We got an exclusive interview with Rihanna’s makeup artist Karin Darnell. You can read it below!

  • UR: What inspired you for Rihanna’s Loud Tour make up?

Karin: “The Loud tour make up has been inspired by the Loud campaign! It summarises all the different looks we have done over the last year! It started with soft pastel lilacs and greens and soft oranges on the eyes (no hard lines) and beautiful simple lashes.
Last july/August…nobody else had done these colours and they soon became the signature spring summer colours for 2011!! We were very happy with that!
We mixed Ruby woo red lips (by MAC) with these soft pastel eyes too…. an unusual but stunning combination!…another look we see more of now, in magazines and on the street!
These colours have influenced the tour!”

  • UR: Do you like how Rihanna looks without any makeup on?

Karin: “Rihanna is so beautiful with and without make up!
Over the course of the Loud campaign, she has become more natural…especially on the California King Bed video! I think she looks amazing! It was a conscious decision to become softer as the last album was so tough looking!”

  • UR: What is your favourite makeup style that you have ever done on Rihanna?

Karin: “I don’t have a favourite make up style, I have loved everything we were doing at the time we were doing it!
I always love and whole heartedly believe in what we are doing at that given moment!…
However its important to always move forward and find new things!…that is what a creative person does…both Rihanna and I are always moving forward!
Otherwise things get boring!”

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One of the best-selling artists of all time with more than 30 million records and 100 million singles sold, Rihanna has signed a multi-year deal with The Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) to exclusively promote her hometown island of Barbados as a tourist destination. The three-year partnership officially kicks off in Bridgetown, Barbados on August 5, 2011 with a full-length concert of her current “Loud” tour produced by the BTA and Roc Nation.

“Barbados is a place like no other and one of the reasons for this is the spirit and national pride of our people,” said Rihanna. “I want each and every visitor to this beautiful island to experience what makes this destination different from all others and that is the spirit and warmth of my fellow Barbadians.”

As an ambassador for the island of Barbados, over the next three years, Rihanna will exclusively promote the destination through advertising campaigns, promotional appearances and via her social media presence. In addition to her concert in Barbados this summer, Rihanna will promote travel to the island from Brazil during her appearance on tour in September.

“In the hearts of every Barbadian, Rihanna is known as the girl down the road, but to the world she has become a musical sensation and social phenomenon,” said Barbados’ Minister of Tourism, the Hon. Richard L. Sealy. “She is a great source of national pride to Barbados and we are thrilled to enter into this formal partnership to promote Barbados as a leading tourist destination.”

Rihanna has defended the footage of Man Down, insisting she just wanted to warn young fans about the dangers of the “real world”, and director Anthony Mandler has now backed her up, branding the headline-hitting criticism simply a “knee-jerk” reaction.

The filmmaker is also convinced today’s artists need to stop playing safe with their music videos and push the boundaries in the way Madonna did in the 1980s.

He tells the Hollywood Reporter, “It’s (the video) doing exactly what Rihanna and I hoped it would do, which is shine a light on the very dark subject matter… This medium used to be a great medium of messages… I grew up in the era of Madonna releasing videos and sparking controversy. I think most people are wasting this medium…

“The fact that there’s an argument to ban this because this will make girls retaliate from abuse with murder is skipping over the point. We obviously have a huge issue to deal with as a country.”

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