How did Jennifer Lopez get her ``J.Lo Glow?'' Ask Scott Barnes. He invented it. The celebrity makeup artist and author of About Face, Amazing Transformations Using Secrets of the Top Celebrity Makeup Artist (Fair Winds/Quayside, $24.99) has been working with the actress for 11 years, most recently on The Back-up Plan. We gabbed with the 42-year-old Detroit native:
What is the `J.Lo Glow?'
``Essentially, it's a monochromatic palette, with glossy, nude lips and dewy skin. It makes you look youthful no matter your age. It's looking lit from within.''
How did you achieve Lopez's look in her new movie?
``Well, she's already gorgeous. She's Jennifer Lopez, for God's sake. Her character had money but was a free spirit, a pet shop owner, so I made her kind of hip, modern, clean, pretty. A little more glamorous than a plain Jane that lives next door.''
Tell us about the book.
``A large part of it focuses on makeovers of real women, ages 19 to 64, transforming the everyday woman into a movie star, like they did the old days, sending the actresses to Max Factor.''
What is the message?
``It's about the power of beauty. It's one thing to make yourself up for vanity's sake and quite another when your look can affect the outcomes of lives around you, using your beauty to be heard.''
Can you give an example?
``The [biblical] Book of Esther. She becomes queen of Persia because of her grooming and wound up leading an entire race of people. It doesn't get more significant than that.''
Anyone in modern day?
``Nancy Pelosi is always put together very well. If a beautiful woman is talking you're more apt to listen.''
So unattractive women won't be listened to?
``The bra-burning is passé -- not that it's not important or relevant. But what better power than to be gorgeous? That's why society listens to celebrities and why politics has gotten so heavily into Hollywood. Like, it wasn't about the inauguration, it was more about a who's who.''
Beside Lopez, whom do you consider gorgeous and powerful?
``I love Kim Kardashian. Her face is freakishly symmetrical. Very rarely do I see that. She has a great skin, a great smile. Very charming.''
What is the best makeup advice you can give South Florida women?
``Protect yourself from the sun. Fake a tan. Tanning beds are shaped like coffins for a reason.''
-- MADELEINE MARR
• Meet Scott Barnes from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops and at Silvia Tcherassi Atelier, 4101 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 6-8 p.m. Friday.
Miami.com writer Maria Tettamanti contributed to this report.
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