale queen Suzie Toot coming through with the Vaudevillian veracity. It’s a Betty Boop-Beelzebub crossover with lacquered lips and crimson blush. Brava!
Courtesy of Instagram (@pradaolic)5/13MYLA’s neon pincered shadow
The London-based, Ghanian MUA crafts artistic, expressive visages that find inspiration in nature’s weirdest corners: lips like textured seashells, arachnid brows, blooming orchid eyes. For this look, they’ve been inspired by the Splendid Fiddler crab, with its blue and brown tiger-striped shell and orange pincers.
Courtesy of Instagram (@josephine__dupont)6/13Josie Dupont’s practical lipglossing
The model-on-the-move finds a novel way to neatly touch up lipgloss.
Courtesy of Instagram (@kyranthrax)7/13Kyran Thrax’s snatched Judy Jetson look
The British drag performer and winner of Drag Race UK season six takes this beat to outer space, with a coiffed chrome wig by House of Peluca.
Photo: Shygirl8/13Shygirl’s cyber rave hair
Shygirl and Isabella Lovestory take Paris—shooting a music video or entering a cyber rave in the underground tunnels of the city? Unsure, but Shy’s graduated neon highlights and wolfy cut are beyond.
Courtesy of Crack Magazine9/13Oklou’s face jewelry
Gracing the cover of British music magazine Crack, the musician appeared like a celestial vision, wearing an ornate mouthpiece by LOKIDOLOR.
Photo: Getty10/13Megan Thee Stallion’s reverse mani
‘Relic reversal’ is how Nailed by Tav describes the inverted manicure they did for Megan Thee Stallion. Meg showed off her futuristic nails on the front row of the Gaurav Gupta spring summer 2025 haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week.
Photo: Getty Images11/13Tali Lennox’s knee-length plaits
Eerie and pastoral, Tali Lennox turned out for Valentino Couture emulating a medieval bride, with endless raven plaits.
Photo: Getty Images12/13Aya Nakamsura’s ’90s lip
The French-Malian singer went super feminine in pastel blue at Jean Paul Gaultier, opting for sensual ’90s makeup and a glossy, gradient lip. Bisou!
Courtesy of Instagram (@leana.ardeleanu)13/13Leana Ardeleanu’s extreme cut crease
The Berlin-based makeup artist, who has worked with Saint Laurent, Chet Lo, and Ottolinger, has a talent for depth and aesthetic juxtaposition with her emotive beauty looks. Painting the faces of Michèle Lamy, Gabriette, and Noah Cyrus, this week, she showcased a dense and extreme cut crease, artfully utilizing blank space and thick lines.
