Beijing and Hong Kong, Here We Come!

Hi, everyone. I'm at the San Francisco International Airport, waiting for Michelle Phan to arrive from Los Angeles. I flew here last night to beat the snowstorm in New York. Things were crazy at JFK, but I did get to catch up with one of my favorite makeup artists, Alice Lane, who was en route to a Vogue assignment. Remember Alice from our PS1 event? (If no, click here to read about our fun weekend with her.) I love bumping into people at the airport. Reminds you that it's a small world.



Speaking of small world, Michelle and I are flying to Beijing in a few hours for a Lancome trip that includes the China launch of Teint Miracle foundation. Very exciting. I've never been to China before and can't wait to see what it's like. I'm especially curious about the Chinese beauty editors. I wonder what they're like compared to their American counterparts. Lancome China also has a very successful online community called Rose Beauty that I want to learn more about. Do any of you know about that? It doesn't sound similar to anything we have in the U.S., so I'm curious about it.



The China team has a ton of activities planned for us. As long as I can access my Blogger account, I'll post pictures and news about what we're up to. If you have suggestions for things we should see or do in Beijing, please let me know!



After Beijing, we're flying to Hong Kong for a few days to meet with the beauty editors there. If you live in Hong Kong and want to say hi, Michelle will be making a personal appearance at the Lancome boutique at Festival Walk on Jan. 20th from 6 to 8 p.m. Michelle and I would also love suggestions on things to see and do in Hong Kong, so please leave a comment if you have ideas for us.



Michelle's here, so wish us a bon voyage! Talk to you soon.

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

Lancôme's Artsy Halloween @ PS1!

OLAF BREUNING AND CYNTHIA ROWLEY FOR MOVE! AT MOMA PS1 from V Magazine on Vimeo.

If you're in New York this Halloween weekend, stop by PS1 for Move!, a series of fashion and performance art collaborations curated by Visionaire magazine. Lancôme will be doing all the makeup. Our lead makeup artist for the weekend will be the lovely and talented Alice Lane. (If you didn't read about Alice in Vogue recently, check out the article above.) Alice and her team will be applying lots of body paint, face makeup and even silver leaf to dozens of dancers and performance artists over the course of the two-day event. We'll be packing a lot of Bi-Facil!



Some of our favorite fashion brands are involved, such as Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs and Cynthia Rowley, and several amazing artists. If you're around, stop by and say hi. The makeup area is open to the public. The entire event is free and open to the public.



For our friends who don't live near NYC, we'll have a video and lots of pictures to share with you soon.



Enjoy the video from Cynthia Rowley!