Designers know what they’re getting when they work with Isamaya Ffrench, the make-up artist and founder of the make-up line Isamaya – and it’s never “French girl” beauty or “no-make-up make-up,” fashion week clichés for designers who prefer that beauty silently accessorise their clothes with invisible make-up and non-hairstyles.

In February, Ffrench spent days prepping prosthetics and special effects for the Collina Strada “Don’t Eat My Friends” show, in which models were turned into birds with exaggerated foam beaks or cats with rhinestone patchwork ears. At Dion Lee, Ffrench liquefied iridescent green eye shadow so she could airbrush it over laser-cut, lizard-effect stencils. Models looked like really pretty reptiles.