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When it came to the beauty look for his fall show, designer Joseph Altuzarra took this adage to heart, topping off a simple face and hairstyle with a chic flourish — elegant headbands made of fur, velvet and different leather skins, some embellished with pearls, and each individually custom crafted to match the clothes in the collection.
The headbands were perched atop low ponytails consisting of hair that had been curled into waves.
“It’s something very chic, and with the texture of the hair it’s very sophisticated,” said hairstylist Odile Gilbert for TRESemmé. Gilbert curled hair with a curling iron to create loose barrel waves, leaving two inches untouched at the end for a natural look. Pre-blow dry, TRESemmé Beauty-Full Volume Mousse was applied to hair for body. Headbands were fastened two inches above the forehead, and girls with fine hair were given a blast of volume with the Beauty-Full Volume Hair Maximizer. Girls with square-cut bobs kept their natural styles in lieu of the show’s uniform waves. “It’s cute that way!” Gilbert exclaimed. She acknowledged that despite the show’s singular look, individuality continues to permeate runway hair. “More and more, don’t you think?” she mused in conversation with WWD.
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Tom Pecheux’s makeup look was light and glowing, which he attributed to the designer’s inspiration — Renaissance-era portraits found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It’s a very girly, natural face,” said Pecheux, who was working on behalf of MAC Cosmetics. “The French call it ‘the young girl with the pearl’ after the famous painting.” Glowing skin, of course, was first and foremost. “We are making a very light, lighter than the skin-tone, halo-y finish,” said Pecheux.
True to his word, he kept it light, relying mostly on MAC’s Extra Dimension Blush in Into the Pink, a true shade of pink that he dabbed on cheekbones, eyelid creases and lips.
Nails by Mar Y Soul for Zoya were a crisp custom red, blended to match the collection using the shades Gia and Courtney.