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Jeanine Lobell, who doesn't know who she is? If not by name than her hugely successful make-up line stila is a household name. I much prefer her aesthetic and execution over Bobbi Brown whose business savvy and angle I also admire but her work ironically comes across as heavy-handed at times. Jeanine used to appear in Bazaar in the late 90s and if I can find those articles will scan and post them here. There's surprisingly very little official background info on Jeanine but here's an older article I found:
When celebrity makeup artist Jeanine Lobell first developed her Stila cosmetic line, she revealed to almost no one that she was married to ""ER" star Anthony Edwards.
Recently, Stila was bought by Estee Lauder, giving Lobell the resources and the high-tech labs to develop her ideal products. It has also made her into Madame Mogul. That her hubby has given notice on "ER" sounds like too much of a coincidence.
In town last week for a public appearance at Nordstrom, Lobell seemed much more relaxed about both her business and her famous spouse.
"I kept a good secret for a long time," she said, laughing about how she used to ask the media not to announce to whom she was married. "I wanted to be the one written about and noticed, not because of who he was. Now . . he jokes that he's married to me! Is he gonna stay home and be a house husband? I wish. I tell him: Honey, you stay home and I'll bring home the bacon."
Stylish in a very French way, Lobell is gamine and totally dedicated to her family. Along with Stila, she is raising a family of three children under the age of 8, including a 7-year-old son and two daughters, ages 4 1/2 and six months. She says she isn't finished. "I want five," she smiles. "That is, if my body holds up."
Lobell was born in Stockholm 37 years ago to an American who did not want to return to the States after the Korean War. On her own since she was 16, Lobell lived in Europe and in San Francisco for years and says she learned her makeup skills when she lived in London during her teenage years.
Stila (which is Latin for "pen") was born in 1994 -- a limited color line packaged in recyclable paper with jaunty quotations by famous women (Colette, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein) inscribed under the lids. Barneys was the first store to sell it, followed by Fred Siegel and selected Southern California Nordstrom stores.
Now, Stila is distributed internationally, one of the benefits of being bought by such a big company.
"I like the idea of being an international brand and also working with the best chemists and the best labs," she says. On the drawing boards: a skin-care line, which is about a year away.
Having Lauder bankroll Stila is almost a dream come true, Lobell adds. "Now,
if I want it, I can make it," she says. "You get this picture in your head and see it in your hand six months later. I love that!"
Stila has become a favorite cosmetic for some hot Hollywood properties, especially if Lobell is there to paint the famous faces for magazine covers, red carpet appearances and films. She has her favorites. Lobell designed Laura Linney's siren face for the recent Oscars, turning the blonde into an old- fashioned '50s movie queen with cats' eye black liner, tons of mascara and a bright, slick strawberry glaze on her lips that matched the scarlet of her Valentino couture gown.
Recently, Lobell was holed up in the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills with Liv Tyler during a press junket for "One Night at McCool's." For Tyler, who has puffy, pouty lips, she painted on her favorite red lipstick, a sheer rose-red called Sofia, named for the daughter of a friend.
"Liv has great lips," she said with a laugh, pausing dramatically. "And . . . . they're real. She's so like Ava Gardner reincarnated."
Lobell also works with Jennifer Lopez, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron, Sharon Stone (for her recent Marie Claire and Elle covers) and a special favorite, Cameron Diaz, for whom she designed her "Charlie's Angels" look.
"I did Vanity Fair, Esquire and Tatler covers with Charlize. She definitely has this pale but golden skin. She's like a Vargas girl. So gorgeous. And Sharon Stone? What great skin she has. Amazing. Her skin is perfect. You really want to show that."
[Part 1]
source: www.sfgate.com
When celebrity makeup artist Jeanine Lobell first developed her Stila cosmetic line, she revealed to almost no one that she was married to ""ER" star Anthony Edwards.
Recently, Stila was bought by Estee Lauder, giving Lobell the resources and the high-tech labs to develop her ideal products. It has also made her into Madame Mogul. That her hubby has given notice on "ER" sounds like too much of a coincidence.
In town last week for a public appearance at Nordstrom, Lobell seemed much more relaxed about both her business and her famous spouse.
"I kept a good secret for a long time," she said, laughing about how she used to ask the media not to announce to whom she was married. "I wanted to be the one written about and noticed, not because of who he was. Now . . he jokes that he's married to me! Is he gonna stay home and be a house husband? I wish. I tell him: Honey, you stay home and I'll bring home the bacon."
Stylish in a very French way, Lobell is gamine and totally dedicated to her family. Along with Stila, she is raising a family of three children under the age of 8, including a 7-year-old son and two daughters, ages 4 1/2 and six months. She says she isn't finished. "I want five," she smiles. "That is, if my body holds up."
Lobell was born in Stockholm 37 years ago to an American who did not want to return to the States after the Korean War. On her own since she was 16, Lobell lived in Europe and in San Francisco for years and says she learned her makeup skills when she lived in London during her teenage years.
Stila (which is Latin for "pen") was born in 1994 -- a limited color line packaged in recyclable paper with jaunty quotations by famous women (Colette, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein) inscribed under the lids. Barneys was the first store to sell it, followed by Fred Siegel and selected Southern California Nordstrom stores.
Now, Stila is distributed internationally, one of the benefits of being bought by such a big company.
"I like the idea of being an international brand and also working with the best chemists and the best labs," she says. On the drawing boards: a skin-care line, which is about a year away.
Having Lauder bankroll Stila is almost a dream come true, Lobell adds. "Now,
if I want it, I can make it," she says. "You get this picture in your head and see it in your hand six months later. I love that!"
Stila has become a favorite cosmetic for some hot Hollywood properties, especially if Lobell is there to paint the famous faces for magazine covers, red carpet appearances and films. She has her favorites. Lobell designed Laura Linney's siren face for the recent Oscars, turning the blonde into an old- fashioned '50s movie queen with cats' eye black liner, tons of mascara and a bright, slick strawberry glaze on her lips that matched the scarlet of her Valentino couture gown.
Recently, Lobell was holed up in the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills with Liv Tyler during a press junket for "One Night at McCool's." For Tyler, who has puffy, pouty lips, she painted on her favorite red lipstick, a sheer rose-red called Sofia, named for the daughter of a friend.
"Liv has great lips," she said with a laugh, pausing dramatically. "And . . . . they're real. She's so like Ava Gardner reincarnated."
Lobell also works with Jennifer Lopez, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron, Sharon Stone (for her recent Marie Claire and Elle covers) and a special favorite, Cameron Diaz, for whom she designed her "Charlie's Angels" look.
"I did Vanity Fair, Esquire and Tatler covers with Charlize. She definitely has this pale but golden skin. She's like a Vargas girl. So gorgeous. And Sharon Stone? What great skin she has. Amazing. Her skin is perfect. You really want to show that."
[Part 1]
source: www.sfgate.com
