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"  Photos: Barneys New York Celebrity makeup artist Troy Surratt has some heavyweight stamps of approval. Kevyn Aucoin considered him to be a prot\u00E9g\u00E9, the masterminds behind Tarte worked with him to help launch their line, and Maybelline New York tapped him as a brand ambassador. Then, there are the A-listers he&amp;#039;s made up, including Adele, Adriana Lima, and Charlize Theron. But Hollywood hasn&amp;#039;t gotten to his head: The Kansas native is as humble as can be\u2014even though he currently has a major reason to pop some bubbly. As of last Friday, he can add this to his list of accomplishments: Barneys New York is the premiere retailer to offer his debut cosmetics brand, dubbed Surratt. The launch of Surratt is part of Barneys&amp;#039; initiative to revamp its beauty floors on Madison Avenue in NYC and Beverly Hills in L.A. In addition to offering Surratt, NYC gained a blow-dry bar (read our exclusive interview with the man behind the hair salon here), and both spaces have a cleaner, more modern aesthetic. Surratt was inspired by the makeup maven&amp;#039;s fascination with Japanese beauty products, and it&amp;#039;s even entirely produced overseas in his muse country. But perhaps the most noteworthy part of his collection is how versatile it is. Customizable blush and eye-shadow palettes pop in and out of sleek compacts, lip glosses can be mixed with white or black hues to soften or intensify the color, and liquid eyeliner wands contain replaceable ink. We chatted up the beauty pro this morning at a Barneys breakfast for beauty editors to find out how to use his multi-functional products, why he loves Japanese goods, and how Adele helped develop his eyeliner. \u2028How long have you been working on this line? I would say it&amp;#039;s a culmination of research that I&amp;#039;ve been doing for the last decade... So just a little bit of time? [Laughs] Yeah, just a little bit of time. My preoccupation with Japanese beauty projects started about 11 years ago. I always knew I wanted to create my own beauty collection. Four years ago, I set forth to figure out the very elusive Japanese cosmetics industry\u2014who was producing, manufacturing, and making my favorite things. My sole focus for the last year and a half has been creating the line. Why Japan? I knew that there was a need for innovative, beautiful products and textures because when I would go on buying trips to Japan, I would bring back Japanese beauty products. Clients would ask me, &amp;quot;Where can I get this?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;How do I get this?&amp;quot; So, I knew there were gaps in the market that I could try to fill with my brand. Did any of your celebrity clients inspire parts of your beauty range? When I was developing my Autographique liquid liner pen and testing prototypes, I was also doing all the press [makeup] for Adele for her album 21. So, I got to try a bunch of black liquid liner pens on her throughout that process. [The eyeliner] is the culmination of a lot of research and development. I [made] a product that quickly and effectively creates a really sharp cat eye.  So let&amp;#039;s talk about this magical eyeliner... I am not a big fan of that magic-marker approach to liquid eyeliner. And I have always used these Japanese pens, so I wanted to bring that to market in the States. The brush is nylon and inspired by Japanese calligraphy brushes. It&amp;#039;s an inky-black, inspired by Sumi ink in Japan, the Japanese calligraphy ink. And it&amp;#039;s replaceable. You put the cartridge into the pen, and it fills into the brush. You can do 200 to 400 eyes per pen, so it doesn&amp;#039;t need to be replaced often. I&amp;#039;m really proud of that product. We love your customizable eye shadow and blush palettes. What went into the idea behind this? The consumer is savvier about beauty than ever. While customization isn&amp;#039;t completely new, I tried to make it really slick, sexy, and modern, and eliminate all of the surrounding wasted space. So, the geometric color tiles fit together in a mosaic-like approach. While I want to speak to trend, I want [the consumer] to be able to make her own choices and not be dictated to. If there&amp;#039;s one color you love particularly, you can just pop it out and replace it.  Tell us about those customizable lip glosses, as well. What a cool concept! We have two lip glosses. One is called Teinte and the other is Tone. [Teinte] is white, so it will take down any color. So, if you put a color on your mouth and you feel like, &amp;quot;Whoa, that&amp;#039;s a little bright for me today,&amp;quot; you can just put a little white on top of it and just [smack] your lips together, and it will tint it down to more of a pastel version of itself. And Tone is the same. If you feel like you need some added depth, or want to intensify a color you&amp;#039;re wearing and take it into evening, you can put Tone over it, which is a shadowy, black color. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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