MAKEUP TIPS FROM A STARR

"When you're a makeup artist, there are two things you can do: create a line with a big company or write a book," says Paul Starr. Now he's done both. The director of Estee Lauder's national makeup-artist team, he somehow found the time to interview 30 of his favorite faces, who somehow found the time to share their thoughts on beauty (99 percent say it comes from within), aging (bring it on!), diet (protein and chocolate), and what they love most in life (laughter and sex) for Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations with Thirty Celebrated Women (Melcher Media). "It was time to show people the intimate world that's created between a makeup artist and his muse," says Starr, who, in his 20-year career, has shared secrets with everyone from Anjelica Huston to Lindsay Lohan. The book also shows readers how to create their own red-carpet looks, but Starr's favorite style is clean, like the barefaced starlets he did for Vanity Fair's 2002 Young Hollywood cover. "It was the highest compliment when Annie Leibovitz told me afterward, 'I love your makeup because it's about finding the woman.' C.M.

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