Troian Bellisario: Behind the Scenes Video
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Photographer: Stephanie Vovas. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Kayleen McAdams. Manicurist: Debbie Leavitt. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Behind the Scenes: Tom Rollason.
10 Questions with Troian Bellisario
MTB: What beauty trick did you learn from your mom?
TB: Eye Cream, every night. Starting that habit as young as possible and drinking as much water as possible throughout the day.
MTB: What drugstore product do you swear by?
TB: I get everything from the drugstore. Shampoo, Conditioner, lotion. I just follow my nose as to what smells I like best and then I grab it and go.
MTB: What products would we find in your teensiest red carpet clutch?
TB: My phone…if I can fit it. What else could possible be stuffed in those things? They’re for fairies, not people.
MTB: What products do you never travel without?
TB: A book and my journal.
MTB: What’s your biggest beauty splurge?
TB: Umm…organic beauty products from Whole Foods? Please don’t ask me for names, I couldn’t tell you if I wanted to.
MTB: Who is your beauty icon from the past?
TB: Patti Smith and Audrey Hepburn.
MTB: Who is your current beauty icon?
TB: Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman.
MTB: Which of your red carpet beauty looks was your favorite?
TB:Oh, wow! I seriously just spent 30 minutes online looking at the Red Carpet looks of other actresses I admire trying to find a favorite. I was getting very, very frustrated because I thought, “I’m never going to find just one!” And then I re-read this question and saw the word, “your.” Well, that just got a lot easier because I’ve only had about three red carpet looks. So, I guess the Teen Choice Awards dress? It was sparkly.
MTB: If you could trade hair with anyone, who would it be?
TB: Right now? Mia Wasikowska or Carrie Mulligan. I’m dying to get a role where they ask me to cut off all my hair. I’ve always had long hair, I think I will for the majority of my life, but just once I’d like to chop it all off or even shave it!
MTB: The one beauty trend you’ll never embrace and the one beauty trend you’d like to bring back?
TB: The neon colors of the late ’80s early ’90s. Please, please, let them rest in peace. I get frightened whenever a magazine does a spread with nuclear turquoise eye shadow and they capitalize the words “IT’S BACK!” The thick liner of the ’60s. I love Anna Karenna’s eyes in Une Femme est une Femme, any Godard film really. I adore that style of make up.
Photographer: Stephanie Vovas. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Kayleen McAdams. Manicurist: Debbie Leavitt. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Men’s shirt: Steven Allen. Hat: Vintage.
. It’s pretty much the only piece of make up I wear. I don’t know how to do any other look than a smoky eye, but really I don’t want much else, maybe some blush. I’m just trying to look like Patti Smith three hours after a show. So I’ll generally put it on on Friday night and by Sunday morning it’s bled into the perfect look. Rebecca, who does my make up on the show, is always rubbing it off. I don’t think she ever believes me when I say I’ve washed my face, but I swear I do. I mean…not often…but I do.
. Not the honey, not the tinted, the peppermint. It burns, that’s how I know it’s working.
. Hi my name is Troian Bellisario, and I am a Kombucha-holic.
. I usually hate my hair. When I was younger it was enormous and frizzy and often decided to settle into a pyramid shape around my face, and now that I am older it just kind of frizzes out in odd unattractive angles. The only time I love my hair is when it’s dried after the beach. The salt makes it curl into a perfect mess. I feel so beautiful. But since I cannot be in the ocean everyday…this stuff is the next best thing.
Griffith Park. Nothing makes me happier than hiking in Griffith Park. When it rains it looks like you are walking through clouds and when the sun is setting and you can see the whole of Los Angeles, like an ocean of lights. It’s Heaven…there’s nowhere I would rather be (maybe New York or Paris, but lets be realistic.) I also have a massive obsession with nature. The more species of trees and flowers I can identify along the trails the happier I feel.
My Record Collection. There is nothing better than the warmth of analog. With all of the condensing and formatting of our music, we don’t realize what we are missing. Get your favorite song and play it on a record. It’s sounds like firewood, it’s breathy and human. We also are so inundated with music now that we forget to appreciate it. It is always in our ears, in the background of our car conversations, floating through the malls. When you listen to a record, it is a singular activity. You have to select the whole album, and put it on. You don’t listen to one hit single, you hear the progression of songs the way the artist intended. It’s a journey. I could not sound more pretentious right now, but this is important to me!
Photographer: Stephanie Vovas. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Kayleen McAdams. Manicurist: Debbie Leavitt. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Dress: Vintage. Knee highs: Prada. Shoes: Dior.
Troian Bellisario
I am completely obsessed with the ABC Family show Pretty Little Liars and even more obsessed with the gorgeous star of the show, Troian Bellisario. She is über cool, breath taking and has amazing style. I was thrilled when I got the chance to work with Troian and loved every minute of it!
Photographer: Stephanie Vovas. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Kayleen McAdams. Manicurist: Debbie Leavitt. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Sweater: The Row. Shorts: Kiki de Montparnase. Knee highs: Prada.
Top: Vintage
As Britta Perry, the consummate East Coaster on NBC’s Community, Gillian Jacobs struggles with her pronunciation of everyone’s favorite carb—insisting that in New York, where she’s lived, they’re called “bag-els” not “bay-gels.” Correcting pronunciation comes naturally for Jacobs. (Her own name is said with a hard G—like Gilligan—not with a J, like the no-bs-no-carbs trainer, Jillian Michaels.) But having a tacit connection with the goofy, bumbling Gilligan is no problem for Jacobs, who in spite of her formal Julliard training and her modelesque good looks, is an unflinchingly deadpan comedian. “One thing that’s true for both comedy and drama is that you can’t hold onto your vanity very tightly. I have to be willing to look like a fool on a regular basis, and that’s okay with me,” she told us. On the day she shot with us, however, she hardly looked the fool. “I’ve never felt more confident and glam than I did that day,” she said. But rest assured—no matter how we’d asked her to pose, Jacobs would have gone there, gladly—and with hard Gs.
“Being on a photo shoot is pure fun to me. You feel comfortable to put yourself out there and push things an extreme,” Jacobs said. “Plus, I’ve watched enough America’s Next Top Model to know how to act—I can usually get through them without even crying.”
“My natural hair color is a dirty blond, but I was white-blond as a kid. That’s my true hair color—I have a right to be this blond.”
Photographer: Stephanie Vovas. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Rachel Goodwin. Manicure: Debbie Leavitt. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl. Jacket: Victoria’s Secret. Slip: Eres.
Rachel Goodwin: “When playing up both the eyes and the mouth, keep it from looking harsh by using sheer, see through textures.”
To get this look, Goodwin used Koh Gen Do Aqua foundation in OC-1 and applied Jouer cheek tint in Poppy. She lined the eyes with and used Make Up Forever’s Gold Cream Color for the lids, and finished with . The lip is Nars Lip Gloss in Risky Business.
Jacobs has two beauty icons: “Brigitte Bardot for her hyper-femininity with all that hair and all those lips and all those curves. And Tilda Swinton, for going out without makeup and throwing it in the face of everyone.”
Photographer: Stephanie Vovas. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Rachel Goodwin. Manicure: Debbie Leavitt. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl. Jacket: Victoria’s Secret. Slip: Eres. Shoes: Sergio Rossi.
