Fashion Week Backstage: Richie Rich

                                                    Me and Richie of Richie Rich

In my opinion, one of the best shows to cover during Fashion Week is Richie Rich. The show is always super fun to watch, because you know it's never just an ordinary runway show. There's always an element of surprise, the show is full of theatrics, and the makeup and hair is always original. I also really like Richie of Richie Rich. Like myself, he's a dreamer, and although I still haven't made all my dreams come true, he has, and he makes it known that anyone can make their dreams come true as long as they believe. Also this year Richie opened the show up to everyone! All you had to do was pay $25 dollars and they donated all proceeds to these two charities:  Dosomething.org and CookiesforKidsCancer.org.. Anyway,  let's talk backstage beauty.  The hair was styled by Edward Tricomi and the Warren Tricomi team. After seeing what Edward Tricomi can do to hair, I must pay him a visit.  This year the show had two looks: punk and elegant. This was one of the punk hair styles.

To Get This Look: Part hair into three sections (two sides and middle).  Then separate the middle section into top and bottom.  Clip the top middle section up and let it sit while you start working on the sides.  Part sides of hair into three sections, creating six sections in total. French braid the two face framing sections and secure with a rubber band and let it hand loose.  French braid the remaining sections and twist all ends together to form a bun and secure with pins.  Take the top middle section and tease it making sure to spray lots of hair spray

Finger Waves Elegant

To Get This Look: Part hair to desired side.  Apply a non-flaky gel throughout the hair from root to end and comb through.  Brush hair back away from the face.  Using your fingers, create waves with the side pieces of hair, spraying it with hairspray to make sure the waves stay intact and using long hair clips to hold in place. Create waves until you reach the nape of the next, about 3 inches down from the ears.  Take the loose hair and twist into a flat bun and secure with pins. Do this throughout the entire head.  Keep the hair clips in the hair until the gel dries, then remove.  Spray with a glitter spray to finish the look.

Now let's get to the makeup which was done by Mirabella. The looks were again elegant, and punk.

The elegant look consisted of a smokey eye, a nice bright spring cheek, skin was natural and fresh, and the lips were glossy. Brian (head makeup artist) said this was more the everyday woman.
The punk look consisted of a  black eye, solid black lip, glitter everywhere and clean skin. (Clearly I loved the punk look!)

 The nails were done by China Glaze and were so gorgeous! I'll update you with the colors of these once I get them.

Hey, I even made a new friend! lol

But let's get to the show itself, because it was great. I don't really review the fashions, because I'm more a beauty lover, but man this show was so much fun. There's always interesting peeps that show up, like this guy:

The show started with this dancing ballerina on the runway, then this group, called the Harlem Soul Choir performed. By this point my camera had died, so these pics are from my blackberry. Sorry if they are so grainy.These were my two favorite looks from the show:

And well this is what I meant when I said the show was a little different and full of surprises.lol

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Hugs, 


Milly