Coloring Outside the Lines
The ground has shifted at Chanel.
The luxury house suddenly feels fresh, inviting—joyful, even.
Matthieu Blazy breathed new life into the sleeping giant that had, in recent years, begun to feel flat—a little staid.
But Blazy has engineered a revival.
And the giant? She’s woken up—cheeks flushed, lips pink, skin dewy.
Blazy reset the tone. The face followed.
With Margot Robbie and Kirsten Dunst resplendent in Chanel on press tours, movie sets, and red carpets, Chanel fever is at an all-time high.
And why shouldn’t it be?
While the coveted $1,450 high-vamp pumps that Blazy sent down the runways remain out of reach for many, a $53 lipstick—while still expensive—is a much more attainable entry point.
Like the lines and sold-out pieces following Blazy’s latest collection, makeup artists like Pati Dubroff are fanning the flames and selling out blushes, lipsticks, and bronzers. Robbie’s makeup on her latest press tour was clean, dewy, youthful, and most of all restrained. Instead of loading on product, Dubroff lets Robbie’s natural beauty shine through. Chanel—the perfect accoutrement.
The Berry Boost N°1 Lip and Cheek Balm—sold out nearly everywhere after news broke that Robbie wore the exact shade on the Wuthering Heights set and red carpets alike. The color payoff—that rosy, dewy blush—is worth the price and time if you can afford to stalk it. And the Rose Radiant Cream-to-Powder Blush that Dubroff layered over it? Even better—my daily go-to over cream blush, whether it be Berry Boost or Rhode’s new Teacup. Finish with a swipe of Baume Essentiel Highlighter—I have yet to discover a bad shade, though Sculpting is my daily—and you’ll look lit from within.
Dubroff sold me on the bronzer years ago when she used it at Sofia Grainge’s wedding. Another hard-to-find product, Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream, the good news is that it lasts for literal years (and I have the travel mini which they seem to no longer make). Layered beneath blush? Just the right touch of sun-kissed skin.
No one does a simple eye as perfectly as Chanel. A swipe of eyeliner in No. 12 Contour Clair—a pencil that Dubroff uses again and again in her tutorials—and you’re good to go. Following her guidance, I use it under my bottom lash line and to contour my eyelid crease, finishing it off with a bottom tight line and a dab of their Intense Eye Pencil in No. 69 Clair. It lends just enough brightness to keep the eye looking refreshed and wide awake—another Dubroff trick.
And just as Blazy is coloring outside the lines and rewriting the playbook for luxury fashion, so too is Chanel Beauty redefining what it means to wear makeup.
Chanel?
The shift is real.
The Edit
Rose Radiant Cream-to-Powder Blush
Berry Boost N°1 Lip and Cheek Balm
Red Camilla N°1 Lip and Cheek Balm
Baume Essentiel Highlighter
Stylo Ombre Et Contour
Intense Eye Pencil
Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream
N°1 de Chanel Serum-in-MistLe Lift
La Crème Main
Rouge Coco Flash in 54 Boy
Rouge Allure Velvet in 60 Intemporelle
