Sept. 26, 2025

Graphic Glamour: Lucy Bridge’s Spiky Lashes & Brushed-Up Brows

Photography Phil Engelhardt
words sarah brown

EE72 Beauty Director-At-Large Sarah Brown asked today’s most exciting makeup artists to create the look of now. Lucy Bridge goes big.

Makeup artist LUCY BRIDGE

The contrast with the lash and brow makes such a strong image. It’s got that sixties hint, but the brow is modernity. I love a bushy brow; it really frames the face. It’s about individuality and going against the grain. I love historical references with my own modern twist. I don’t like following trends.

“The bolder the better,” Lucy Bridge says of her signature aesthetic. “That’s the reason I get booked — to do a real look.” She’s talking about her work with designers like Dries Van Noten and Haider Ackermann, “real masters of their craft who appreciate strong makeup.” For the spiky, textural caterpillar brows and lashes Bridge created here, she used a past runway look she’d created for Van Noten as a jumping-off point. Influenced by abstract 1960s makeup and the singer Mina, it was punctuated by a “heavy, doe-eyed extreme lash, pulled out at the corners, really graphic.”

Here, she added a fluffy, dramatically brushed-up brow to add contrast and individuality. “I created this look for Libby because she has such great brows,” says Bridge, who reports “they were pretty much all hers.” Tom Ford’s clear Eyebrow Laminator added separation and hold, and a finish that was “slightly glossy and wet — that really modernizes the brow, changing the texture,” she says.

THE PRODUCTS:
Top lashes: MAC 83 Siren Lash and Lashify Starburst 12mm and 14mm, MAC
Lower lashes: Kryolan Lower Eyelashes U1 and U2, Kryolan MAC Pro Longwear Fluidline Eyeliner in Blacktrack
Brows: Tom Ford Eyebrow Laminator in Clear

Makeup LUCY BRIDGE at Streeters. Hair DANIEL MARTIN. Model LIBBY BENNETT at Boundary Models. Photography PHIL ENGELHARDT at Jolly Collective. Stylist ENIOLA DARE. Casting PIERGIORGIO DEL MORO for DM Casting. Production Bellhouse / PATRICK ARMSTRONG. Photo assistants KLAUDIJA AVOTINA and MARIA GORODETSKAYA.