Absolutely loving the Kérastase Fibre Architecte which is a dual serum that seals and repairs very damaged lengths and split ends (like mine, ha!). Just what the doctor ordered for my hair today, it got that silkiness back to my hair. I applied on toweled dried hair and blow dried straight. It’s a yes!

Kérastase Fibre Architecte hair serum

Kérastase Backstage New York Fashion Week Fall 2012.

3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2012

Theyskens’ Theory Fall 2012

The Row Fall 2012

Kérastase Paris and Odile Gilbert created the hairstyles today backstage at Jason Wu Spring 2012 fashion show. The Overall look: Grace Kelly Chic Meets ’90-Punk.

Jason Wu Spring 2012 hair by Kérastase Paris and Odile Gilbert

How To:

Use Kérastase Lotion Densitive to add thickness and texture to hair

Apply Kérastase Fibre Architecte (new and coming out end of October 2011) to seal any split/damaged ends and add a styling memory element to the hair

Add Kérastase Mousse Volumeactive for volume and texture

Twist Hair into different pieces, interweaving with black feathers. Hair is secured by bobby pins

Finish with Kérastase Double Force Hair Spray

Celebrity hairstylist Giannandrea worked with Dianna Agron at the Los Angeles premiere of GLEE : The 3D Concert Movie on Saturday, August 6th. Beauty Inspiration: ”My inspiration for Dianna for the Glee premiere was ‘British rocker/sexy/messy.’”

How to get Dianna Argon’s hairstyle:

“I started with wet hair and razor cut her bob into a more playful ‘Shab.’ This is what I call this hair cut! This cut is a progression of the bob but it has more life and does much more when you style it. Then I added Kerastase Volume Active Mousse to the whole head and roots. I blow dried the hair – just air, no brushing – until the hair was completely dry. I then brushed it with a large round Mason Pearson brush, I use a brush just for the bangs and blow it straight. The other part of the head was just scrunched and bent with my hands. I then used Klorane Dry Shampoo Spray on the whole roots and top of the head, and back brushed the top part of the head. Finally, I set hair into place with L’Oreal Elnett Hair Spray.”

We got the word that Richard Ward Hair & Metrospa, a L’Oréal Professional salon that uses Kérastase in the hair spa area, has been Kate Middleton’s favorite salon for 8 years. It was here where the magic happened and her half up/half down style was created. Kate’s bridal look, which was styled by James Pryce, with support by Richard Ward, is dubbed the “Demi Chignon” – an up-do style which combines a classic bridal look with a regal, couture finish.

The focus of this style was Kate Middleton’s gorgeous tiara, which was set just back from the hairline. Hair was swept away from Kate’s face while height was created at the crown area. Romantic waves were positioned back from her shoulders to allow the detail of her wedding gown to be shown.

Most importantly, her gorgeous chestnut hair continued to look shiny due to her Kérastase Rituals, an in salon treatment range that can do anything from tame hair and define curls to add volume and strength. For everyday looks and to prep for the big day, Kate continues to use Kérastase shampoo and conditioner for dry hair.

Olivia Wilde and Julianne Moore sported thanks to Terry Mullet for Kérastase & Giannandrea for Kératase using none other but Kérastase products. The products were used to create beautiful looks and are all available at www.kerastase-usa.com.

Oliva Wilde. Overall Look: chic French Girl look.

How to:

Began by applying Kérastase Volumactive Mousse & Care Kérastase Volumactive to wet hair prior to blowdrying to give texture and volume.

From there, Terry blow dried her hair with his hands, only using a round brush at the ends once almost dried to give the hair a clean, healthy, just washed type of look

Once the hair was dry, he finished with Kérastase Oléo-Relax Serum on the ends and a veil of Kérastase Double Force Hair Spray for hold.

Julianna Moore. Overall Look: “modern, romantic” look.

How to:

Began by applying Kérastase Volumactive Mousse & Kérastase Nectar Thermique to her wet hair

This created volume and texture while protecting the hair from the heat of the blow-dryer

He then parted her hair down the middle to create a modern aesthetic

Following, he twisted the hair to the side and created a pony/tail twist style

He finished with Kérastase Elixir Ultime to create a healthy, finish that had a touchable, healthy shine

Marta Walsh has just found out that celebrated hair stylist Giannandrea from The Wall Group will be exclusively using Kérastase to get Golden Globes Best Actress nominee and presenter, Julianne Moore, red-carpet ready for Sunday’s awards!

