Makeup Artist Mally Roncal on Beyoncé's Gorgeous Out Cover

Makeup Artist Mally Roncal on Beyoncé's Gorgeous Out Cover

 

 

When makeup artist Mally Roncal met Beyoncé for the very first time in 2002, she was, understandably, at a loss for words. “She walks in with this gold gown, no shoes, big ol’ curly hair, and not a stitch of makeup,” Roncal said recently at the Spring Beauty Soiree for Birchbox at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. “I remember going, like, ‘What do we even do to that face? How do you perfect perfection?’ It’s unbelievable.” More than a decade later, Roncal is responsible once again for perfecting perfection for Out magazine’s latest cover, which Queen B appropriately graces for their Power issue in a Marilyn Monroe–esque platinum curly bob and strands of pearls.

Roncal says her inspiration was Beyoncé herself—“There’s not a lot of faces like hers in the universe, in the stratosphere"—and the cover look was a true collaboration. "She had very strong opinions. I wanted to give her just a little more smoldering, smoky appeal.” To achieve that, Roncal did a cat eye (a ’Yoncé favorite, the makeup artist says) and contoured the lids using her Evercolor Shadow Stick in the bronzy Saddle Shimmer. No faux lashes for B either. “It’s just a lot of my Volumizing Mascara.”
For the face, Roncal says, “She already has beautiful skin, so I always try to just enhance that and just make it more healthy, sexy, and glowing.” To get the perfect sun-kissed finish, Roncal used her pore-erasing Evercolor Face Defender and Super Natural Highlighter on the cheeks to “lift everything up.” She topped it off with a glossy lip, using Mally Beauty’s High Shine Liquid Pen in Nude Light.
And for those brows? Not a thing. “Beyoncé's brows are perfect. They’re very, very beautiful and naturally shaped. God made them like that.”