Backstage and Behind the Scenes at 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival

We've been backstage again this week — this time at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Sydney. Set up in conjunction with the store drops of all the looks we saw at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in May, the Festival runs all week and is just as fast and fabulous the second time around.

Maybelline NY's makeup director Nigel Stanislaus created four beauty looks to be used in all the shows, and each one embodies a different woman. "I think it’s appropriate," said Nigel. "We are the embellishment."

The corresponding hair looks were created by Redken hair directors Jon Pulitano and Richard Kavanagh, together with Jodi Nicholson, Lorna Evans, Maria Ardino and Paloma Rose Garcia.

Click through to snoop our backstage gallery, and find out the inspiration behind the Redken looks as the details come to hand.