Hair: GIANNANDREA

Recognized as one of the industry’s most respected hairstylists, Giannandrea has worked with top photographers Steven Meisel, Patrick Demarchelier, Terry Richardson, and Mark Seliger. His impressive celebrity clients include Julianne Moore, Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore, Eva Mendes, and Drew Barrymore.

A native of Italy, Giannandrea was inspired by the culture of high fashion and art that surrounded his childhood. He began styling hair at the tender age of 14 and by 16 began freelancing and styling local Italian singers in Bologna. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Milan, where he worked the backstage of fashion shows under Orlando Pita. He further refined his craft when he moved to New York and worked under Garren for six years.

Giannandrea’s versatility and artistic skills have distinguished him as a leading hair talent in New York and Los Angeles.

Marta Walsh has just found out that Terry Millet from The Magnet Agency will be exclusively using Kérastase to get Golden Globes presenter, Olivia Wilde, red-carpet ready for Sunday’s 2011 Golden Globe Awards.

It’s been a long but fun beautiful year here at Talking Makeup. I’ve tried many beauty products and fell in love 100 plus times. Here is the list of my favorite hair products for 2009! I really hope you all enjoy “The List” and love them as much as I do:)

Marta Walsh is having a great hair day thanks to Avon Advanced Techniques Dry Ends Serum:)

Shampoo & Conditioner

For Blonde Hair:

1. Pantene highlighting expressions
2. John Frieda Collection sheer blonde
3. Redken Blonde Glam

Frizzy hair, dry hair, color treated hair:

1. Pantene Smooth Vitality
2. Pureology supersmooth and Pureology hydrate
3. Living proof no frizz
4. Paul Labrecque Repair
5. Moroccanoil moisture repair
6. L’Oreal Professionnel Paris vitamino color
7. Pantene Pro V Restoratives Frizz Control
8. L’Oreal EverPure Moisture
9. Leonor Greyl nourishing shampoo for long and dry hair

Dry Shampoo
Oscar Blandi pronto

Thin hair in need for volume:
Redken Body Full

Healthy scalp and normal hair:
John Frieda Collection root awakening

Deep Hair Conditioner and Hair Mask

1. Kiehl’s Sunflower Color Preserving Deep Recovery Pak
2. Pantene Pro V Restoratives Time Renewal Replenishing Mask
3.  L’Oreal Professionnel Paris vitamino color Masque-Gelee
4. Moroccanoil Intense Hydrating Mask
5. Leonor Greyl Paris softening mask for frizzy hair

Marta Walsh is experiencing great hair day today thanks to L’Oréal Professionnel Série Expert Vitamino Color Shampoo and Conditioner:)

Hair Styling Products

Blow Drying and Heat Protectors

1. Redken hot sets 22 thermal setting mist (total classic, been used over and over backstage at the tens during New York Fashion Week)
2. Living proof straight making styling cream (keeps my hair super straight and tamed for days)
3. Advanced Techniques Dry End Serum by Avon (the BEST hair serum because it never seems to weight down my hair not matter how much I apply. Quite magical!)
4. John Frieda Frizz-Ease Hair Serum Thermal Protection (A classic. The John Frieda hair serum revolutionized my beauty life forever!)
5. Moroccanoil Hydrating Styling Cream (quenches dry hair after shower and smell delicious!)
6. Kerastase Nutritive oleo-relax (tames very rebellious hair in an instant)
7. Redken satin wear 02 ultimate blow-drying lotion (makes frizzy hair give up!)
8. Leonor Greyl Eclat Natural styling cream for dry hair
9. Paul Labrecque Straight Style anti frizz smoothing balm

Curling Volume and Root Lifting

1. Redken aerate 08 bodifying cream-mousse (was the “it” hair stying choice for hair stylists backstage at many of the shows during New Fashion Week Spring 2010. This isn’t your grandmother’s mousse! It is far more superior and does all: gives you volume, tames frizz, feels like a cream but has great hold. Magic!)
2. John Frieda Luxurious Volume Bountiful Body Mousse (great for all your root lifting and updos)
3. John Frieda Frizz-Ease Take Charge Style-Managing Mousse
4.  Redken Body Full instant bodyfier
5. ShearForce by Allen Edwards Thickening Spray Mist (created my the man who invented The Farrah for Farrah Fawcett you know it’s good!)

