Behind the Scenes at Our PS1 Move! Weekend

Lancome was the makeup sponsor for PS1 Move!, the performance art/fashion event that took place over Halloween weekend with the likes of Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Calvin Klein, Cynthia Rowley and others. Here's a behind-the-scenes video shot by our friends at Phear Creative. Eagle-eyed makeup artist fans will spot some of our favorite MUAs, including Alice Lane, Kim White and Andrew Sotomayor. Can you believe those silver Calvin Klein models? Or the Cynthia Rowley models and the paint?



As you can imagine, we went through quite a bit of the blue Bi-Facil eye makeup remover and our cult Eau Fraiche Douceur cleansing water at the end of each day.



The weekend was a lot of fun and quite a stretch from the usual makeup event. Let us know what you think!

Our Crazy PS1 Weekend! Art! Fashion! Makeup!

As mentioned, the Lancome team spent the weekend at PS1, the Long Island City museum, doing makeup for Move! This event paired top performance artists and designers for a series of performances and installations. The delightful and talented Alice Lane led the makeup team, which included some of our favorite artists such as Oslyn Holder, Kim White and Andrew Sotomayor.



The weekend was intense and crazy. Each day began at 9 a.m. when the team had to paint three very handsome Calvin Klein models with silver body paint and then coat them with silver leaf. This in itself was performance art. It took almost three hours the first day. Andrew, it turns out, is a master body painter!



I'll try to write more later. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit us, including our fave new blogger, Emily Weiss of Into the Gloss. (Check out her great post.) In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!!

CAPTIONS:

1. One of the silver Calvin Klein models. These guys were sooo patient.

2. Visitors to the Cheryl room

3. One of the spoken word performers from the Alexander Wang collaboration

4. Doing makeup in the Cheryl room

5. One of the Rodarte performers

6. Applying the silver leaf

7. The Terence Koh/Calvin Klein performance

8. Terence Koh (center) with Alice Lane (right)

9. The silver Calvin Klein models

10. Move! curators Cecilia Dean and David Coleman

11. Lancome lipsticks and crushed eye eyeshadows. (Don't they look pretty crushed up?)

12. A Rodarte performer gets his opal face mask

13. Me & Alice Lane

14. Cynthia Rowley's installation. Happy not to be one of those models! Yes, that's real paint being poured on her head.

15. Cheryl's dance party

PHOTOS BY COLIN LANE

Join Us on Fashion's Night Out in NYC!

Do any of you live in or near New York City? If so, we'd love for you to join us for Fashion's Night Out on Friday, Sept. 10th. I'm sure most of you have heard of Fashion's Night Out. It's the brainchild of American Vogue editor Anna Wintour. She wanted the fashion industry to do something to help stimulate the economy, so she came up with this idea for a city-wide shopping party. On FNO 2009, New York City was filled with designers, models, celebrities and lots of excited shoppers. It was a fun night and we did events with Daria, Elettra, Arlenis, Chris Benz, Daniel Martin, Sandy Linter and Andrew Sotomayor. Everyone had a blast.



This year, we've scaled it back a bit. To be honest, we were a bit spread thin last year! We tried to race from event to event, but it was impossible because of all the traffic--both cars and foot traffic! So this year we're doing two very special events. The first one is "tango lessons and touch-ups" at Bloomingdale's 59th Street. Our spokesmodels Elettra and Arlenis will be on hand at 6 p.m. to say hi to everyone and we'll have some amazing professional tango dancers doing mini-exhibitions every 30 minutes. If you'd like a quick tango lesson or a touch-up featuring products from our French Coquettes Fall 2010 collection, stop by and say hi.



We were thrilled when we opened September Vogue and saw that they chose "tango and touch-ups" as the #1 beauty event for FNO. (See the article above!) The Bloomingdale's event goes from 6 to 8 p.m.



Then at 7 p.m. over at Sephora Fifth Avenue (between 48th and 49th streets), our video makeup artist Michelle Phan will be making her very first personal appearance. She'll be doing a special video live in the front window. Then she and Vogue beauty editor Christina Han will be meeting and greeting customers from 8 to 9 p.m. If you have a question about how to make your own video or how to become a beauty editor, come over and chat with us. I'll be there too.



If you can't make it, don't worry. We'll have lots of photos to share after the event.



If you live in the U.S., enjoy the holiday weekend! The rest of you, have a great weekend too!

Getting Ready for Our Eat Pray Love Screening!

Tonight, we're hosting a makeup artist screening of "Eat Pray Love." We're really excited as we've invited 50 of our favorite makeup artists. We're having a little cocktail party first and then we'll watch the movie. I think our spokesmodel Elettra Wiedemann is coming, so it will be nice to see her.



My friend and makeup artist Andrew Sotomayor is here, doing my makeup as I type. (Does everyone remember Andrew's cross-hatching tip with the white eyeliner?) Andrew has really long arms and great concentration ability, so he can do my makeup while I blog and take care of Lancome biz. Andrew used the Lancome Colour Dose eye cream tubes to give me a sheer pastel wash on my eyelids. Does anyone remember that product? Lancome launched those years ago, when I was an editor, and they were so much fun. Maybe it's time to bring them back.



Andrew has a blog that you should check out if you love makeup and want to follow the career of a young, hardworking and very talented makeup artist in New York City.



A lot of people ask me how to become a makeup artist, so I asked Andrew how he started. "I was supposed to be a makeup artist at a Lancome counter for one summer before I started college," said Andrew. "I ended up doing it all through college. I loved how different working with makeup was from my academic career." Andrew worked with graduate student photographers by doing the makeup for their photo shoots, and he bit by bit built his portfolio. "I learned to be an artist by trial and error and working on as many people as I possibly could. Everyday people, not just models."



Andrew has some very exciting things coming this fall that we're not allowed to talk about, but check back here in a few weeks and we'll share the news. Currently, he's part of the "Project Runway" makeup team, so tune in to see his work.



Okay, we're off to the screening. Check back tomorrow for an interview with Richard Dean, Julia Roberts' makeup artist on the "Eat Pray Love" set.