10 Questions with Ashley Olsen
Beauty Girl: What beauty trick did you learn from your mom?
Ashley Olsen: Always use eye cream.
Beauty Girl: What drugstore product do you swear by?
Ashley Olsen: Aquaphor.
Beauty Girl: What products would we find in your teensiest red carpet clutch?
Ashley Olsen: Cle de Peau Beaute concealer.
Beauty Girl: What products do you never travel without?
Ashley Olsen: Bio-Chic hair products and Belmont face products.
Beauty Girl: What’s your biggest beauty splurge?
Ashley Olsen: Hair color and facials.
Beauty Girl: Who is your beauty icon from the past?
Ashley Olsen: Brigitte Bardot.
Beauty Girl: Who is your current beauty icon?
Ashley Olsen: Lauren Hutton.
Beauty Girl: Which of your red carpet beauty looks was your favorite?
Ashley Olsen: The 2009 Met Ball in New York City.
Beauty Girl: If you could trade hair with anyone, who would it be?
Ashley Olsen: Penelope Cruz.
Beauty Girl: The one beauty trend you’ll never embrace and the one beauty trend you’d like to bring back?
Ashley Olsen: Hmm…never say never.
Photographer: Jason Mcdonald. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Eric Polito. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl.
Clothing: The Row
Ashley Olsen
Photographer: Jason Mcdonald. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Eric Polito. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl.
Clothing: The Row
Estee’s Picks for September
Fashion Director Estee Stanley shares her favorites for September.
The colors are DYNAMIC! | This holistic, natural cream seals in moisture with no harsh chemicals and keeps skin looking fresh and dewy. |
These shoes are heaven! They have a very cool, ’60s vibe to them. I love a kitten heel for day because they are less painful than a high heel and more glamorous than a flat. | My search for the perfect T-shirt is finally over! These Tee’s come in different colors and can be worn casual or very dressy. |
I’m not a skinny jeans girl, they look like leggings to me. So I love that these jeans are skinny and slouchy at the same time, they are so sexy. | I love his big, beaded jewelry to give a punch of color and pop to even the simplest of outfits. |
Gaining fame before your first birthday could mess with a person’s head. Unless, of course, you’re Ashley Olsen, and you were born with an insatiable desire to work—and to succeed, at that. At the age of twenty-four, she’s starred in countless TV shows, a handful of movies, recorded an album, interned for Zac Posen, written a book, inspired fashion movements, edited a magazine and launched three distinct, uber-successful fashion lines. So it’s fitting, then, that her proudest accomplishment has nothing to do with fame. Instead, it’s decidedly business-oriented. “Our most important accomplishment was gaining control of our company and taking our future into our own hands,” she told us this fall. You might also think that this young mogul, who’s been named to Forbes’s Celebrity 100 list multiple times, spends her free time swilling champagne in exclusive clubs, jetting to exotic locales and generally embracing The Good Life. Not so. “My idea of relaxing is staying home and spending time with my friends, my dog and doing yoga whenever I can,” she said. Perhaps it’s this innate business savvy mixed with her chilled-out, low key outlook that’s responsible for her success. When asked about her long-term career goals, Olsen didn’t wax poetic about expanding her empire. Instead, she responded humbly and without missing a beat: “Making it through fashion week.” Point taken.
Photographer: Jason Mcdonald. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Eric Polito. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl.
Clothing: The Row
Technicolor
BEHIND THE BRUSHES: Makeup Artist Kathy Jeung
Inspired by: “The colors from the ’80s. I wanted to modernize that time when women would layer tons of colors on their faces in any kind of mish mash fashion and still look fabulous. I wanted to give that look both structure and softness.”
This summer: Working on the set of Transformers 3 as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s personal makeup artist.
Beauty tip to live by: “Don’t overwhelm your face with color. Use this story to get giddy and excited, and then add a dash of color to your own look.
MAKEUP MOMENT
When you’re layering two colors of shadow, as Jeung did for this pink and orange look, “Try wetting your brush before applying powder shadow—it’s easier to draw a precise line, plus it helps it stay put. Or try loose powders, which have richly concentrated color and adhere well to the skin,” she says.
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Kathy Jeung. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl. Retouching: ConradDigital.com.
Fashion credits: Dress by The Row.
Technicolor 4
MAKEUP MOMENT
Even pastel hues, like this sea foam shade, can look intense when applied with gusto. “Give your lids a sheer wash of cream shadow and then top it with a matching powder for extra intense color,” says Jeung.
Photographer: Don Flood. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Kathy Jeung. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl. Retouching: ConradDigital.com.
Fashion credits: Tank dress by The Row.