Finishing Hair Products

Shine
1. Redken Real Control Mineral Elixir
2. Moroccanoil Glimmer Shine Spray
3. Redken Blonde Glam crystal flash
4. Aveda Light Elements smoothing fluid
5. Ojon Hair Revitalizing Mist

Hairspray

1. Bumble and Bumble Bb Classic Hairspay laque
2. Redken quick dry 18
3. L’Oreal Studio Fix Ultimate Spray Finishing Hairspray Extreme Hold

Hair Styling Tools

Blow Dryer
1875W SuperSolano Professional Hairdryer

Styling Iron
1. FHI Heat Platform SE
2. Go styling iron by FHI Heat

Bree Turner is an actress who began her journey in Hollywood as a professional dancer. Bree was a background dancer in such hit films as The Big Lebowski (1998), She’s All That (1999) and Mike Myers’ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Bree’s love for performing and being on stage makes acting a natural transition. Most recently, Bree Turner can be seen opposite Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in The Ugly Truth.

I caught up with Bree Turner via telephone from Los Angeles early in the morning few months ago, to talk about her beginnings in Hollywood, her role film The Ugly Truth opposite Katherine Heigl, future career plans and even some beauty secrets!

Actress Bree Turner

Marta Walsh: How did you decide on a career in acting, and what were some of your first breaks as an actress?
Bree Turner: I started out as a dancer which got me on stage. I was pretty shy as a kid so my mom decided to enroll me in a dance class, and I fell in love with being on stage and performing. I danced all through my teens and early 20’s. Dancing brought me down to Los Angeles with a dance scholarship in UCLA. I heard that you can actually make money as dancer, so I got a dance agent and began working in commercials, music videos, and the Grammys. I did that for about 6 years. I then decided to pursue acting. I was so in love with being on set and movie making. I loved movies since I was a baby. It was the only thing that would calm me down. I was very colicky as a child so my mom would take me to watch movies. Grease was the movie that would stop me from crying. Dancing, performing, and being on stage is all I’ve done forever, it’s all I really know.

MW: Tell us about your dancing roles in The Big Lebowski (1999) and Mike Myers’ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged ME (1999)?
BT: The Big Lebowski was very cool, and I love that I’m in it, it’s one of my favorite movies. But the experience was torture because as one of the bowling pin girls on the set I had to wear a 2 and half foot high bowling pin head dress made out of heavy wood. It had to be secured on our heads. It would squeeze our brains it was so tight. The other dancers with me on the set and I couldn’t take the head dresses off because they were such pain to put back on. By the end of the shoot no one was talking to each other, we just sat there with our heads between our legs. Our costume weighted about 50 pounds, we couldn’t’t even go to the bathroom. It was hysterical and not glamorous at all. Being on Austin Powers film was the opposite experience. We were shooting in a secret mansion in Malibu, 76 degrees outside, blue skies, and we just hang out all day. Only my arm with a tennis racket ended up on screen and you can’t even see me. So sad!

MW: How would you describe your character in The Ugly Truth film with Katherine Heigl?
BT: I play Joy, Katherine Heigl’s best friend and co-worker. Katherine Heigl’s character in The Ugly Truth, Abby Richter, is a Type A, very professional, workaholic, and uptight with her love life. She even schedules her dates. She meets Gerard Butler, Mike Alexander, who is a bad boy. I’m the voice of reason for her, I push her when she needs to get out of her comfort zone. I’m there for her when she is complaining. It is a sparkly and fun romantic comedy that is actually honest and not manipulative. The relationships in the film are not forced. It was an easy relationship for me on screen and it was therefore super fun. It was a sweet bubbly role and I had good time doing it!

MW: What was it like working with Katherine Heigl and everyone on the set?
BT: It couldn’t be an easier experience. It was effortless. It truly didn’t feel like we were working

MW: Which other Hollywood actors/actresses inspire you with your own acting?
BT: Katharine Hepburn was phenomenal, I would have loved to work with her. She was such a force, competing with all the boys of her time. She was quick and witty with her on screen persona. Philadelphia Story (1940) is one of my all time favorite romantic comedies. Diane Keaton and Debra Winger are delightful and deliciously humane on film and unexpected with their choices. Kate Winslet is timeless and a chameleon, she can play any age and any era. I deeply respect her talent. Kate Hudson is the cutest and makes me laugh.

