Pat McGrath Breaks a 30-Year Beauty Secret With the Launch of Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Legendary Glow Setting Spray

• For over three decades, Pat McGrath—yes, that Pat McGrath, the empress of editorial beauty—has been holding onto a well-kept secret.

• “Back in the day, my mother would always do heavy makeup and then say, ‘Take a bath to create a lived-in look,’” McGrath confessed, beaming with nostalgia at her exclusive product launch in New York City. “This,” she said, holding up a sleek, glimmering bottle, “is basically that bath moment… in your handbag.”

Welcome to the world of Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Legendary Glow Setting Spray, the latest gem in the legendary McGrath lineup.

• Long before the market was swimming in mists and mattifiers, McGrath was hand-blending her own secret potions—because the formulas in the '90s were, in her own words, “oily and horrific.”

• That elusive DIY formula became the finishing touch on some of the most jaw-dropping beauty moments of the decade. Think: Amber Valletta’s silver tears. Inky-black, glassy eyes that looked like they were dipped in midnight. The kind of visuals that didn’t just live on the page—they whispered into the soul of fashion.

  
  

And now, that hush-hush elixir has finally been bottled for the rest of us.

• The new setting spray follows in the footsteps of last year’s internet-breaking debut: Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Artistry Mask—a backstage-only marvel that helped McGrath craft the porcelain doll skin at Maison Margiela’s couture show. Once a distillation ritual reserved for her inner circle (and those with a blow-dryer and serious patience), the mask became the stuff of beauty legend.

• The setting spray offers the same ethereal finish, minus the commitment. It’s lighter. Faster. More wearable. The everyday counterpart to the haute couture mask. While the mask required layer after layer (plus drying time), this mist delivers a lacquered glow in under two minutes—and it stays for 16 hours.

• Inside the bottle: aloe leaf juice, cucumber extract, and black tulip. These are not just pretty names—they help blur, hydrate, and lock in color with a satin-glass finish that feels somewhere between science and sorcery.

“I’m just so happy to share this with you,” McGrath said with the unmistakable joy of someone who’s been dying to spill the tea. “It was always a secret. For 30-plus years, we never told you.”

And now? She’s talking. She’s sharing. She’s unlocking the vault.

One thing is clear: McGrath isn’t just launching products—she’s giving us a masterclass in modern mythology.

So the next time you mist, remember: you’re not just setting makeup. You’re stepping into a legacy, one glossy glow at a time.