If you’re not familiar with this 28 year old whimsical yet highly feminine designer Ashleigh Verrier, you should be. She graduated from Parsons School of Designs three years ago, and Saks Fifth Avenue bought her entire collection, plus a limited production run.
Designer Ashleigh Verrier was one of the designers that brought out the pink lips on the runway for her Spring 2009 collection. Makeup Artist Gregory Alt really focused on the models lips by using bright pink lips and pearl eye shadow…Seedy Pearl from M.A.C. Cosmetics on the lids and a small amount of teal in the center of the lid. I like Verrier’s style and most of her collection and I also really like this look for spring…check it out.
There is a hidden gem located in “The Big Easy”. Celebrity Makeup Artist Brandy Gomez-Duplessis. Brandy may not be a native New Orleanian, but this tough skinned east coaster has always loved makeup. She flirted with makeup, hair, and fashion as a young girl and this was something that kept her occupied being an only child. Because her parents are from Honduras she felt that they didn’t understand her hunger for beauty and fashion She watched old classic Hollywood movies and read fashion magazines (with Vogue being her favorite) and what she loved was seeing women looking beautiful, polished, perfectly combed hair, lots of lashes with red lip stick, and lots of gorgeous gaudy jewelry. Many days Brandy would go to the thrift stores and then walk to Mood Designer Fabrics go home, lock herself in her room to redesign the items she purchase. She would take all of her ideas and sketch figures and faces. Her favorite looks made it to her walls. Her walls were covered in collages of drawings, tear sheets, and articles not knowing that she was creating a personal look book.
