Runway the "Real" Way: BCBG Fall 2012

1. Nice & Natural

"She's a very natural girl. Healthy and with beautiful skin," explained Maybelline makeup artist Charlotte Willer. Not blessed with a naturally luminous complexion? Fudge it like Willer with "foundation that doesn't show." She uses Maybelline Fit Me! and says application should be "as if it's a facial cream. Use your fingers." Keep everything else simple with a cream blush, colorless Maybelline Baby Lips, and no mascara.

2. Eye Spy

It's the eyeliner that really gels with the runway clothes. "The collection is very fluid, with lots of color-blocking, so we wanted something really graphic," said Willer. Using a brush and a pot of black eyeliner, she pulled a line all the way from the inner-corner of the eye to the middle of the lash line, stopped, and finished with a strong line to the outer-corner. Finish it with "groomed brows that are present but not overly so."

3. Sexy Engineering

"The collection is inspired by Bauhaus architecture—there's constructed color-blocking, and it feels very engineered, but there's chiffon and little bits of fur thrown in. A lot of the dresses fall below the knee, which feels very 1940s," said Bumble and bumble Editorial Stylist Neil Moodie. The hair was designed to feel romantic, in that "post-sex, tousled" kind of way. Before drying, Moodie applied Bumble and bumble's prep spray and thickening hairspray. "It's meant to look like it doesn't have a lot of product in," explained Moodie, who only used those two picks plus a tiny bit of Does It All spray to nix flyaways.

4. Faux Bang

After drying, Moodie made a deep side-part and tied hair back in a low ponytail at the nape of the neck, leaving 1.5 inches from the hairline and back out. He lightly pulled this section across the forehead and over the eye to mimic bangs. The strands were then attached to the pony using bobby pins. "It's a very sexy, new way to do a ponytail. The faux bang is meant to feel quite light and airy, and it's definitely okay if you see a bit of elastic after attaching it the base of the ponytail."

5. Pretty Pink

The models' tips and toes were painted with a single coat of OPI Passion, which backstage manicurists described as being "a nice soft pink that's a little romantic." Both color and shape were designed to continue on the natural look: Nails were kept short and filed to the girl's individual shape.