Chanel's makeup and skincare guru Cyndle Komarovski dishes on her favourite Chanel products and makeup looks.

Peer behind the curtains on a <a href="https://www.lofficielmalaysia.com/beauty/chanel-beauty-evokes-the-duality-of-pink-for-fall-winter-2020">Chanel</a> photoshoot set and you might not be able to tell who&rsquo;s the model and who&rsquo;s the makeup artist. That&rsquo;s because Cyndle Komarovski, a Chanel celebrity makeup artist, with her refined bone structure and sylphlike form, is flitting about with a calm grace befitting a modern-day Coco Chanel.

But as much as she nearly glows with glamour, she also brushes it off. &ldquo;Oh, I&rsquo;m just a big makeup nerd,&rdquo; she says and laughs. She&rsquo;s also real when it comes to her approach to makeup.

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"I have always been obsessed with skin and making it really beautiful."

In fact, she started her career far from the Champs-Elysees: working on everyday women. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t working on a 17-year-old with a perfect face,&rdquo; she recalls. &ldquo;When a woman sits in your chair, the first thing they do is they start saying things like, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m sorry I look really tired today,&rsquo; or &lsquo;I&rsquo;m sorry that I have this pimple.&rsquo;

And it became about doing makeup with a different approach, a sensitive approach, which is helping this person find what they love about themselves and highlighting that.&rdquo;

That&rsquo;s not to say Komarovski can&rsquo;t dial up the looks for a photo shoot.&nbsp;After studying photography at the Art Institute of Boston (she dropped out to move to New York to pursue a career as a makeup artist), she adores playing with light and texture.

&ldquo;I love that part of the process of working with a photographer on how makeup might react to different light sources,&rdquo; she says. But there is one theme that unifies all her work. &ldquo;I have always been obsessed with skin and making it really beautiful. Get that right and then you can do a very dramatic&nbsp;eye or just play with the details,&rdquo; she says. And &ldquo;play&rdquo; is exactly how she views makeup now.&nbsp;

Forget the perfectly defined pounds of Instagram makeup. With a painterly, unfussy approach, Komarovski raves about multipurpose products and often advocates for fingers over brushes. The new Chanel Ombre Premi&egrave;re Laque in Quartz Rose from the Spring collection, which you can swipe on and smudge with your fingers, she says.

She&rsquo;ll add on a flick of the new metallic&nbsp;Le Liner de Chanel pens. &ldquo;I love that it has a texture to it and it adds a hint of light to the eye&mdash;even the darker shades,&rdquo; she says. She might cap that off with accented &ldquo;fluffy brows&rdquo; using the Chanel La Palette Sourcils in Light Brow Wax and Brow Powder Duo. &ldquo;The way the powder is you can build up volume,&rdquo; she explains.

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As for her tip on achieving the perfectly-done-but-minimal skin that&rsquo;s become her signature? Komarovski reaches for the Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint in Medium Light, which is possibly the freshest kind of tinted moisturizer around. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s this beautiful summery kind of look that still allows skin to look like skin,&rdquo; she says.

But if there is one secret weapon to invest in, Komarovski says it&rsquo;s the Chanel Baume Essentiel in Sculpting, which gives a wet-dewy look (without the oil slick) to anything it touches. &ldquo;There are the classic high points of the face like the cheekbones, bridge of the nose and the cupid&rsquo;s bow that you can accent, or you can even brush it into your eyebrow for a wet eyebrow look, or use on your shoulders and d&eacute;colletage for a summer glow,&rdquo; she advises.

&ldquo;We&rsquo;re all tired and running around. This just brings a look of health immediately.&rdquo;&nbsp;Sold.

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Makeup&nbsp;Cyndle Komarovski

Model&nbsp;Camilla Deterre&nbsp;

An ultimate guide to Summer 2020 looks according to Cyndle Komarovski of Chanel Beauty

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