With The Runaways slated to debut in theaters next month, Robin Mathews, the makeup artist who created Kristen Stewart’s looks for the film (and Twilight!) reveals how she turned Stewart and costar Dakota Fanning (who played Jett’s band-mate Cherie Currie), into one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most iconic girl groups. “The Runways were only around for four years as a band but there was a tremendous amount of photographic documentation of them. I wanted to copy it identically and make sure that it wasn’t a modern take on the seventies,” says Mathews, who found herself in the unusual position of having the women she was recreating there in person to weigh in on the process. “Cherie and Joan were onset with us all the time, which was the biggest influence and help doing the makeup. All I had to do was ask them about makeup and have them sit next to Dakota or Kristen so I could compare facial structures.” In addition to cosmetically sculpting the actress’s faces to resemble the musicians, the key to each look was in the eyes.
“I wouldn’t say Joan [Jett] originated the smoky eye — but she sure was one of the first to rock it before anyone else”- albeit with one distinct divergence from today: “The one difference between the smoky eye that’s really interesting is back in the ’70s they did not line in the rim of their eye.” For Cherie, makeup was all about experimentation. “They did this thing in the ’70s that we won’t do again today, where they winged the eye shadow to be like this crazy swoop at the side of the eye,” she explains. “I kept saying to Cherie, ‘How did you do that wing? It’s so difficult for me to get it perfectly even. And she was like, ‘Honey, we didn’t know what we were doing. It could have just been a mistake. We just did what we were doing!’” Transform yourself into the Runaways with Mathews’s video eye how-tos using some of the same Make Up For Ever products she used on-set — and enter to win a trip to the movie’s N.Y.C. premiere.PeopleStyleWatch
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