Lisa Ho Spring Summer 2012 Backstage Beauty Report

"The Lisa Ho woman is definitely younger this season," hair director Kenneth Stoddart told us backstage this morning. Wanting to reflect that in the hairstyle, he braided the hair to reduce volume, glued in some coloured human hair extensions (pink, yellow and purple) and then let models' natural strands fall over the top. The result was a long, poker straight style that was thinner at the ends and had a coloured balayage-type effect. He parted the hair in the centre and used Redken Rootful 06 to "add some discipline" and ensure the hairline was clean and controlled. Then he used Fashion Work 12 before ironing it to protect and add a little weight "so that the hair hangs," he said. Linda Jefferyes (MAC) said the makeup had a "theatrical, almost Ballet Russes" quality to it. She created a dark blue smoky eye which was teamed with a light nude lip. To add "depth of colour" to the eye, she began by rimming the upper and lower lashes with MAC Indigo Eye Pencil, smudging it out and then applying MAC Mabel Eyeshadow over the top. On the nails OPI So Many Clowns was used as a base colour with models tips being painted to match their hair. Models with pink hair had Short Story tips, the purple-haired girls wore Plugged in Plum and the yellow-haired models were tipped with Need Sunglasses.