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subscribe to beauty blog via RSSBackstage At Zac Posen, Pretty Is Passé
February 20, 2009 4:38 pm
“Much too pretty,” makeup artist Lucia Pieroni said to a member of her team last night at Zac Posen. “She needs to look tougher.” And so the minion headed back to her station, MAC’s Smolder Eye Kohl in hand. “We’re going for a Tim Burton girl,” Pieroni explained: “a tough, moody, but still beautiful” look that centered around big eyes and huge lashes—think Helena Bonham Carter incarnate. Pieroni swept MAC Carbon and Print Eye Shadows from the lower lash line up around the outer corners of models’ eyes and filled in lids with softer shades of the gloomy hues. Echoes of Burton’s hauntingly gorgeous animation continued with a cupid’s bow lip in a bright orange color called Morange, which the makeup artist applied in a sheer layer and with a stronger hand toward the center of the mouth. Studded “headbands of thorns” and the casting of Sasha Pivovarova also helped Pieroni’s cause; the model can bear a striking resemblance to Burton’s Corpse Bride when she wants to.
tags: Helena Bonham Carter, Lucia Pieroni, MAC Cosmetics, Makeup, Sasha Pivovarova, Tim Burton, Zac Posen