MW: If you ever won an Oscar, who would be some of the people you would thank?
BT: My aunt Shelly who has been with me since day one of my career, she is a great support for me. My family, they never pressured me to get a ‘real job’ when times I wasn’t’t working. They are my support system since I was little girl. And my husband.

MW: What is next for Bree Turner?
BT: I’m in a middle of shooting a Cinfu movie. I always wanted to do an action film. My dream scene is a slow motion shot of me with a huge ridicules gun and a bikini walking towards the camera. Who doesn’t want that slow motion moment of them as a bad ass?

MW: Was it tough being photographed for Maxim?
BT: It was challenging at first but then I’ve loosened up and we actually had a really good time. I have a hard time standing still in front of the camera, so I’m not sure I’m best as a model. It is very unnatural for me to hold a pose. Then you get a bit conscious about your body parts. Having an adorable 20 something woman photographer by the name of Kelly Stewart helped! That definitely relaxed me, I thought as a woman she knew which were the right poses for me.

Bree Turner in the film Ugly Truth

Bree Turner About Beauty

I keep my hair beautiful thanks to…Kerastase Chroma Protect it gives my hair texture, and prevents by blonde hair from turning brassy.

My favorite skincare products are…When I’m feeling super fancy I like to use skincare products from 3LAB. They have this cream that changed my skin! It’s called WW Cream, it’s expensive but I justify my purchase because it lasts me a long time. It totally minimized my pores, it gives a porcelain look to it, it’s amazing. I also love Neutrogena and their Oil Free Eye Makeup Remover. It’s the best! I also like Neutrogena Ultra-Soft Eye Makeup Remover Pads, ideal when you travel. It doesn’t’t leave any icky residue or greasiness.

I get my eyelashes looking long, full, and sexy using…Whatever packaging looks good, I’ll go with that, but right now I’m using Victoria’s Secret Beauty Rush Mascaras. You can buy them at the Victoria’s Secret store and they are only $5 for 4 mascaras. They come in different cool shades like navy, purple, and green, and black.

The best lip-gloss I ever owned…I love  Lip Gloss because it tastes like caramel and it stays on for long time. It’s kind of sticky but I like it. If you want to wear a lip gloss you can’t be afraid that it’s sticky!

My signature fragrance is…Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, it was given to me as a gift. At first I did’t like it that much. I’m a floral fruity type of fragrance girl and this one is woodsy. Then I start wearing it, and now I’m addicted to it! In high school I used to wear Jessica McClintock.

The one beauty product you will always find in my makeup bag is…Aquaphor Healing Ointment Advanced Therapy which I like to use underneath my lipstick, because I’ve developed some kind of lipstick allergy.

Bree Turner in the film Ugly Truth

My number one beauty secret is…My beauty mantra is look like I’m not wearing makeup or the the no makeup makeup look. I also really love smoky eyes. I use MAC Eye Kohl Liner in Teddy which is a red brown shade with a bit of a sparkle. I apply it in the inner rim of my eyes, they immediately pop out yet look very natural. And my indulgent is getting my hair professionally blown out once a week. I feel a bit like a 50’s housewife, but it really lasts especially with a dry shampoo. To keep the blow out last, at night I put my hair in a scratchy. When I take it down in the morning and my hair has this great wave to it. This rally changed my life, lol.

I keep fit thanks to…I work out, I’m not going to lie. I eat small portions. My weakness is candy like Gummy Bears in sour watermelon. I purposely don’t buy things that I’m going to binge on. My husband is not pleased because there is never anything interesting to eat in my kitchen. I also try to do something active everyday like go to the gym, a dance class, walk, and I take the stairs instead of the elevator.

The city I love the most…New York City! I have a person inside me that would love to live in New York. I would love to do a show there for six months, rent a flat, and live the New York City lifestyle. Los Angeles will always remain our home base because it’s so easy to live here, the weather, the ocean, and the mountains. But there is energy to New York City that nowhere else in the world has.

One or two things some people may not know about Bree Turner…I’m really good at video games, and like to stay up late watching TV. Like the other day, I watched Big Love until 4am!

It was great to discuss beauty secrets with Bree, watch her in the movie The Ugly Truth, and check her official website: www.breeturner.com