Five Minutes With Makeup Artist Daniel Martin

MILAN — Daniel Martin’s talent is complemented by his lively personality. Martin, who trained under Pat McGrath and is a Dior brand ambassador, is known to be the man behind the beauty looks of many celebrities, including Elizabeth Moss, Gemma Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Nina Dobrev and Olivia Palermo. He also worked with Jessica Alba for five years before being tapped as chief color consultant of the actress’ makeup and skin-care label Honest Beauty. In town for the European launch of the brand, Martin shared beauty hacks and his favorite memory about working on Meghan Markle’s most important makeup look: the one of her wedding day. WWD: How do you conceive a makeup look for your clients? Daniel Martin: A lot of times I start from the personality. If they come to me and they are not a very big makeup wearer, I automatically know that whatever I use on them is more like an accessory. So if they are very plain, they don’t like a lot of fuss but they want to look like finished, I kind of figure out what feature is it on their faces they are more comfortable with. So if they have like very beautiful bright eyes, then maybe

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