MAC and Aveda at Tome | Backstage Beauty

MAC and Aveda at Tome | Backstage Beauty

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The unique beauty of women of different ages, sizes and ethnicities was on display during Tome's Spring 2017 show. Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin's fifth collection bore their trademark classic tailoring with sexy structures exhibited on a diverse cast of models. Again, the duo relied heavily on a black and white palette, played up with harlequin diamonds and stripes, but their designs also thrived in green, red and tan.

Photos by Masha Maltsava

The makeup was inspired by a Dinka (a tribe in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan) ceremonial paint. Lead M*A*C artist Diane Kendal let the models' individual beauty shine through but added feathery brushstrokes along the sides of the eyes.

Aveda artists followed the tendencies of each woman's hair, accentuating natural waves, curls and texture with select products.

Antoinette Beenders, lead hair stylist for Aveda, told Nordstrom national beauty director, Marynell Maddox, that Aveda was working with models in very individual ways. She took the natural beauty of each persons hair and enhanced it.

For instance, with one model that had a natural wave, Antoinette used a leave in conditioner and a new (out in a few weeks) split-end repair product plus a big barrel curling iron to make that wave more pronounced. She ran the iron through the hair to create a effortless, individual waves.

The results, Antoinette said, were more "beachy" than "prom-like." The Aveda team created 37 different looks for the models, each one customized to the individual.

1. M*A*C lead artist Diane Kendal used Chroma Cake in white with a Duo Fiber fan brush (#184) to create the airy strokes that framed the models' gazes.

4. Next she curled the lashes leaving them mostly natural.

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