Backstage NYFW: Chiara Boni's La Petite Robe Fashion Show with Aveda

I was so incredibly excited when I found out I was invited backstage at Chiara Boni's show with Aveda!! I made the accommodations that I needed to make in order to make sure that I could be there. I, along with a few other bloggers, were invited to take it all in.

The show was Wednesday September 16th at the ArtBeam in Chelsea. A beautiful open space that usually hosts fashion shows and other exhibitions.

If you don't know who Chiara Boni is, I advise you to drop everything and check out her website, her show and her looks. Chiara is an Italian designer with fresh fun looks inspired by every day life.
This SS16 show was magical- A Delicate Rose; full of blush tones, corals and pinks, you felt as if you were walking through a garden in full bloom at Spring's peak. It was beautiful.

I had the chance to meet and speak to Jon Reyman, the head hairdresser for Aveda and Spoke & Weal, who had come up with the hair look for the models and also with Janell Geason, the head makeup artist who came up with the natural garden glow make up look.

Amid the chaos of models getting their hair done, their make up done, their nails lacquered, interviews and dress rehearsals, I was lucky enough to get my hair done and speak to both Reyman and Geason.

Michelle, a lovely hair dresser for Aveda and Spoke & Weal, told me that a hot trend right now was small braids that made a fun statement, she proceeded to cornrow the part of my hair to just make a fun accent. I loved it!

Jon Reyman created the look he was going for on a model for us, he told us "We're putting in a few loose finger waves and we're making it really messy, very crunchy and we're gonna make it a little airy with this halo of texture. Then we're putting some dry shampoo in the back and were doing a little twisted barrel curl and mess that up. The hair is gonna be very strong, wet and then dry, it's gonna have some airiness to it and some edge to it, I think it really kind of youngs up the look. It's very cool and really on point for the season.

Reyman says that the trend for SS16 is all about really done and undone hair, it's an accessory to the clothes. Whether it will translate to the consumer is up to them and how they want to take it. I say go for it! If there's one thing you take away from Hair trends for SS16 is definitely texture, messiness and controlled chaos. Fun ;)

Janell Geason spoke to us with a model that she had just finished making up. She explained "As you can see the look has definitely taken inspiration from Chiara Boni's colors of her line, which is all about pinks, corals, reds, so think almost blossoming flowers in the spring. That is really what I thought about. The complexion is just really beautiful, just tinted moisture, kind of where needed, very fresh. Concealer where needed and then I just used out translucent mousse powder for just a really light dusting of powder. Nothing looks heavy. For brows, we just kind of gave her a little bit of shape, it wasn't about making them super dark it was more about just taking her natural shape and enhancing it. For eyes, it's just about taking a little bit of a lighter shade than her skin tone. Just to give a little sheen to the eyes, it's not about eyeshadow its about right in the center to make her look super fresh. Mascara on the outer corners to make it look wide awake look. For cheeks, we took inspiration once again from the colors, I used two different cheek colors, I used one called apricot whisker, which is more of a warm peachier, coraly tone, which I put along the C shape and just along the apples of her cheek we did a rose blossom. So it's just two different cheek colors to create a really fresh spring look. For her lips, what we've done is used our purple sage lip liner, which is your lip color but a little bit deeper. We lined it and diffused it out and we used one of my favorite colors for spring, its called Wild Fuchsia, which works well with the line, because it's all about those beautiful fuchsias. And then just to mix it up again, we took just in the center of the lip a nourishing lip elixir in sunkissed melon, so once again it's kind of this play on coralies and pinks and fuchsias, kind of combined together to create something that is just fresh and really pretty and very Italian girl- which is very Chiara Boni,"

I had a great time backstage meeting awesome artists and hearing a little bit about upcoming trends and about their work! I advise you to go check out Chiara Boni's collection because it was so beautiful! Think florally spring!

And that is when the best quote of all time pops into our heads "Florals for spring, groundbreaking!"