The Willamette
Week Guerrilla Makeover Team hit the streets recently.
The goal: to identify, accost and visually overhaul
pedestrians teetering on the brink of achieving their personal
style potential. The tools: one hair and makeup artist,
one stylist and a photographer. The location: the rain-soaked
corner of Northwest 23rd Avenue and Irving Street. The
approach: equal parts Hare Krishna missionary and Girl
Scout cookie sales professional.
 
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Name: Michael Lee
Fashion Crime: Scissor avoidance
Punishment:
Locks lopped off
Report: Fairly certain that he
is NOT one of the eight men in the Western world who
look better with long hair, we persuaded Mr. Lee to
part with his. A cashmere sweater and tidied-up facial
hair completed the transformation. Perhaps inspired
by his newly urbane look, Mr. Lee was overheard asking
the hairstylist to join him for an after-work cocktail.
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Name: Jackie Hamm
Fashion Crime: Eyebrow neglect
Punishment:
Operation Brow Definition
Report: As an entertainment consultant
in Los Angeles, Hamm knows the importance of a signature
look. We helped her identify and highlight her own
strengths. Because eyebrows frame the face, it's critical
they be addressed. In Jackie's case, it was only a
matter of creating a more natural shape. Eye shadow
works double-duty here. We brushed it over Jackie's
brow, balancing her already dramatic look.
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Name: Antoinette Barbour
Fashion Crime: None--false arrest
Punishment:
Late for work
Report: Barbour didn't strike
us as somebody in need of style salvation. We wanted
to see what we could do with an already impressive
subject, and she was just grateful to change out of
her rain-drenched clothes. Time to stow the cargo
pants. A romantic, colorful dress is a must-have for
summer and refreshing after seasons of unisex minimalism.
Twisting small sections of hair off Antoinette's face
created a look that's at once angelic and exotic.
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Names: Lincoln High School sophomores
Lindsay Riedlinger and Kate Sweeney
Fashion Crime: Carrying tomboy too far
Punishment:
A girly injection
Report: After confirming that
their parents don't know where we live, the WW
Guerrilla Makeover Team went to work. We used rhinestone
insect pins to anchor Lindsay's hair and shortened
Kate's hair slightly by adding choppy layers around
her face. And because nobody needs makeup less than
a teenage girl, we opted for a mere slick of pink
lip gloss for each. Absence of litigation by the girls'
parents suggests the makeovers were a success.
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Willamette Week | originally
published June 9, 1999
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