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Lead Stylist for the beauty inspiration, Sarah Lucero for Stila Cosmetics and Beauty.com channels Vintage Hollywood glam for the catwalk at Lela Rose. Stila fashioned a bold lip and a soft eye to compliment Lela Rose’s Fall 2011 collection. The contemporary update on old school glam is feminine, sophisticated, and show-stopping both on and off the [...]
Chevy Cruzearati: Fashion Unexpected If you haven’t been following, over the last few months, I have been working on an amazing social media project with Chevrolet for the launch of their CHEVY CRUZE! They have chosen ME, The Curvy Fashionista as their Fashion Cruzearati to cover fashion from across the country! My latest adventures took me to [...]
Before the glitz and glam that parades down the catwalk, designers come to the drawing board with distinguished hair and make-up teams to create the vision we see walk down the runway. For Fall 2011, Christian Siriano’s vision was created with the help of MAC and Aveda. Below we talk to the lead and key [...]
20-year M.A.C. Artist extraordinaire Gordon Espinet was responsible for bringing to life a Brigitte Bardot-inspired look to the runway for designer Behnaz Sarafpour’s fall season reveals. Espinet described the look as “luminous,” “skin care-y,” “just left the spa.” Avoid matte and overdone this fall. Prep face with primer and concealer, then top with a light [...]
It’s that time of year again! I’m i NYC covering backstage beauty at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. These are the Fall/Winter collections which I always love seeing the most. No on to business, I love love love a good updo….I think that a sexy updo circa 1959-1962 is always classic and timeless – that’s exactly [...]
Preen was the first pop of color around the eyes I got to see backstage early in the week! James Kaliardos created an ethereal and fun look for the S/S 2011 “inspired by Egypt…the colors of the sand.” The face was prepped with MAC Face & Body Prep+Prime Transparent Finishing Powder $22.00. Give-Me-Sun! Mineralized Skinfinish [...]
Backstage at United Bamboo, Dick Page sited the clothing of the S/S 2011 collection as his inspiration for the makeup. Since the runway was so close to where the guests would be sitting, Page wanted to make the models look flawless, carefree and almost like they weren’t wearing any makeup at all. Page created a [...]
Can’t get enough of the latest hair from Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011? Well…I am sensing a trend!!! Nelson Vercher of Rita Hazan Salon spent a few minutes backstage at Costello Tagliapietra to tell me a little bit about the effortless and elegant chignons (read: ANOTHER BUN!!) he created for the show. Inspired by [...]
Talk about easy makeup for spring! NARS Cosmetics created the look for 3.1 phillip lim at the women’s s/s 2011, “Youthful elegance was what we were aiming for,” said lead makeup artist Lisa Butler. Depending on the model’s skin and look, some of them wore next to no makeup for the show! Everything was colorless, [...]
Designer Chris Benz tapped into an American-girl-in-Paris mode (circa the late 1960’s) for his spring collection this week. The presentation, held in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, featured models standing against a video screen on which the cult Claude Lelouch “C’était un Rendezvous” short film was screened. The clothes were a medley of [...]
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