“Aliens” simply invaded Maison Margiela’s spring high fashion present. Strolling down the runway on January 5, fashions appeared as other-worldly creatures with supernaturally lustrous pores and skin that left the web fully mesmerized. The genius that she is, make-up artist Pat McGrath was accountable for the enchanting impact: “It’s a contemporary tackle porcelain glass pores and skin,” her group shared in a press launch. “Pores and skin is coated in a hyper-shiny glaze, mimicking the graceful, reflective high quality of glass.” However we — alongside different earthlings — are nonetheless investigating precisely how these people have been reworked into such ridiculously shiny area dolls with not a single pore on their face.

McGrath was coy about what product she used to create the impact, however magnificence detectives shortly pointed to Kryolan Skilled Make-Up’s Liquid Glass (a liquid formulation usually utilized in special-effects make-up, making it the proper product to create this gleaming canvas) as the principle suspect.

Make-up artist Erin Parsons had a special speculation, based mostly on perception from a make-up artist who labored on the present, that the product used was a customized combine made with a water-based formulation. This led Parsons to conclude that McGrath utilized Freeman’s Renewing Peel-Off Gel Masks — and it is a sound concept, partially as a result of fashions have been seen peeling their full faces of make-up off after the present. Parsons examined it out herself by watering down the cult-favorite face masks from the mid-2000s and airbrushing it onto her pores and skin in layers. “This look was so extremely genius, and the method is mindblowing,” Parson stated on TikTok.

McGrath hasn’t confirmed both of those theories to be true however did say that “all can be revealed very quickly,” in a latest Instagram submit.

Within the meantime, we’re impressed to swipe on our make-up boldly, put aside our rosy pink blush for a vibrant shade of yellow or coral, and experiment with a smudge of lime lipstick, simply as McGrath did on these fashions at Margiela.

If the make-up from this season’s high fashion — like the electrical tie-dye eyes at Giorgio Armani, the feathery, extra-long eyelashes at Giambattista Valli, or the bejeweled lips and brows at Jean Paul Gautier — is any indication, an astronomical yr for daring make-up lies forward.