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Lincoln Center, NYC Venexiana's red carpet stunners require elaborate coiffeurs …and Philip Pelusi using Tela Beauty Organics -wonderfully aromatic products-achieved the braided hair equivalent of bejeweled  crowns atop the models. Polished tresses, transformed into Rapunzel like long braids…. everyone was filming something... Tela Beauty Organics-Hair Gloss, Composer and Encore-styling creme-for shine and hold-$32/each Philip Pelusi P2 Define hairspray …did just that Pinned around the head-and two circular buns pinned in the back…rolled inwards… Rhinestone jewel pins attached…finished the look... The makeup table belongs to ALCONE …the insider's place for all those beauty cult brands…had their team applying the makeup for the show. Dark burgundy lips- long fluttery eyelashes-(false), grey smoky lids above and burgundy shadow underneath-with highlighter under and above softened, barely there eyebrows---delivering class...

PARIAN SPIRIT®, KOH GEN DO, NAKED COSMETICS, STILA, NU SKIN GALVANIC SPA SYSTEM II The Metropolitan Pavilion, West 18th Chelsea NYC Words, Images Judith Ecochard Also Images courtesy of respective companies. There was a significant push to go “Green” by many cosmetics companies at the 4th annual The Makeup Trade Show. IE. We like the mindset of Levon Parian …the founder of Parian Spirit., a non-toxic product for makeup brush cleaning. That REALLY works- dissolving adhesives and serious glunk used by special effects types--- without acetone or dry cleaning fluids . (YIKES). A former biochemist/photographer, Parian and his wife-a makeup toiler at Universal Movie Studios… conjured up several cleaning, disinfecting and conditioning liquid solutions for the tools of the trade that get splattered with makeup----including clothes, wigs, false eyelashes, false facial hair, and brushes. Parian demoed the aptly named Parian Spirit for us---housed in a portable cannister that traps the makeup an...