6 Picks with Amy Adams
“I have long lashes and this mascara makes them full and thick and doesn’t clump.”
“The cucumber is my favorite!”
Cynthia Vincent Knee High Boots. “Most knee high boots make me think ‘naughty’ but these are so versatile and elegant, and maybe just a little bit naughty”
. “I use this at night and I’ve noticed it helps even out my skin texture, I have extremely dry skin.”
Teutonia Stroller. “I’m a new mom and this is a whole traveling system with car seat and stroller. It is all purpose and so amazing, and it is table height!”
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Molly R. Stern. Manicure: Tom Bachick. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Dress: Miss Davenporte. Leggings: Iliann Loeb.
10 Questions with Amy Adams
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.
Amy was actually pregnant when we did this shoot and watching her become a mother has been so beautiful. I feel so lucky that I have been able to see Amy receive so many amazing accolades for her incredible acting skills, but seeing her with her daughter is what makes me most proud to be her friend.
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 Gillian Zinser
What beauty trick did you learn from your mom?
Less is more.
What drugstore product do you swear by?
Cocoa Butter Swivel Stick.
What products would we find in your teensiest red carpet clutch?
(this color is no longer available, but check out the other colors) and Tom Ford Black Orchid Perfume Pen.
What products do you never travel without?
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What’s your biggest beauty splurge?
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Who is your beauty icon from the past?
Pocahontas.
Who is your current beauty icon?
Patti Smith.
Which of your red carpet beauty looks was your favorite?
This year’s Teen Vogue Young Hollywood soiree. Fewer things make me happier than a sequined muumuu.
If you could trade hair with anyone, who would it be?
Jem from the ’90s cartoon Jem and the Holograms.
The one beauty trend you’ll never embrace?
Hair extensions.
…and the one beauty trend you’d like to bring back?
The hair scarf.
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make Up: Rachel Goodwin. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Dress by Miss Davenport.
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.
Quick Tips for Long Hair
QUICK TIP: Not only is Townsend bringing back the crimping iron, but he’s bringing back hot rollers, too! “If you’re going to go through the trouble of having long hair, you might as well play with it,” he says. This style was achieved setting the entire head in steam rollers. Simply hold the curler close to your scalp and roll the section of hair upwards. That way, the hair around your face stays smooth, while the ends have tons of lived-in texture.
LONG FORM: Break up too-perfect tendrils with a dose of wave spray—and your fingertips.
QUICK TIP: Extra-long, extra-straight hair is about as glamorous as it gets. To get yours just right, comb through two-inch sections of dry hair with a hair brush first, followed by a curling iron. (The two-handed technique isn’t easy to master, but the results speak for themselves.)
LONG FORM: No matter how straight you want you final look, always add a little bend—that is, by flicking the iron upwards a bit with your wrist at the bottom of your hair. Pulling straight down can make ends appear frayed and messy.
QUICK TIP: Because the impact of long hair has a lot to do with the sheer length of it, you don’t always need a fussy or extra-coiffed style to turn heads. Take these imprecise waves that Townsend achieved simply by twisting the hair into a bun while model Eleanor Lambert was in the makeup chair.
LONG FORM: “Blast your strands with hairspray first so that they’ll hold onto whatever texture they get while you have it pinned up,” says Townsend.
QUICK TIP: We know what you’re thinking: The trusty crimper is best reserved for ‘80s-themed parties. But according to Townsend, artfully crimped strands can have a modern appeal. “The key is being haphazard with it. Take some big chunky 5-inch sections and take some teensy pieces. And tease out a few sections by brushing through them for a really diffuse, blown-out finish.”
LONG FORM: Long hair has been around, well, longer—which means it’s way more susceptible to any kind of damage. Especially the kind from heated styling tools. Before you pick up a dryer, crimper, flatiron or curling iron, be sure to treat your strands to a heavy-duty heat protectant spray.
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Kate Lee. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl. Model: Eleanor Lambert.
