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What It’s Like to Get Ready with Kristen Stewart?
“Sultry, edgy, lash-y,” makeup artist Jillian Dempsey says, when we asked her to describe the look she created for Kristen Stewart at the New York premiere of Stewart’s new movie, Camp X-Ray. “The look is pretty lash-y, don’t you think? Her eyes are so expressive—I definitely wanted to play them up.” And play them up, she did. Stewart’s final eye makeup look was an ethereal combination of inky black eyeliner, an iridescent smoky eye, and a full, lush fringe—a smoky eye from our haziest daydreams.
We sent photographer Hadar Pitchon behind the scenes to capture the magic as it was happening, and chatted with Dempsey to find out what it’s really like to get ready with Stewart for a big event. Hint: Don’t expect any red lipstick.
“I walked into the room, and [Stewart] was just finishing getting a haircut,” Dempsey reveals. “Her cut is so incredible—it had that perfect David Bowie-esque, androgynous thing going on.” The short, swingy cut by hairstylist Giannandrea inspired Dempsey to focus on one of Stewart’s defining features: her eyes. “When I originally went into the job, I thought I would be doing some sort of ‘60s look on her,” Dempsey reveals. “That was before I saw the cut, so it’s always a good lesson to learn that, as a makeup artist, you can never really arrive with a pre-conceived notion of what you want to do.”
Drawing her color palette from the mint detailing in Stewart’s beaded J. Mendel dress, Dempsey used Chanel’s Quadra Eye Shadow ($59) in Fascination to create a shimmery, dreamy, ocean-esque eye makeup look. “In the Fascination quad, there’s this color that I use—it looks a little more mint, and I wanted it to match the mint color in her beaded dress, but then it actually projects a little more on the blue side,” Dempsey says. “I went in the inner corner of her eyes in a sideways V, along the lash line, and under the lash line. I followed with a lot of the deeper tone in that quad—it’s like a charcoal black—on her top lid to give it a more punk rock definition. Then, as my last finishing move, I put that aquamarine color on top of it again.”
To add even more definition, Dempsey reached for the Khôl Eyeliner ($20) from her own eponymous makeup line to trace along Stewart’s lid. “I tightlined below her lashes, then drew it in above her lashes in small strokes,” she says.
Since the focus of this look was Stewart’s eyes, Dempsey upped the oomph factor with a couple of well-placed individual lashes on the outer corner of her lash line. But first, she applied a coat of Chanel’s Le Volume de Chanel Mascara ($30) in Noir. “The best thing with mascara is that you can take it north, south, east, or west, if you want to,” she says. “For [Stewart’s] bottom lashes, I wanted them to look a little plumper without looking twiggy, so I just used the very tip of the mascara wand and went back and forth to make them fuller.”
As for her skin, it was all about keeping things natural and shine-free. “I wanted her skin to look as matte as possible for tonight—I didn’t want to load it up,” Dempsey tells us. To achieve that perfect balance, she reached for Chanel’s Lumière Long-Wear Flawless Fluid Sunscreen Makeup SPF 15 ($57) in 40 Beige, which she mixed with a little moisturizer for sheer, barely-there coverage. When it comes to application tricks, Dempsey says less is more: “If you don’t need to wear a lot of foundation, don’t—just buff it out with a sponge or brush, then feather it out.”
To add just a bit of contour, Dempsey used a matte sculpting powder and applied it in the hollows of Stewart’s cheeks with a fan brush. When we asked her for at-home contouring tips, she was more than happy to share a tried-and-true trick. “Suck in your cheeks for the ‘fish’ look,” she says. “It looks really stupid and it seems like everyone uses this technique, but it does help to guide your hand in the exact area you want to place your brush and blend it out. It’s a helpful start.”
Because the main focus of the look was Stewart’s smoldering gaze, Dempsey reached for a sheer, subtle nude lipstick to finish things off—namely, Chanel’s Limited Edition Rouge Allure Luminous Intense Lip Colour ($35) in Précieuse, which Dempsey describes as “a light nude with a tiny bit of iridescence”. “I hope it’s still there,” she wonders out loud. “I always start [Stewart] off with a lip, but she doesn’t really ever carry a clutch, so you never know!”
When it comes to Stewart’s involvement in her makeup process, Dempsey says she’s—no surprise here—super laid-back. “I feel like we collaborate really easily,” Dempsey says. “Sometimes she’ll show me images or looks she likes, but she isn’t a dictator. She’s open and she likes to play and have fun. She never shuts off anyone’s ideas.”
The one thing Stewart isn’t exactly prone to, however? “She has to really be in the mood for a red lip,” Dempsey laughs. “I have to forewarn her if I’m thinking of doing one—it’s too much maintenance and a big commitment for the evening.” We see the logic in that, but we also can’t think of a better person than Stewart to pull off a lived-in, smudged, IDGAF lipstick look on a red carpet—something to look forward to in the future, perhaps?
