Peach & Lily Debuted Its First Make-up Product at NYFW

For the second season in a row, Korean skincare model Peach & Lily partnered with clothier Prabal Gurung as his unique face associate for New York Vogue Week. Having teamed up final September to create a very makeup-free glass pores and skin runway look, the pair reunited however with an up to date imaginative and prescient. 

“Our values are very aligned,” says model founder Alicia Yoon on working with Gurung. “I like that Prabal is such a champion for desirous about what variety means. He’s not shy about celebrating variations. Having watched his exhibits, I do know he all the time celebrated these actually daring magnificence seems. I beloved that final 12 months he was so open to [honoring] everybody’s pure options with no make-up.” 

Whereas the model’s first collaboration was strictly skincare targeted, Yoon thought the Fall/Winter ‘25 present was the right alternative to showcase an thrilling innovation—Peach & Lily’s first make-up product, the Glass Pores and skin Luminizing Stick. Yoon spent months meticulously formulating a skincare-meets-makeup product that pushed the signature glass pores and skin end into a brand new class. Spoiler: It’s not like another highlighter stick available on the market. 

“The truth that we originated this glass pores and skin motion, we take that significantly,” says Yoon. “It’s not a superficial impact, it is bettering your pores and skin from inside. So this Glass Pores and skin Luminizing Stick wants to remodel and enhance your pores and skin whereas providing you with that make-up payoff.” With this launch in thoughts, Gurung and Yoon dreamt up a glass pores and skin make-up look that complemented each mannequin on the runway, irrespective of their age or pores and skin sort. Forward, study every thing there may be to know in regards to the new Peach & Lily product and precisely the way it was used backstage.

The Inspiration

In keeping with Yoon, getting into the make-up class felt like a pure extension of the model. “We’re the pioneers of glass pores and skin. In 2018, after we launched our Glass Pores and skin Refining Serum, glass pores and skin wasn’t a time period that was used [in the industry]. It resonated with individuals,” she explains. “During the last 5 years, we’ve gotten so many testimonials from our clients. The most typical theme was, ‘I’m so pleased with my pores and skin, however there are days I wanna exit and put on make-up. I would like one thing to place over it to not cowl my glass pores and skin look.’ So we realized this was going to be our first foray into make-up however the Peach & Lily approach.”

In the end, Yoon made one aim—create a stacked skincare formulation that visibly transforms pores and skin, brightens, corporations, repairs, hydrates, and is nice for delicate pores and skin, all whereas being one of the best make-up highlighter on the market. Straightforward, proper? “It took a really very long time, however in the end we’re tremendous excited. [The final product] is a skincare formulation however with nice make-up payoff,” she provides. “The spotlight is simply bar none—completely megawatt glass pores and skin glow.” 

The Formulation

As a substitute of approaching this new formulation as a make-up product infused with skincare, Yoon harassed to her labs that she wished the core and basis of the formulation to be skincare however with unimaginable make-up advantages. The end result? Over 40 skincare elements, together with antioxidants, a mix of 9 peptides, and hyaluronic acid, had been infused into the ultimate product that helps deal with and rework the pores and skin all day lengthy whereas giving that viral glass pores and skin shine. In different phrases, with every software, you might be getting skincare advantages however with a make-up payoff. “There is no glitter in it, no shimmer, it simply seems like your pores and skin, however higher,” she explains. When it got here to texture, Yoon was very specific about reaching the right steadiness between being hydrating however not heavy. “When the end of a product is oily or greasy, your pores and texture look extra accentuated. We wished the end to look very easy, refined, and snatched, versus oily.” 

Methods to Use It

The great thing about this innovation is the limitless methods to make use of the product, from strategic placement to all-over software. That being mentioned, in response to Yoon, there are three predominant methods to include the Glass Pores and skin Luminizing Stick into your routine.

First, you possibly can put on it on naked pores and skin after your skincare. “It performs properly with different merchandise, so you may as well put it over your SPF in order for you as properly,” Yoon suggests. “This will provide you with this all-day radiance.” The subsequent choice is carrying it beneath your make-up. This can simply intensify the lit-from-within glow and assist that cup pores and skin look shine by means of your complexion merchandise. Lastly, you possibly can put on it over make-up, which Yoon admits is her favourite approach to make use of the product. She applies a little bit basis and goes over her brow, bridge of the nostril, and cheeks with the Glass Pores and skin Stick.

Whether or not you employ it as a primer or a final step, you possibly can belief that it’s going to not smudge, pull, or tablet any merchandise you layer with it. “If we had been going to make a make-up product, it has to play properly with different make-up. It has to glide properly over all completely different sorts of formulation whereas preserving it intact—whether or not it’s water-based make-up, oil-based make-up, silicone make-up, hybrid make-up,” says Yoon. “In order that was one thing we examined extensively. It glides simply, doesn’t really feel heavy, and is tremendous wearable.”

Get The Runway Look

Simply days after it launched, the Glass Pores and skin Luminizing Stick discovered itself on the middle of NYFW. As a continuation of Peach & Lily’s collaboration with Prabal Gurung, head make-up artist Sil Bruinsma was tasked with utilizing the newest skew to create a glass skin-inspired look. Forward of the present, he shared precisely how the latest product was used backstage.

“Final 12 months, we did this lovely glass pores and skin look, no make-up in anyway. This 12 months, we simply wished to point out how you should utilize [the Peach & Lily products] with a little bit bit extra make-up,” says Bruinsma. “So we’re doing an attractive flushed cheek, a little bit little bit of a monochromatic eye, and a bitten lip. So it is all contemporary and glowy, however with a excessive sheen from the glass pores and skin look.” 

As quickly as every mannequin sits in a make-up chair, they’re handled to a mini Peach & Lily facial. “First, we’re utilizing the toner pads, then we use the essence, the serum, and the moisturizer. That is type of the prep base that we work on,” he explains. “Subsequent, we do the little make-up—concealer, curled lash, a little bit of mascara, and only a trace of lip and cheek. Then we use the Glass Pores and skin Luminizing Stick on the excessive factors, cheekbones, and bridge of the nostril.”

Bruinsma shares that the Glass Pores and skin Stick is adaptable, making it simple to make use of on each mannequin. “It’s totally customizable. You should utilize it beneath make-up, you should utilize it over make-up,” he says. ”Some sticks are extra mica-based and can be utilized over basis. This stick has a little bit little bit of mica in it, nevertheless it’s additionally extra of an emollient texture. You should utilize this over a basis as properly, and there is no blotchiness or spottiness.”

He notes that they don’t must buff or mix the stick into the pores and skin; somewhat, the formulation simply naturally melts—particularly when paired with the Glass Pores and skin Veil Mist. “When the fashions are prepared to go away the chair, we use layer of the mist. Then, proper earlier than they go [down the runway], we give them one other layer. You get this throughout shine, that is actually lovely pores and skin.”