The most coveted beauty looks on the red carpet these days are being created by one glam squad trio — who happen to share the same genes.
Meet the Streichers.
Makeup artist Jenn, brow expert Kristie and hairstylist Ashley Streicher have an A-list roster of clients, including Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Emily Blunt and Kiernan Shipka. They also have the ear of the style industry, thanks to a column in Hollywood beauty bible Violet Grey.
In 2014, they made their sister act official with the opening of Striiike salon in Beverly Hills, Calif., whose walls Instagram-artist Donald Robertson recently painted with his trademark lip motif.
“Everything in our life has been unplanned, and everything has been this beautiful sort of mistake,” says Jenn, 41.
Though the sisters are aesthetic tastemakers, they grew up as tomboys in Grass Valley in Northern California, where they weren’t exactly running around in curlers doing each other’s hair. Still, Kristie, 39, cops to some childhood experiments.
“I once gave my sister Ashley a bob with my mom’s pinking shears while my dad was taking a nap, and cut off the tip of her [ear]lobe,” Kristie says, “I got severely punished for that one.”
When Jenn was 26, she decamped to New York City, where she took a job as an assistant at the upscale Warren Tricomi salon. Soon after, Tricomi scooped up Kristie, who had moved to the city, and Ashley quickly followed suit. Still, it took years for the trio to realize they should go into business together.
In the past decade the sisters migrated to LA, building their boldface beauty portfolio and sometimes working together on clients and online tutorials using their trademark pared-down approach. When they opened Striiike, it solidified their place as darlings of the style world.
And if isn’t enough to work together, Jenn (who has a 3-year-old son, Arrow) lives down the street from Ashley, 32. Kristie is engaged to an orthopedic surgeon and lives in nearby Bel Air.
Their Beverly Hills collaboration has helped the trio forge an even stronger bond.
“We’re sisters, so of course we fight,” Jenn says. “We all three go to therapy together. But we work really well together. My father passed three years ago and he didn’t get to see this. I think he would be so proud.”
Here are the celebrity faces and hair for which the sisters are most famed — and a step-by-step guide for achieving those looks.
Cara Delevingne’s brows
Kristie’s pioneered a bushy “feathered brow” technique and believes lots of makeup isn’t necessary if you have strong, full brows. “Cara [Delevingne’s] are definitely the most talked-about,” Kristie says. “They are dark, full and long, [and] almost expand her entire forehead, so they’re the focal point of her face.” Here’s how to get the supermodel’s look, seen here in February at Paris fashion week.
First, apply Surratt Expressioniste’s Brow Pencil Rechargeable Holder ($25 at barneys.com) with a spoolie-type brush. Lightly brushing, using feather strokes, go against the direction of growth to get under the hair, and then blend out. It’s important to extend the ends to their natural ending points.
Kiernan Shipka’s hair
Ashley’s tamed the tresses of everyone from Jessica Paré to Carrie Brownstein. Like her sisters, she believes in enhancing one’s natural beauty — meaning, don’t style your hair curly if it’s naturally straight, and don’t force it to be straight if it’s curly. “This look is great for midlength hair,” says Ashley of this “undone” ’do she created for the “Mad Men” starlet for the Costume Designers Guild Awards in February.
In 1-to-2-inch sections, create a wave using a flatiron. “That’s key — making a wave as opposed to a curl gives it the ‘undone’ look,” says Ashley. Wave each section in the opposite direction of the one before it, giving the look variation.
Emily Blunt’s makeup
At 26, Jenn decamped to New York, where she assisted hair guru Edward Tricomi at Warren Tricomi. But she quickly decided makeup was her passion. “My general aesthetic is enhancing what you already have, and Emily is just a natural beauty,” says Jenn about the dewy glow she created for the actress for the Oscars. “I don’t think anybody would come and I say, ‘I want to be contoured like Kim Kardashian.’ ”
For Blunt, Jenn used Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in “Incandescent Electra ($38 at sephora.com) — on the apples of the cheeks.
Apply Clé de Peau ($70 at neimanmarcus.com) concealer under the eye, then Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye in Colour in “Rose Gold” ($26.10 each at nordstrom.com) all over the eyelid and crease.
Then, trace the lash line with Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour in “Grey Pearl” ($26.10 at nordstrom.com) and layer a Matte Eye Colour in “Cashmere” ($25 at sephora.com) in the crease. Finish off with a creamy color balm a pinky nude.
Written By Kirsten Fleming
Source:The New York Post
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