Emily Blunt and Jenn Streicher
"I never wore lipstick and even told her, 'I don’t like lipstick,' "says Blunt, who was introduced to Streicher by her husband (then boyfriend), John Krasinski.
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Emily Blunt and Jenn Streicher
"I have a baby, so I’m lucky if I manage to slap on a bit of tinted moisturizer, but red-carpet makeup is hugely important," says Blunt. "I feel safer when Jenn is with me — we always come up with something fresh and edgy, but she makes sure I look like myself. I don’t want to look like a strange doll. Some people shade you and change the way your face is, but Jenn’s whole thing is, ‘I want you to look like you.’ "
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Emily Blunt and Jenn Streicher
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The British beauty, 31, boasts one of the year’s most daring lip looks — Pepto Bismol pink — spotted at the Edge of Tomorrow premiere in New York City. The reason it caused a stir? The lip color clashed with Blunt's true-red Prada column gown. "It got a lot of attention … there were probably some haters, but in the end, it was a risk that worked," says Streicher.
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Jessica Chastain, Kristofer Buckle and Renato Campora
"I don’t like the red carpet," Chastain confesses to THR. "I find it kind of uncomfortable, but when I work with Kris and Renato, they do their magic and I feel like a different character."
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Jessica Chastain, Kristofer Buckle and Renato Campora
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Ruven Afanador Most recently, the trio, together since 2011, has been working on Chastain's Interstellar press tour, including the American Cinematheque Award, where she wore canary yellow Grecian-draped Givenchy Couture complemented by dewy makeup and hair pulled into a low ponytail. "The dress was elegant and rich, so I wanted to balance it with a more effortless hairstyle," explains Campora.
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Jessica Chastain, Kristofer Buckle and Renato Campora
Buckle, who keeps an assortment of YSL matte lipsticks on hand at all times ("We've used every single one of them"), says he and Campora deserve only partial credit for the rave results: "It really takes a special person to bring a look to life. Jessica's not just a pretty starlet who doesn't have the rest to back it up."
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Robin Fredriksz, Cameron Diaz and Lona Vigi
"They're my go-to glam squad. I'm lucky to have locked them down," says Diaz, who was referred to both women by mutual makeup-artist friend and Stila founder Jeanine Lobell.
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Kerry Washington and Carola Gonzalez
"Carola is obsessive about eyebrows. She needs the mascara wand to fix lashes and brows. I could be getting out of the car for a red carpet, and she’s like, 'Wait!' — fixing an eyebrow. It happened outside the Met Ball," says Washington.
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Robin Fredriksz, Cameron Diaz and Lona Vigi
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Austin Hargrave For the red carpet, Diaz says it begins with the dress, then "these two go away and get inspired and come back with something perfect to complete the look." She adds: "We've lived together, we travel together, we go on vacations together … our days on set are 12 hours minimum, so it's important to spend it with people who are fun. I wouldn't want to be surrounded by any two other women with sharp objects in their hands. Hot, sharp objects coming at my face."
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Kerry Washington and Carola Gonzalez
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Austin Hargrave Says Washington of her first time meeting Carola Gonzalez in 2004: "I was going to the NAACP Awards to support a girlfriend, but I needed my hair and makeup done. Carola was filling in for another makeup artist who was out of town. I looked at myself in the mirror [when Carola was finished] and that was it."
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Gwen Stefani and Danilo
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Ramona Rosales Fifteen years ago, Stefani, who was wearing pink cornrows at the time (she had just finished shooting the video "Ex-Girlfriend" for No Doubt), met rock-star hairstylist Danilo: "It was backstage at a Vivienne Westwood show in New York City — the first fashion show I'd ever been to — and Danilo was doing the hair," Stefani tells THR. "Afterward, I begged to have him flown in for our 'Simple Kind of Life' video. He gave me this really big pink afro and I've been addicted to him ever since."
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Gwen Stefani and Danilo
Danilo has been the man behind the trendsetting 45-year-old singer's most iconic hairstyles, ranging from Smurf blue knots to a platinum pompadour. "In some ways, it gets harder and harder because Danilo and I have done so many looks," says Stefani. "We want to keep evolving and always make things a little bit different."
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Salma Hayek and Robert Vetica
"It was when she first came to America — I had also just moved here from Milan. Salma spoke broken English and lived in a small apartment behind a gelateria on Robertson Boulevard," recalls Vetica. "I would go over to her place to do her hair and she'd do her own makeup."
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Salma Hayek and Robert Vetica
Image Credit: Photo Credit: David Needleman Fast-forward more than 20 years to their current relationship ("It's like a marriage and it really is a love," says Hayek) and countless beauty moments ranging from glamazon updos to sexy Bardot-esque blowouts. "We are always trying to reinvent it," says Hayek of the challenge to keep things fresh and exciting.
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Salma Hayek and Robert Vetica
Hayek says, "A lot of times, people come and do something with your hair and they don't care if they damage it, but the hairdresser that knows in five or 10 years, they're going to have to work with the same hair … they want to make you look good while also keeping your hair in good health."
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Lizzy Caplan and Sabrina Bedrani
"The Emmys. Period. That was a moment," says Caplan of the evening that elevated her from television ingenue to a red-carpet style force.
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Lizzy Caplan and Sabrina Bedrani
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson The Masters of Sex actress, 32, gives major props to her glam squad — stylist Ilaria Urbinati, hairstylist Marcus Francis and makeup artist Sabrina Bedrani — for the transformative black-and-white Donna Karan Atelier gown and equally dramatic beauty: "Everybody was working toward one uniform look instead of trying to make it about any specific element."
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Lizzy Caplan and Sabrina Bedrani
Bedrani says the idea for the makeup and hair stemmed from the simplicity and daring open back of the dress: "We wanted to take it further with slick hair and an extra-smoky eye."
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Lizzy Caplan and Sabrina Bedrani
The best part of working together? Says Bedrani, “The stuff that comes out of her mouth.” Replies Caplan: “The accent. There is nothing chicer than a French woman. American women just can’t hold a candle.” Laughs Bedrani, “I don’t agree, but I will take it.”