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"Designer Faces: The Hair and Makeup Look at the Spring 2011 Vera Wang Show\\nSky-high hair and shimmery pink makeup helped bring the designer&amp;#39;s vision of &amp;quot;romantic, east-meets-west sensuality&amp;quot; to life.\\nWang was inspired by *In the Mood for Love*, a movie set in Hong Kong in the 1960s that tells the story of two people who fall in love under than less than perfect circumstances. To channel the mix of Asian culture and '60s style, she teamed up with makeup artist Lucia Pieroni and hairstylist Jimmy Paul to create the look for the collection.\\nPieroni prepped the models' faces with foundation and a bit of pressed powder. \\\"The skin is supposed to be like porcelain\u2014not in terms of the color, but rather its texture. We wanted it to be very matte and even without being too powdery,\\\" she explained.\\nA single eye-shadow palette\u2014[Cl\u00E9 de Peau Beaut\u00E9 Eye Color Quad in 20](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/makeup/2011/cle-de-peau-eye-color-quad-20)\u2014was used on both the eyes and cheeks. On the lids, Pieroni brushed on an opaque pearly pink and applied it with a damp shadow brush to give the color more depth. She began by dotting it in the middle of the lid and then blending it out, so most of the iridescent shade stayed in the center.\\nAnother shade in the palette was a shimmery silver-pink shadow, which Pieroni used as a highlighter, dusting it under the brow bones and down the cheekbones in a C-shape for a \\\"candle lit\\\" glow. For models with darker skin she mixed in a bit of the gray and blue shadows, also from the quad, to keep it from looking garish.\\nPieroni skipped the mascara to create the illusion of almond-shaped eyes on all the models, referencing the collection's Asian influence. \\\"Without mascara, that really nice shape is allowed to show through, and it appears flat and slightly Egyptian-like.\\\" To define the brows, she brushed on powder that was just a touch darker than each models' natural color.\\nThe lips? They were matted down with a touch of powder and then given a wash of nude lipstick. Pieroni used [Cl\u00E9 de Peau Beaut\u00E9 Extra Rich Lipstick in T4.](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/makeup/2011/cle-de-peau-lipstick-t4)\\nPaul looked to the bouffants of the era and teased the models' hair into voluminous clouds on top of their heads. \\\"Women used to wear their hair big in the 60s,\\\" he explained, \\\"So we took that, but are also making it a bit geisha-like to channel the Asian influence as well.\\\"\\nPaul started by dousing the hair with [Bumble and Bumble Surf Spray.](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/hair/2010/bumble-bumble-surf-spray) \\\"A lot of people are afraid to use a lot of stuff in the hair, but not me\u2014I sprayed this on the hair until it was damp,\\\" he said. Paul then rough-dried the hair using a blow-dryer and his fingers, giving the hair a thickness that would allow him to create the volume and matte texture he wanted.\\nFor models with shorter hair, Paul had to add extensions\u2014and lots of them.\\nUsing a fine-toothed, rattail comb, Paul separated the hair into one-inch sections and began teasing vigorously at the root and making his way toward the ends. Each section was then lightly misted with [Bumble and Bumble Does It All Styling Spray.](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/hair/2010/bumble-bumble-does-it-all-spray)\\nNext, the hair was parted on the side using a boar and nylon-bristle brush to flatten it in front\u2014so just a few loose and pieces fell slightly over the forehead. Then using the same brush, he smoothed over the top layer of hair to create a bubble shape on top of the head.\\nTo give the hair a boost and finish the look, Paul twisted the hair back into an updo. The result was two styles\u2014the back was either put into a French twist to push the hair up high, or it was rolled and tucked under into a faux-bob so that the hair was wider than it was tall.\\nThe final product: Swept-up hair that mimicked the drapery of the fabrics, and soft, shimmery makeup that softened the boy-meets-girl silhouettes."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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