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" Celebrity makeup artist Troy Surratt, who was mentored by the legendary Kevyn Aucoin and whose handiwork you&amp;#x27;ve seen on Charlize Theron, Kim Kardashian, Adele (to name a few!), just launched his own cosmetics line called Surratt. Trust us&amp;amp;mdash;this is something to be excited about. The line is the culmination of a decade of research, and the result of a longstanding love of Japanese beauty products. The innovative range, which is currently available only at Barneys, features cool things like a refillable eye-liner pen, eyeshadow palettes that you customize yourself, a highly engineered eyelash curler, and special white-and-black lip glosses you can add to other colors to change and intensify them. I chatted with the amazingly friendly Surratt at his Barneys launch event this week to pick his brain about what celebs want when they hit the red carpet, the must-have beauty products he thinks every woman needs, and the biggest beauty mistake he consistently sees women making. (Hint: Put down the tweezers.) On the philosophy behind his new line: &amp;quot;Makeup needs to be portable. All of my girlfriends and clients are getting ready at vanities and then they&amp;#x27;re packing it into a small makeup bag that is then put into their tote or handbag and taken with them all day,&amp;quot; Surratt told us. &amp;quot;There have been many times when I&amp;#x27;ve sent clients out the door for a red carpet, and the lip gloss has been too big to fit into their minaudiere!&amp;quot; On what makes his collection different from the others: &amp;quot;There are no beauty secrets any longer&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;#x27;s all out there on YouTube, so I created a system that allows the consumer to choose for herself. Traditionally, marketing teams have created palettes for women and often you end up using one color all the way down to the pan, and you&amp;#x27;re like, &amp;#x27;What do I do with these other three colors?&amp;#x27; You can just pop it out and replace. Customization isn&amp;#x27;t a totally new thing, but I think I&amp;#x27;ve made it sleeker and sexier and more modern than maybe some other brands.&amp;quot; On the products every woman should have in her makeup arsenal: &amp;quot;Mascara is a great basic and you can look finished and polished and pulled together with just mascara and a lip product. I usually suggest doing a little something on each point of the face. Warming the cheeks a little bit, a little mascara, curling the lashes, and something on the mouth.&amp;quot; On his celeb clients&amp;#x27; most popular makeup request before hitting the red carpet: &amp;quot;Glowy skin! Editorially, skin is becoming more matte, but clients want skin that glows, that has some light reflection and looks vital and alive.&amp;quot; On the biggest mistake he sees women consistently making: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t like rules! But I do see women overtweezing their brows. That&amp;#x27;s the thing when I travel around America that I find the most alarming. Put down the tweezer and step away from the mirror. I think in urban areas like New York and L.A., we&amp;#x27;re sort of making a move toward a more Brooke Shields Pretty Baby brow, but I still see a lot of tweezer mishaps.&amp;quot; Have you ever been guilty of overtweezing? Does the idea of portable palettes that let you play makeup pro sound intriguing? Photos: Barneys"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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