Get the Look: Cover Star Billy Porter’s Metallic Makeup

Get the Look: Cover Star Billy Porter’s Metallic Makeup
Photography Courtesy of Nick Merzetti

Your guide to Billy Porter-level glam, plus the products you’ll need.

On our March 2024 cover, actor, vocalist, and fashion icon Billy Porter shines like the star he is. Wearing makeup by Porter’s makeup artist of 13 years, La Sonya Gunther, Porter poses for the cover image with smooth, matte skin and eyelids painted with golden graphic liner. In the spread, the Pose star rocks metallic makeup looks in playful purple and futuristic silver hues—bold enough to inspire, yet totally possible to recreate at home.

Loving Porter’s looks? Ahead, we break down three of our favourite makeup moments from the March 2024 issue, plus the products you’ll need to recreate this glam!

Golden Glam

Photography Courtesy of Nick Merzetti

For look one, Porter models a bold brow, strokes of floating gold graphic liner, and a subtle swipe of gold highlighter across the cheeks for a lustrous glow.


Maybelline New York’s newly launched 2-in-1 Build a Brow is the secret weapon for natural-looking brows that can be groomed to perfection, like Porter’s—or any way you like. One end of the product features an ultra-precise pen to help draw on hairlike strokes, while the brush and brow gel on the other side locks the hairs in place.

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To achieve this graphic liner glam, pick up a gold liner like Stila’s Stay All Day Artstix Graphic Liner in the shade “Charleston.” Create a thick, golden line beneath the brow bone and down the sides of the nose, and just under the eye to get Porter’s cover look.

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For a subtle golden highlight that shows up and shows out on camera, opt for Tom Ford’s Soleil de Feu Glow Highlighter in the shade “Mirage.” This warm gold powder imparts a radiant glow over the cheeks that feels lightweight and looks superb.

Striking Silver

Photography Courtesy of Nick Merzetti

Look two features a stunning silver liner look paired with glassy, dewy skin and a clear lip balm…

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