Discover the products that were David Bowie's makeup essentials.
, in spades. In tandem with vivid shadows, he coated his lashes in black, sometimes blue, cake mascara and smudged intense Indian, or kohl, sticks near the roots. To give his eye designs a larger canvas, he’d cancel out his brows by shaving them off. Thus, taking his steely, dual-color stare to an otherworldly new level.. “I felt very puny as a human. I thought, ‘Fuck that. I want to be a superman.
Inspired by traditional Kabuki makeup, he dusted Japanese rice powder—picked up from a Tokyo five-and-dime shop—to create a pure white base, then draped the contours of his face in ruby-red blush. Whenever he traced that iconic gold circle above brows, he used a rich gold pigment sourced from Germany.