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"Designer Faces: Valentino Fall 2013\\nInspired by Dutch Renaissance portraits of young girls, the beauty look at Valentino included luminous skin, minimalist makeup, and ultralong braids.\\nDesigners Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli's fall 2013 collection combined tailored, prim elements with a hint of seduction. To complement the structured shift dresses, embroidered collars, and intricate brocades, makeup artist Pat McGrath kept makeup simple, focusing on flawless skin and soft femininity.\\n\\\"It's inspired by portraiture,\\\" McGrath said of the fresh-faced, low-maintenance look (Vermeer's \\\"Girl With a Pearl Earring\\\" was on the designers' inspiration board). Flawless skin was the key to achieving the pristine, painterly results. McGrath applied foundation and concealer where necessary to create a matte finish. She also gave skin an ethereal glow, applying a touch of blush and lots of highlighter strategically to spots where the light naturally bounces off skin.\\nFor the eyes, McGrath created a \\\"very natural, very beautiful\\\" contoured look. She applied beige eye shadow on the lids, and then added a slightly darker taupe shadow in the creases of the eyes. Highlighter was important here, too: McGrath used a reflective pearly shadow on the inner corners of the eyes before finishing with mascara at the base of the lashes.\\nIn keeping with the rest of the look, McGrath kept lips soft and natural, tapping them with concealer and adding a sheer lip balm.\\nThe makeup was simple; the hair was not. \\\"It feels almost like a painting, like a pure innocence, but with a lot of style,\\\" said hairstylist Guido. He started by prepping hair with [Redken SatinWear 02 Ultimate Blow-Dry Lotion](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/hair/2010/redken-satinwear-blow-dry-lotion) and blowing it out straight with a center part.\\nNext, Guido added long extensions for uniformity, giving every model what he referred to as \\\"rich-girl-length\\\" hair (which fell to about the top of the rib cage). He then combed hair flat against the nape of the neck, applied a bit of __Redken Diamond Oil__ (available in May) to his fingers, and braided hair to the side, securing it with an elastic.\\nGuido perfected the look by taming flyaways with [Redken Fashion Work 12](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/hair/2011/redken-fashion-work-12-hair-spray) for a smooth, shiny finish. Then he added black leather headbands, which he described as \\\"sort of monastic,\\\" toward the front, wrapping them over models' ears. \\\"This is...more pure and sort of innocent, but in its innocence, there's this Dutchness to it, so it's not plain,\\\" he explained.\\nFor a finishing touch, the nails were painted a creamy crimson red ([Essie nail polish in Forever Young](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/makeup/2010/essie-nail-polish-forever-young)), a shade that popped against the blue, white, and black pieces from the collection."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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