Skin prep before Fashion Week
A Guide to Fashion Week Skin Prep: The Secret to Flawless Skincare for Makeup
Whether you’re attending Fashion Week as a model, guest, or industry insider, the long days, packed schedules, and travel between the fashion capitals of the world can take a toll on your skin. Without the right preparation and protection, our complexions can quickly become tired, dehydrated, and congested. That’s why it’s essential to prioritise your skincare, ensuring your complexion is resilient, radiant, and makeup-ready when Fashion Week arrives.
Guided by Maryam’s Reveal, Enhance, Protect philosophy, our science-led formulations are designed to deliver visible results. With the right ritual, you can refine and reveal your natural glow, enhance vitality and skin firmness with active serums, and protect with hydration and SPF so your complexion is ready for every spotlight moment, whether that’s stepping onto the runway, into the front row, or out into the city. At MZ SKIN, we believe in the power of consistent rituals rather than last-minute fixes. Whether you’re preparing to attend shows, travelling between cities, or balancing a busy lifestyle alongside Fashion Week events, MZ SKIN delivers impactful skincare that smooths, hydrates, and primes the skin for a flawless base.
Reveal: Create a Smooth, Refined Base
Every flawless makeup look begins with clarity. One of the most common culprits behind patchy or uneven makeup is dryness, which causes foundation to cling to rough patches. Congestion, too, can leave skin bumpy and uneven. Cleansing and exfoliation are therefore essential for removing impurities, refining pores, and ensuring a smooth, balanced base.
Our Cleanse & Clarify Dual Action AHA Cleanser & Mask is the perfect first step. Infused with AHAs and Papaya Fruit Enzyme, it gently exfoliates while restoring balance and radiance. Used daily as a cleanser or twice weekly as a mask, it polishes without stripping, leaving skin soft, smooth, and perfectly prepared for hydration. With a refined complexion, makeup applies seamlessly and resists clinging to dry or congested areas.
Enhance: Hydrate, Plump, and Revive
Once the skin is refined, the focus shifts to enhancement and hydration with serums to produce glowing, radiant skin. During Fashion Week, dehydration is a key cause of makeup fading or settling into fine lines, while inadequate hydration can also lead to product build-up if layers aren’t balanced correctly. Late nights, heavy makeup, and long days also compromise the skin’s barrier, leaving it vulnerable to uneven tone and dullness. The Bio-Placenta Hyaluronic Acid Serum uses the superpower ingredient, Bio-Placenta, a fusion of five growth factors, amino acids and vitamins which actively support skin regeneration at a cellular level. Working in synergy with multi-molecular hyaluronic acids, it floods the skin with intense hydration, instantly plumping fine lines and restoring firmness. Alongside this, the proprietary M5Rx complex smooths, firms, and strengthens the skin barrier over time. The result is a complexion that feels deeply replenished, resilient, and skin that is perfectly prepped for makeup that glows.
For deeper repair, the Reviving Bio-Placenta & Stem Cell Serum is like sleep in a bottle, and is our go-to for looking and feeling refreshed after a late night. This nourishing serum combines cutting-edge bio-placenta with plant stem cells and peptides to actively regenerate and strengthen the skin. Its silky texture sinks in effortlessly, boosting collagen and elastin production to smooth texture, refine fine lines, and enhance luminosity. Over time, it helps fortify the barrier, ensuring skin looks renewed and radiant even after long, demanding days.
Thoughtful layering of lightweight hydration helps prevent makeup from separating or appearing uneven, leaving skin supple, resilient, and perfectly primed for a radiant glow that lasts from day to night. Find out more with our skin hydration guide here.
Protect: Prime and Perfect for the Spotlight
The final touch in your Fashion Week skincare ritual is protection. Healthy, hydrated skin doesn’t just feel comfortable; it ensures makeup lasts longer, looks smoother, and photographs beautifully under the spotlight.
Begin with the delicate eye area. The Depuff & Define Contouring Eye Rescue is a high-performance treatment for dark circles, puffiness, and tired eyes. This powerful formula features a potent caffeine and peptide complex that actively prevents puffiness and under-eye bags, while pigmentation-correcting actives reduce shadowing and brighten the appearance of dark circles. It also helps to prevent collagen breakdown and loss of elasticity, keeping the eye contour smooth and resilient. With fast-acting peptides to support circulation, and hyaluronic acid for hydration, this treatment ensures eyes look refreshed, defined, and youthful.
Follow with the Tint & Protect Skin-Perfecting SPF 30, a multitasking formula that blends broad-spectrum UVA/UVB protection with a luminous tint. Designed with second-skin technology, it evens tone and blurs imperfections while hydrating with hyaluronic acid and Kahai nut oil. Vitamin C works to brighten and support collagen, leaving a soft-focus glow that looks natural, dewy, and long-lasting. Together, these protective steps ensure your skin is balanced, radiant, and makeup-ready from the first call time to the final after-party.
Shine Brighter: LED Skincare at London Fashion Week
In the whirlwind of London Fashion Week, your skin might need a boost beyond your daily rituals. This is where our LightMAX Supercharged LED Mask comes in. This sleek, lightweight mask is designed to fortify your complexion during the intensity of show season. Harnessing advanced, multi-wavelength LED technology, this professional-grade device stimulates collagen, reduces redness, soothes inflammation, and helps repair skin stressed by travel, makeup, and flashing cameras. Portable and effortless to use, it boosts your skincare ritual into a runway-ready treatment, delivering visible rejuvenation in just minutes; the ultimate backstage secret for glowing, radiant skin.
Express Yourself Through Skincare
Fashion Week is more than a showcase of the latest clothing trends; it’s an expression of individuality, confidence and creativity. With the right preparation, your skin can reflect the same qualities, radiating vitality beneath every makeup look. MZ SKIN’s science-led formulations, paired with rejuvenating, sensorial textures, make it effortless to maintain a complexion that is bright, healthy, and resilient; not only during the intensity of Fashion Week but in every moment of daily life.
Runway beauty starts with a skincare ritual, not just makeup.
