One of the hardest tickets to come by during Paris fashion week is a trip to the Grand Palais. But even harder than landing a front row seat at Chanel is getting backstage, where Peter Philips, the brand’s global creative director of makeup, is turning out “top quality work,” as Keira Knightley described Philips’ face-painting skills at the house’s Spring presentation last week. Here, Philips gives us an all-access pass to see exactly how he created the show’s green/black smoky eye while offering up some choice pearls of beauty along the way (spoiler alert: the chance to find out his top-three makeup essentials is but a click away).

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tags: Chanel, Keira Knightley, Makeup, Peter Phliips