Red-Carpet Beauty
New York Post - February 26, 2011
Celebs get Oscar-ready with luxe beauty treatments
Glamour hits its gliziest this weekend. But how do stars get that certain je ne sais quoi glow? Along with stylists and makeup artists, the glitterati enlist other beauty specialists to reach red-carpet heights. Here's how a few of Hollywood's finest get their skin and hair to glow.
Julianna Margulies - The Golden Globe winner's shooting schedule for "The Good Wife" was particularly arduous prior to her acceptance speech, so Manhattan esthetician Tracie Martyn-Brad Pitt's facialist of choice-added nutrient-filled moist eye pads to the "Red Carpet Facial" she has developed for celebs' special nights. The treatment combines an electronic current for lifting with amber LED lights, shown to brighten the skin and combat wrinkles. To give Margulies extra definition in profile shots, Martyn applied her Resculpting Body Cream to the actress' jaw line-the lotion contains the amino acid L-carnitine, meant to speed up the metabolism in that area.