Inside The Tents at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week.

It is just two short days before the tent at Bryant Park is open. What tent? Well, the tents - a series of them actually, that makeup the main venue for Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week #NYFW. I am excited as I will be in New York, inside the tents, going to events, hanging with Glam and Total Beauty people and some of my other favorite beauty bloggers. I am so excited!

I will not inundate you with only Fashion Week posts all next week, but I will bring you some of what I feel are the stand-out trends in makeup for the Spring and Summer season ('09). To get the latest from everything going in inside and around the tents, you will want to check out Inside The Tents, a  great website that will feature a collaboration of bloggers' posts covering the events of the week.

The first picture here is what everyone sees outside of the tents during NYFW, but the second image is what us lucky bunch get to see inside the tents. It truly is one of the best New York City events, and I feel very privileged to be in attendance, again this season.

Fashion Week: Backstage at Marchesa with Stila Cosmetics.

Bold colors and floating dresses weren’t the only trends that walked the runway this season – fall beauty set its own stage with key looks and trends from Stila.

For four seasons, Marchesa has turned to stila cosmetics to complement their Hollywood-worthy designs with just the right makeup looks. Headlining makeup artist Talia Shobrook used lush, rich hues to complete the gilded splendor of the Marchesa collection.

Inspired by the iconography of the 16^th Century, Marchesa’s fall collection evokes the excess and elegance of the Golden Age. Drawing on the drama of the Spanish Armada, the designs embody the clash of lavish Spanish style and Elizabethan renaissance in an era marked by legendary monarchs. Shobrook captured the concept in a dramatic look that modernizes Elizabethan stylization, with dreamy, angelic complexions to reflect the soft, flowing quality of the collection.

An EXCLUSIVE "How To" from the artist:

Step one: skin
The look for skin is matte and pale. Begin by applying stila sheer pressed powder. Then, apply stila perfecting concealer to areas that require more coverage.

Step two: eyes
Neutral tones contour and accentuate a smoky eye framed with dramatic lashes and brows. Apply stila eye shadow in chinois to brow bones. Next, apply stila eye shadow shade in bouquet and kamet to the creases of your eyelids and your bottom lash line. Line the lower outer rim kajal liner in smoky quartz. Then sweep major lash mascara in brown over lashes and apply major lash in black to tips of lashes. Finally, fill in brows with brow set.

Step three: cheeks
Cheeks are natural but flushed for high contrast with pale skin. Use new cherry crush lip and cheek stain to create a bright flush against pale skin. Apply to fingertips to the high apples of the cheeks, blending out until the color diffuses into a soft stain.

Step four: lips
Lip color is shiny and saturated against matte skin and eyes. Apply cherry crush lip and cheek stain directly to lips for rosy color with a slick sheen. Next, dab SPF 20 lipstick in c aicos over cherry crush with fingertips to finish the look.

Gorgeous and totally wearable!

Bobbi Brown for The Heart Truth.

For the third year, Bobbi Brown and her team  sponsored The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection Show at Fashion Week. I was there last Friday and it was a joy to watch the lovely ladies strut their stuff down the runway.

Heidi Klum, Molly Sims, Lisa Rinna, Liza Minelli, Rita Moreno and more celebs wore red dresses to kick off thie years campaign. And what an honor it was to see the First Lady, Laura Bush, give the opening speech.

"I am thrilled to be a part of the Heart Truth Show for a third year in a row. It's important to educate and empower women with the knowledge they need to make smart lifestyle choices and Heart Truth does a great job of getting the word out," says Brown.

We can support the Heart Truth and raise awareness about heart disease while being a part of it all. Bobbi has created a Limited Edition Lip Palette.

This Lip Palette contains the following: Mauve Lip Shimmer, Kir Lip Shimmer, Cranberry Lip Sheer and Slopes Lip Color-and a mini Lip Brush.

The Heart Truth Lip Palette is available on her website, BobbiBrown.com throughout the month of February. The palette sells for $40, with proceeds going to The Heart Truth.