How Olivia Pope Handles Beauty and Nail Fine art

You lot can apparel like Olivia Pope (run into your 118-slide Kerry Washington Expect Book), but can you lot do your makeup exactly like Olivia Pope? There's not a makeup line — nonetheless — but Scandal's beauty team has been diligently tweeting (@ScandalMakeup), sharing the products and tips they use on their increasingly famous cast with over 11,000 followers. The Cut spoke to Denise Hooper, section makeup caput, and Linda Villalobos, Kerry Washington's hairstylist, about whether real-life Olivia Pope would own a flatiron and a concealer that changes lives. Yeah, lives. Simply like Olivia.

How do the characters and their beauty looks change for season iii?
 Everyone is a niggling fleck different in season three, except Olivia stays the same, although her life is falling apart. For the other characters, their makeup changes with their character. In season one, Quinn was always sort of broad-eyed and fresh faced in her flashbacks. As Quinn gets darker, we've upped her makeup and hair, to go with this "new Quinn." Before that, she was mostly natural. Abby is too coming into her own, with a sexier Abby. Mellie, we kind of have to keep the aforementioned with the White House. She tin't exist too glam.

For the men on the testify, the only time they actually change is in flashbacks. For example, David Rosen was actually scruffy before he was in Washington, D.C. But we mostly play with their look by altering the facial pilus.

What is Olivia Pope's arroyo to beauty and what does it reveal about her character?
 Olivia'south approach to beauty is as a existent person, no nonsense, because y'all can see how busy her life is. She needs to appear that she has it all together, which is reflected in her clothes, bag, and beauty. Her whole persona signifies that she has it nether control.

How does Olivia's hair look evolve from seasons one through three?
 In season ane, when Olivia first started working with the president, her hair was curlier, fuller, and longer with bangs. She had a younger, fresher look. After all that happened with the president, her hair became straighter, reflecting that she was set up to start a new life. It was a freer look that'southward still bourgeois, simply more than approachable. Just we also occasionally had her hair curly, because she has the type of hair that becomes curly when wet. Nosotros love showing that, because that's what really happens. We wanted to keep information technology real.

In flavor three, we kept it straight, but she's a little flake more agile. And we don't get too fancy with pilus colour considering that'due south non her character.

Correct, Olivia probably doesn't have time to be in a salon every six weeks to touch up her roots.
 Right, she's a decorated woman! And this isn't a hair show. Nosotros don't have a lot of time to practice it this style and that way.

Some political women, like Huma Abedin, are known for beingness very disciplined virtually their hair care. For example, Abedin is rumored to carry a blow dryer with her and accident-dry it herself every morning when she travels. Is that something Olivia would practise in real life?
 Olivia definitely would. Olivia would have some sort of equipment like a blow dryer or a flatiron. She is in the center of the public all the time. She always has to look polished. She'due south not ever one to exist looking in the mirror all day, only she ever has to look presentable. She is fully prepared. Olivia Pope is always treatment it.

How do you approach her hair look for fancier functions like galas?
 With Olivia Pope, at that place's always fashion moments, then a lot of information technology depends on her wardrobe. If a dress is so stunning and overpowering, I'll try to brand her hair simple. Olivia Pope doesn't demand to try too hard because she is Olivia Pope.

Are any of the characters into blast art?
 No to nail art! The actresses all have care of their nails themselves. They by and large utilise shellac. They all have natural-looking nails for the office. Kerry's nails are a mix of ii colors:CND Shellac in Cocoa layered with Romantique, done by Lisa Wong.

Click through the slideshow for the Scandal dazzler department's favorite beauty products to use on Mellie, Fitz, Quinn, Abby, and, of form, Olivia.

"The makeup on the men is pretty minimal, only we couldn't live without Giorgio Armani Face Material. The guys don't mind this on their faces at all."

"It'southward a natural lip, using a Chubby Stick from Clinique called 'Whole Lotta Honey.' It's a color and texture that is so easy for the Olivia graphic symbol to put on." "I try not to put as well much product in her hair, because I love for her hair to move. She has such a forcefulness in her walk. I like for her hair to bounciness, be costless, and look shiny. I put in Shell Sebastian Cellophane, a conditioning clear coloring that seals it in, protects information technology from heat, and gives amazing smoothen."

"Olivia'due south foundation is Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation. It photographs well and has really good coverage, making the skin look dewy. The chroma is NARS Oasis. The eyeshadow is Lorac Pro Palette and the mascara is Kevyn Aucoin."

"Kerry Washington's makeup artist, Sheri Knight, is obsessed with NARS Flossy Concealer in Caramel. Sherry said it changed her life, that after using it, she never had to touch upward Kerry'southward under-eye area ever again. It's the virtually perfect concealer ever."

"Mellie and Quinn wear Cle de Peau foundation. Mellie has really, luminous, pretty skin and the Cle de Peau foundation gives it a pretty canvas that you can see pare through. For Abby, there'southward this La Prairie foundation color that is made for her skin. It'due south all expensive but sometimes they're in that makeup for xv hours. To make the makeup last, we use three bones primers: Giorgio Armani Calorie-free Master Primer, Amazing Cosmetics's Anti-Aging Primer, and Lorac. On one episode concluding year, all the characters wore Clinique'southward Whole Lotta Love and it looked different but good on everyone."

"Post-sex, we use ane of the Tarte Cheek Stains in Flush."

How Olivia Pope Handles Beauty and Boom Art