THE first time I saw Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach in person at a Uniqlo event, she hadn’t won the Bb. Pilipinas Universe title yet. I thought she looked like Anne Curtis.
During the Miss Universe pageant, she looked very different. I realized that it was because she was very tanned. I would later learn from a makeup artist that from her MAC Cosmetics foundation shade of NC25 (medium light), Pia was using NC42 (a shade worn by morenas). According to the makeup artist, this is a trick to make you look slimmer.
I read that Pia received instructions on how to do her makeup from her favorite makeup artist, MAC affiliate Gery Penaso. Miss Universe candidates need to do their own makeup. According to Penaso, MAC is one of Pia’s favorites and she owns about 30 of the brand’s lipsticks. During Pia’s visit to the Philippines, MAC Cosmetics hosted a party for her and her family and closest friends, and I asked Vanessa Vergara, the brand’s public relations and artist relations in the country, to ask a few questions for me. I wanted to know Pia’s beauty routine and I wasn’t surprised to learn that it wasn’t complicated at all. “At night, I wash my face before I moisturize and apply a good eye cream. It’s the same for the morning.”
I heard MAC Fast Response Eye Cream is one of Pia’s favorites.
As for makeup, Pia’s daily essentials are concealer, mascara (on curled lashes) and lipstick. She is very adventurous when it comes to lipstick.
During the party, she wore MAC Matte Lipstick in Antique Velvet, an intense brown.
In an interview, Penaso has said one of Pia’s strengths as a beauty queen is that she is a chameleon who can easily change her look. It helps that before she became a beauty queen, Pia was a newspaper columnist and a stylist, and, thus, is updated with the latest trends.
For most of her National Football League Super Bowl appearances, Pia sported a no-makeup makeup look. But for the parties and red carpet events, she went all out with smokey eyes and contoured cheeks. We cannot wait to see her upcoming looks as she continues to conquer the world as Miss Universe.
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