I have been so far behind in posting but I definitely did want to get my readers what was promised and put up footage and photos. In this case I felt  pictures speak louder than words! Join me in a look at the backstage fun at ChoCheng @ Bryant Park for his A/W ‘09 showing.

Key Makeup Artist, Lottie, created a look of neutral toned shadows with doll pink cheeks, beautiful skin and lush lashes. It  is one that I have already adopted since the show and used on many different types of girls and I swear it looks good on every single person I try it on, including myself! 

The makeup team was sponsored by Face Atelier.

I hope you enjoy!

I had the pleasure of working with Gretchen Mol this week for the Washington D.C. Premiere of her new movie “An American Affair” out tomorrow, the 27th of February.

Gretchen is a classic beauty that has a look reminiscent of the iconic roles she tends to play. She was Bettie Page in HBO’s “The Notorious Bettie Page”  and you may recognize her past role as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s “Chicago”. In her new movie she plays a character (a mistress possibly?) that has a relation to JFK in the time leading up to his assassination.

Regardless of the complex characters Gretchen tends to play, Gretchen herself is an amazingly down to earth, talented and beautiful actress as well as proud mother.

For her movie premiere I decided to add some waves into Gretchen’s naturally fine and curly hair. I included her input in the whole process and together we decided on a hair and makeup look that would set the right tone for the evening and would work with her classic Jason Wu dress, whom you may know as the designer of Michelle Obama’s Inaugural Ball gown.

I set her hair in medium sized pin curls while doing her makeup and when we released and lightly finger combed through the curls a form started to take place. I kept more of the formed curls in the front, left the hair pretty loose and carefree on the sides and pinned any extra length up in the back, allowing some of the hair to fall naturally out of the pins.

Hair and Makeup by Kathy Aragon for Gretchen Mol / Image courtesy of WireImage

For Gretchen’s makeup we did a soft neutral shadow with a black wing tipped liner. Her face was given a glow with a slight mix of Face Atelier’s Ultra Foundation mixed with a dab of Face Atelier’s Ultra Sheer foundation. I added a little smudged color under the eye, highlighted the cheekbones and opted for a soft pink over the cheek as she didn’t want to look too dramatic for this event. The lips were just a light sheer pink gloss over her natural rosy pigmented lips (lucky Gretchen!).

Hair and Makeup by Kathy Aragon for Gretchen Mol / Image courtesy of WireImage

I had a great time working with Gretchen and I wish her the best of luck with everything she does! I look forward to seeing more of her work and maybe, one day, we will get to see her in more iconic rolls. Let’s talk Marilyn Monroe!

Hello everyone! I have taken to www.twitter.com to live blog about the Oscar looks. Catch me at www.twitter.com/kataragon and join in the fun!

So I’m over the technical difficulties, how about you? My computer decided it did not like my internet connection so everyone had access to it but moi. We finally have that situation squared away and I am back online and running and EXCITED for New York Fashion Week that starts, technically, today!

I will be doing the ChoCheng show again this year with the wonderfully talented artist Lottie S., whom I had the pleasure of working with last year on the same show. This time the show will be at Bryant Park as opposed to the New York Public Library and I couldn’t be happier. It’s always fun to see friends and those you respect so much in the industry, and not to mention the loads of new designs that will swirl by! I will do my best to do some live blogging at my Twitter account: www.twitter.com/kataragon as well as capture videos and keep up to date with this blog as well. So we all move forward together and let the shows begin!

Hey guys, Please bare with me. I had a whole blog post go out today without it’s inserted videos due to YouTube not working properly for me. Please excuse as I’m sure the post doesn’t make such sense without the videos. I’m attempting to reupload the videos again and hopefully will get them out by tonight. Such an ordeal to show you a 2 minute trick with one product! *sigh*. Please hang in there.

xoxo,
Kat