What beauty trick did you learn from your mom?
To use lipstick as blush.
What drugstore product do you swear by?
Dr. Pepper Lipsmackers!
What products would we find in your teensiest red carpet clutch?
Blotting papers, bobby pins, lip gloss, and a teeny mirror.
What products do you never travel without?
Le Mer Moisturizing Lotion and Rosebud Salve.
What’s your biggest beauty splurge?
LA MER!
Who is your beauty icon from the past?
Grace Kelly and Ann Margaret.
Who is your current beauty icon?
Meryl Streep.
Which of your red carpet beauty looks was your favorite?
The 2007 Academy Awards. I wore this amazing green Proenza Schouler dress and I felt and looked so much like myself. So often I play characters so it is so nice to see pictures where I look like me.
If you could trade hair with anyone, who would it be?
I’ve always wanted to try a short hair style so I’ll say Carey Mulligan.
The one beauty trend you’ll never embrace
Pencil thin eyebrows or faux tans
The one beauty trend you’d like to bring back?
HOT ROLLERS!
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Molly R. Stern. Manicure: Tom Bachick. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Dress: Giambatista Valli. Shoes: Christian Louboutin.
I really do not know where to begin when writing about my client and my friend Amy Adams. She is the client I have worked with the longest, almost 8 years now, and I feel like we have “grown up” in this business together. I met Amy on a photo shoot for GQ magazine back in 2002, and I loved her immediately. We were shooting in the middle of the night at a bus stop on Fairfax Avenue and to pass the time, keep warm, and keep spirits up Amy and I were sneaking shots of tequila between set ups and telling funny stories from our pasts. Throughout the years, Amy has kept me busy woking on the most enviable mane of hair I have ever seen and she’s kept me laughing with her insane sense of humor and some of my favorite moments have been impromptu sing alongs to the soundtrack of The Little Mermaid.
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Molly R. Stern. Manicure: Tom Bachick. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Jacket: Louis Vuitton.
Amy was one of the first people who agreed to do a photo shoot for this project and when we talked about her look for the shoot she said she always wanted to have “wispy, layered hair” and wanted to play with bangs so I got a few wigs for us to play with. Amy is naturally blonde, but I love her as a red head, she has experimented with many different shades from deep red to strawberry and she has also been pretty bold with her hair cuts, she will grow it until she can’t take it anymore and then go for a big chop, cutting it to her shoulders.
Striped top: Charlotte Ronson. Earrings: Tiffany and Co.
