The Biba Doll

(Vintage Biba photos from Barbara Hulanicki)

Barbara Hulanicki described the Biba girl in her fantasy as one being young and fresh with a dolly face, heavy lids, rosy cheeks and dark lips. 

In his book Making Faces, Kevyn Aucoin did the makeup and styled Kate Moss as a Biba girl. I really like Kevyn Aucoin’s interpretation of the Biba look and ever since I saw this photo, this look would spring to my mind when I thought of a Biba girl. For my Biba inspired makeup post, I attempted to copy this look. 

My personal take on my look: I think the black eyeshadow and dark lips could be more intense though this was the most I could achieved without a black cream shadow and deep plum lipstick. And I guess to stay true to the Biba look, my eyebrows would need some serious trimming (gasp!) or concealing. 

And for my Biba inspired outfit post, I replicated a milder version by using a nude colour on my lips and smaller cloud of dark colour around my eyes. To emphasize the huge dolly eyes, I put on false lashes on both my upper and lower lids.

Honestly, on normal days, I probably won’t wear this look out, even the toned down version. Hopefully the peaceful folks at my neighbourhood would forget about the whole incident of an Asian lady with crazy eye makeup, baring her legs in the cold and taking photographs of herself on the streets. lol. How about you? Would you wear this look out? 

xoxo,

Ft