LBS Backstage Beauty: Ruffian Fall 2014

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There isn’t anything more exhilarating than Fashion Week madness, but we love the craziness backstage and we’ve got the inside beauty scoop for you from duo designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais’ Ruffian .

Catwalk by TIGI’s Global Creative Director Nick Irwin teamed up with Ruffian to create a sophisticated uptown girl inspired hair look for the runway. The hairstyles has a bit of an 80s inspiration but richer and expensive looking. Beauty tools were provided by Olivia Garden which included:

  • their innovative “Double Clip” (which holds multiple hair sections in one clip, totally awesome),
  • the DV-1 Wet Detangler Brush (which has tension flex bristles, works on all hair textures and fits as an extension on the palm of the hand),
  • the NanoThermic Ceramic Ion Thermal Brush (which has Ceramic and Ionic technology, it is fast drying and promotes shiny and healthy hair by hydrating. The Nano silver within the brush makes it antibacterial which is ideal for a professional workspace)

and

  • the Supreme Combo Brush (which is a finishing paddle brush with boar and ionic bristles which helps spread natural hair oils distributing it throughout the shaft while controlling flyways).

Olivia Garden

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Pulling together a cohesive and complete look, MUA James Kaliardos of M.A.C. was inspired by Helmut Newton and Estee Lauder circa 1982 which he wanted to portray as a woman from the Upper East Side with a luxurious look of smokey eyes created using the Brun, and Stony Eye Shadow for an “Electric cool pure concentrated effect”. The bold dark lips were achieved using MAC Burgundy Lip Pencil to define the lip shape and Crushed Cranberry (AW14 Lip Palette) to the attract focus on the center of the lip.

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And let’s not forget the nails! Perfectly matching the sophisticated look, the nails are minimal with a focus on metallics (in Copper and Lilac) attracting light on the runway in one of our favorite classy nail art styles, the half-moon.

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Related: LBS BACKSTAGE BEAUTY: Mara Hoffman Fall 2014

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