Go Backstage at Tibi

The Fall 2010 collection was a combination of greys and dirty mauves mixed into fabrics of velvets and satins. Sticking with the color scheme of the clothing, Wendy Rowe of Bobbi Brown used greys and blacks on the eyes to compliment it. On models of lighter skin tones she used Bobbi Brown Slate Eye Shadow and on darker she used a more greyish-mauve shade called Suede.  To create a 1950's cat eye, she lined the top of the lids with black eye liner and added some false lashes to the outer corners.  The skin was a satin finish and lip was a soft pink, Beige Lip Color.

"Curly girls are happy girls," Frank Rizzieri of R Session Tools stated backstage when describing the reasoning behind the look.  Using two irons throughout the whole head, one 1/4" and the other 3/4", spiral curls were created on each model.  They weren't cookie-cutter curls, but instead had the look of coming home from the party curls.

R Session Tools is known for their innovative hot tools and they introduced me to their new red mat that they were laying all of their curling irons and blow dryers on.  The red turns white when your tool is heated up and protects the counter space.  It also keeps your hair dryer from vibrating off your dresser when placing it down for a second.

Dashing Diva kept the nails short and natural and painted a mushroomy color on all of the models.  Patti Yankee explained it was a mix of Astor Place and West Village that she created for the show.  "There's such a demand for this color right now we're trying to get it into production as soon as possible," she concluded.

Go Backstage at Elie Tahari

This was the first show of the season that I attended where there were male models that needed some primping (grooming?) too.  Some of them were extreme divas, which is why I'm calling it primping.  The fall 2010 Elie Tahari collection experimented with texture.  One half was all black and the other was predominately gold, tan and copper. Kimberly Soane lead the Bobbi Brown lead the Bobbi Brown team in creating a gold chrome finish on the eye lined in a bright, electric blue-green shade that gave it a retro twist. The brows had a very natural finish and she introduced Bobbi's new Denim and Rose Palette, which comes out this fall, but using the dusty pinks on the cheeks and lips.

The men carried the "no makeup, makeup look" very well with a minimal amount of powder, keeping their skin pale, Bobbi Brown's Lip Balm SPF 15 and the emphasis was on the brows.  They were filled in to make them strong and defined.

Frank Rizzieri styled the women using a double barreled curling iron that created loose waves and kept the hair "simple and messy" using only a L'Oreal Elnett Hairspray at the end. The men's look completely contrasted. The inspiration was pulled from Mad Men and using Bumble & Bumble Gel the Multi-Talented Sculpting Medium, he side parted their hair and slicked it back so it was all neatly groomed.

Dashing Diva's, Patti Yankee ironically chose the color Fashion Week for the manicures and pedicures.  "I wanted to keep the nail neutral using this pale pink because there were a lot of browns and blacks in the line," she stated. Her team of four worked on the hands and feet of 35 girls backstage.  They also cleaned up all of the men's nails.