LFW backstage beauty: Floridian ’50s housewives at Jonathan Saunders
Ahh, Florida; the ‘50s Miami woman inspired the hair and makeup at Jonathan Saunders, where Paul Hanlon first blow-dried hair using Fekkai Strong Hold Mousse—“it gives a lot of guts to the hair,” he said—then parted it on the right and combed it into a low ponytail, tied with a basic black elastic. Then, using his fingers, he pulled bits out around the ears. “It gives it a feeling of being undone; a moment that’s just gone kind of wrong,” he said. “It’s a little bit disrupted and takes away from it looking so done.” The finishing touch: a brown bobby pin, its end tucked in, pinned just the way a girl would to get her hair off her face. Easy, not too messy, and not too clean.
Meanwhile, Lucia Pieroni created a makeup look reminiscent of a “housewife in the ‘50s that’s particular and meticulous, but one that’s been on Valium a bit too long, so she’s a bit kooky and deranged,” she said. A dewy, natural face with a bit of M.A.C’s Fusion Gold on the cheeks was punctuated by strong, black eyeliner—Fluidline in “Blacktrack”—applied with an angled brush. “It’s not Amy Winehouse, though,” said Pieroni, “it’s more ‘50s.”
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Ahh, Florida; the ‘50s Miami woman inspired the hair and makeup at Jonathan Saunders, where Paul Hanlon first blow-dried hair using Fekkai Strong Hold Mousse—“it gives a lot of guts to the hair,” he said—then parted it on the right and combed it into a low ponytail, tied with a basic black elastic. Then, using his fingers, he pulled bits out around the ears. “It gives it a feeling of being undone; a moment that’s just gone kind of wrong,” he said. “It’s a little bit disrupted and takes away from it looking so done.” The finishing touch: a brown bobby pin, its end tucked in, pinned just the way a girl would to get her hair off her face. Easy, not too messy, and not too clean.
Meanwhile, Lucia Pieroni created a makeup look reminiscent of a “housewife in the ‘50s that’s particular and meticulous, but one that’s been on Valium a bit too long, so she’s a bit kooky and deranged,” she said. A dewy, natural face with a bit of M.A.C’s Fusion Gold on the cheeks was punctuated by strong, black eyeliner—Fluidline in “Blacktrack”—applied with an angled brush. “It’s not Amy Winehouse, though,” said Pieroni, “it’s more ‘50s.”
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