Read the Interview with Richard Dean, Julia Roberts' Makeup Artist from Eat Pray Love...and Get Julia's Look from the Premiere

Hi, everyone. Crazy week! Our makeup artist screening for "Eat Pray Love" last night was amazing. I'll post about it next week. So many of our favorite makeup artists attended and we loved meeting Christa, the blog reader who won tickets to the screening.



Head over to makeup.com this weekend and check out the great interview that Lancome head of makeup artistry relations Erin Cerminara did with Richard Dean, Julia Roberts' makeup artist for "Eat Pray Love." Learn how they dealt with the heat and humidity in Rome, India and Bali. If Erin's reading this, Hi, Erin! We miss you. Erin gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Aston a month ago and is on maternity leave.



Also, our friends at kissandmakeup.tv did a post on Julia's eye makeup from the premiere. It's a pretty soft plum look. Very nice if you have brown eyes! See above.



Have a great weekend. I'm off to see my family for a few days. Next week, we'll wrap up our "Eat Pray Love" posts and we'll also have some fun giveaways. I'm calling next week "Entrepreneur Week." We're going to be celebrating people who are doing their own thing and the giveaways will reflect that!



Talk to you Monday...

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.