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Kristen Interviews from the 'Camp X-Ray' NYFF Screening
The Hollywood Reporter:
Kristen Stewart came to play a Guantanamo Bay prison guard, who forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees, in Camp X-Ray because she was mostly intrigued by the character's moral dilemma.
"I really like the idea of playing a girl who we all might know from high school, who is shaped by whatever odd but incredibly normal childhood she may have had, and is somebody who wants to push a little bit harder and wants to figure out what the right thing to do is," Stewart told The Hollywood Reporter at the film's New York City premiere at the Crosby Street Hotel on Monday night. "[She] wants to feel dignified and honorable, and then finds that the easy answer actually doesn't satisfy any of that."
While Gitmo has been a highly controversial military prison since 2002, the film's cast and writer-director Peter Sattler, who makes his feature debut with the title, don't want to focus on the issues.
"This film is not about politics — this is about relationships, this is about humanity," said Payman Maadi, who plays the detainee Ali. "I definitely have my opinion. I think this film is a film that makes people think about serious issues that are happening now, not only politically but human issues. Don't think that we are different and cannot make any connection with each other. Let's try to hear each other."
Stewart, wearing J. Mendel, agreed on the film's stance. "To see somebody comforted by a human relationship, it's nice, it's alleviating, it feels good," she said. "You see somebody who would love to just be good, just would do anything to just be good, and then finds out that it's not so simple, and so seeks refuge and solace and human commonality, which is what we all do every day."
The quotidian activities of Gitmo fascinated Sattler, who noted that Wikileaks' access to the prison's operating manual was an invaluable resource. While Sattler stressed the apolitical and objective nature of the film, he does hope it can shed light on the situation.
"When we started making the film, people would say, ‘Oh is Gitmo still open?' I was like, ‘Yes, still there. Twelve years and kicking. It's still open," said Sattler. "It doesn't presume to give you the answer to Guantanamo Bay, but it does raise a question. We wanted to do it in an observational way to say, ‘Look, when I look at Gitmo, it looks like this to me, and I want to show you some weird little sides of it that I don't think anyone has seen before,' and let the audience make their own conclusion." "It's a reminder, absolutely," added Stewart. "I think Guantanamo is an immovable object. Nobody really knows what to do with it ... This depicts a really objective view of what we learned about this place. It's not offering any answers. It's definitely asking questions. But I think it's important to do movies about topical, relevant things. We're not changing anything. We're not figuring out how to deal with the world's problems, but we're reminding people that this one still exists."
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'Roundtable' Interview - Interview 'table-ronde'
• Nylon: Though this certainly isn't Stewart's first independent film, it definitely differs from previous Hollywood blockbuster roles she's had—and to get into the mindset of Amy Cole, she went all out, even writing poetry from her character's perspective. Though she's been writing poetry (or "BS" as she calls it) since middle school, this is the first time Stewart has expressly used poetry to assist with her acting. "Pointedly for this, I did write a couple things that were so spot on that I just had to share them with Pete, and it helped and felt good to share them," she says. "But other than that, I definitely have [poetry] as a serious outlet, so if something seriously affects me, then it finds its way into stuff that I write." And hopefully we'll be able to get a glimpse at just what goes on in the actresses's head—she says that she would like to eventually publish a book of her writing.
Though the movie is heavy in subject its matter and themes, Stewart sees it as something that everyone can relate to. "I love the movie because it's so reflective of somebody that I could have gone to high school with, somebody that just wants to take away the thought and just do the right thing," she says. "That's not so cut and dry." Either way, despite the unique scenario that the film places the her in, Pvt. Amy Cole is just a girl trying her best in a world where moral ambiguity runs rampant. But thanks to her dedication to the character and exploration of poetry, Kristen Stewart has got her all figured out, inner turmoil included.
• Guest of a guest: The Twilight sensation kicked off her Louboutins and made her way down the no-camera carpet area to discuss her experience in taking up this role. A very down to earth (and barefoot) Stewart gushed to about her poetry which was incorporated into the script and development of her character. "I mean I've been writing BS since I was in middle school when they tell you to start writing stuff. But specifically for this film I did write a couple things that were just so spot on, I had to share it with Pete. It kind of helped and felt good to share. I definitely have poetry as a serious outlet so if something really affects me it finds its way into stuff that I write."
She continued on, saying that she would even consider publishing a book of her poetry. "I am definitely going to do something with it at some point."
Despite the difference in this serious character compared to her previous roles, Stewart's performance in the film has been acclaimed by critics as "transfixing". The actress says it changed her as a person. "I think every step towards finishing any project, not even specific to doing movies, but any creative venture that takes up so much of you for so long is going to shape you and make you who you are at the other end."
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