Jo Baker has been counting down the times till she will get to work with actor Lucy Boynton once more. For this night’s look, worn in celebration of Chanel’s new Fifth Avenue flagship, Baker created a neon mod eye second, petal pink and swirls of silver shimmer framed by ample lashes. 

“Lucy is my final muse,” says Baker. “She is so totally recreation, and she or he’s like an open e book for any aesthetic. I might pull from the 1800s, I might make her right into a spoiled brat toddler at a celebration with a tiara on with obnoxious freckles and blush. She’s most likely my solely consumer like that, who’s so excited about storytelling that the self-importance of presentation comes from a spot of, ‘What character am I going to be as we speak?’”

That is essential to Baker, who obtained her begin in editorial make-up and thrives on the inventive components of her profession. From period references—these based mostly on each a consumer’s nature and the outfit in query—to temper boarding, the make-up artist is all concerning the course of. One scroll of her Instagram instantly reveals mentioned penchant for daydreamy seems to be and digital temper boards, which Baker does after creating a glance.

“It’s actually me on my telephone, in a resort foyer or a hall someplace, on Google photos looking out something that comes into my head: ‘galactic,’ ‘retro,’ ‘cartoon,’ ‘Vogue,’ ‘Nineteen Sixties,’ ‘House Odyssey,’ simply ready for issues to come back up and make sense,” she says. “And eventually I’m like, “‘That’s it, that’s precisely the place my mind was going.’” This may increasingly appear counterintuitive, however Baker’s temper boards, whereas enjoyable for her, are actually for us. “I simply love presenting so individuals can find out about colours and tones and texture,” she says. “I like the artwork trainer vibe of what I do, permitting individuals’s brains to open up a bit to totally different eras, totally different occasions, totally different inspirations.”

For Boyton, that period inspo tends towards the Nineteen Sixties. “She does give me that ‘60s dolly, even by means of her mannerisms, and her type,” says Baker. She’ll put on like a fats Prada idler with a little bit skirt, a shirt, and a black leather-based jacket, so already her private type is giving me punk, a little bit ‘90s, and ‘60s mod.”