The LOOK: How to Steal a Celebrity’s Look

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Frank Barbosa, GoLocalProv Style Expert

He was the lead hair stylist on Sex and the City 2, he made Anne Hathaway fabulous on film, and now he's GoLocalProv's weekly style expert. Frank Barbosa, the Newport-based celebrity stylist, brings red carpet perspective to hair, makeup, and overall style.

So we flip through magazines, check out the red carpet shots online, watch E! more than we want our coworkers to know... because let's face it, those girls look fierce and we want their looks.
Is there really a way to get it?
Yes.
Fierce young fashionistas, here are your five steps.

1. Hire a stylist...

to help you create your own, red-carpet-level look. Inquire over the phone if they are comfortable doing this, and what they will charge for a session that includes consultation.

2. Before your appointment, prepare.

Make a look book. Find images you're attracted to, and collect them in one folder, notebook, or scrapbook that you can bring with you to your appointment.

3. Make a plan...

with your stylist and budget for it (and for the upkeep!).

4. Go for it!

And have a fabulous holiday party to attend that night!

5. Get solid advice...

on how to keep the look up yourself, and ask your stylist to help you do it yourself, to start. We can't all have our stylists on the team every day, now can we?
(Well, we can dream...)

From Sex and the City 2 to Rachel Getting Married, from The Sorcerer's Apprentice to Bride Wars, Frank Barbosa has styled some of the biggest celebrities in film, TV, and theater. He's been in the industry for 17 years, moving from hip neighborhoods in Chicago, to Boston's Newbury St, to Bellevue Avenue in Newport. He maintains that his real passion, though, is being behind a salon chair.

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