Designer: Loris Diran
Stylist: Christo, Christo Fifth Avenue Salon
Inspiration: Hollywood glamour
The look: Undone UpdoFirst, curl expert Christo of New York’s Christo Fifth Avenue Salon brings Hollywood curls back to life — with a twist — for Loris Diran’s collection.
“The hair is going to go up, but there are a lot of waves to it,” Christo says. “We’ll scrunch the curls a bit to create texture, and twist it into a chignon in the back, but very undone.”
Christo suggests settling into this sexy style after a day of carefree curls.
“The very next day, take a curling iron and curl the hair,” he explains. “Then mess the curls up a little bit and tease the root area so it doesn’t look so sleek. Then direct the hair back with little pins below the crown, so you don’t see them. Next, the hair goes up, with a little bit of height by the crown, and comes down to the low nape in a side chignon twist, but it will look a bit undone, beautiful and sexy.”
Christo works his magic with Curlisto Shaping Spray.
“It’s a light, dry spray, so if I spray hair to hold it, and for some reason didn’t like the way it looked, I can brush it out,” he says.
The final touch is a spritz of Curlisto’s Glow & Shine.
Next, it’s off to makeup, where the look is modern — “a smoky-eye kind of vampy,” says makeup artist Aaron Mitchell. “The drama is in the eyes. The colors are a lot of browns on the fair-skinned women, and silvers on the dark-skinned women to create a more three-dimensional look.”
He starts with MAC’s Spring Up, applied to the eyelid and brow bone.
“Then, we’re going to use a Stila eyeshadow in Twig in the corners of the eyes and right under the eye,” Mitchell says. “You just add it at the end of the lid in a v-formation so it creates that smoky eye.”
For darker-skinned models, he turns to a Lancome eyeshadow in Dark Room, a midnight blue-gray color. For highlighting the brow and lid, he opts for Nars eyeshadow in Katmandu.
On the cheeks, a dab of Lilicent creme blush by MAC reveals a natural dewy look. For another hint of drama, Mitchell adds Belightful, an iridescent powder blush by MAC, around the eye and toward the temples, with a dusting down the bridge of the nose.
Lips are lined in MAC’s Subculture. “It’s very natural,” says Mitchell, who then dabs a lip brush in Vaseline to blend it in. “Lip gloss tends to wear off sometimes, while Vaseline looks super shiny and doesn’t move.”
“The looks we create, anyone can create with little or no budget,” he adds with a smile. “You can use any kind of makeup as long as you apply it right. It’s all about the color and the application.”
