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Jennifer Lopez‘s make-up artist has detailed the hours of prep that went into creating her Super Bowl look, describing the experience as “crazy”.
On Sunday evening, Lopez and Shakira put on a show-stopping spectacle for the Super Bowl halftime show, performing a medley of songs including “Whenever, Wherever”, “Jenny from the Block” and “Let’s Get Loud”.
They wore an array of outfits for the performance, bringing the show to a close in similarly dazzling silver and gold ensembles.
Lopez’s make-up added a dramatic touch to her overall look, combining a sultry, smoky eye with a nude lip.
The beauty look was created by make-up artist Scott Barnes, whose preparations for the day began at 10am.
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The stars of the Super Bowl halftime show glistened in gold and silver as they closed their performance, Shakira wearing an outfit complete with a cropped jacket, crop top, tassles and trainers, and Jennifer Lopez in a stunning bodysuit, with silver embellishments going down her leg.
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Shakira was a vision in red as she opened the show with her 2009 song 'She Wolf', surrounded by a horde of dancers similarly clad in scarlet ensembles.
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The singer transitioned into a crop top and skirt combo as she performed a solo belly dancing routine, before being joined by her dancers to sing her hit 2001 track 'Whenever, Wherever'.
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Lopez began her portion of the show standing on a pole, in reference to her opening scene in Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers. The singer wore a billowing, pink skirt with a leather, cut-out, studded bodysuit and matching thigh-high boots underneath.
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Just before she began singing her 2002 song 'Jenny from the Block', Lopez ripped her pink skirt away to reveal her entire leather ensemble in full, which she accessorised with a pair of silver, fingerless gloves.
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Before performing a mesmerising pole-dancing routine, Lopez removed her black outfit to reveal a silver, mirrored bodysuit underneath. She was surrounded by an array of dancers wearing white and silver ensembles.
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Lopez's daughter, 11-year-old Emme Maribel Muñiz, made a surprise appearance during the evening's proceedings, joining her mother to sing her 1999 song 'Let's Get Loud'. Lopez draped a feathered American flag around her as she joined her daughter on the stage while Muñiz and the other child performers wore white.
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The stars of the Super Bowl halftime show glistened in gold and silver as they closed their performance, Shakira wearing an outfit complete with a cropped jacket, crop top, tassles and trainers, and Jennifer Lopez in a stunning bodysuit, with silver embellishments going down her leg.
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Shakira was a vision in red as she opened the show with her 2009 song 'She Wolf', surrounded by a horde of dancers similarly clad in scarlet ensembles.
Getty Images
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The singer transitioned into a crop top and skirt combo as she performed a solo belly dancing routine, before being joined by her dancers to sing her hit 2001 track 'Whenever, Wherever'.
Getty Images
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Lopez began her portion of the show standing on a pole, in reference to her opening scene in Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers. The singer wore a billowing, pink skirt with a leather, cut-out, studded bodysuit and matching thigh-high boots underneath.
Getty Images
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Just before she began singing her 2002 song 'Jenny from the Block', Lopez ripped her pink skirt away to reveal her entire leather ensemble in full, which she accessorised with a pair of silver, fingerless gloves.
Getty Images
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Before performing a mesmerising pole-dancing routine, Lopez removed her black outfit to reveal a silver, mirrored bodysuit underneath. She was surrounded by an array of dancers wearing white and silver ensembles.
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Lopez's daughter, 11-year-old Emme Maribel Muñiz, made a surprise appearance during the evening's proceedings, joining her mother to sing her 1999 song 'Let's Get Loud'. Lopez draped a feathered American flag around her as she joined her daughter on the stage while Muñiz and the other child performers wore white.
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“My vibe for this was Versace supermodel, the ‘90s,” Barnes told Elle.
The make-up artist explained that he took inspiration from Nineties photo shoots by the late Peter Lindbergh, which featured supermodels including Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington.
“I was like, ‘OMG, this reminds me of Linda, it could be Christy, and all of the girls’,” he said. “I wanted to give the nod to that, and that’s where the make-up inspiration came from.”
Barnes said that he began prepping for Lopez’s make-up at 10am, arriving at her home half an hour later.
“She was doing some rehearsing, we were doing fittings, and then nails started, and hair, and then make-up,” he explained.
“But I didn’t finish it yet, so I left the house around 3pm with a police escort. Yeah, a police escort.”
Barnes resumed doing Lopez’s make-up at 4.30pm, continuing until 5.30pm, just a few hours before the show.
“We did a quick little run through, and then we finished up and we were on stage. It was crazy,” the celebrity make-up artist said.
The Californian described how, while standing on the side of the stage, he was continuously checking he had all the necessary cosmetic products on hand for Lopez, including powder, lip gloss and bronzer.
“At that point, I was using a ton of products, my palette, my new lip glosses that are coming out, Marc Jacobs bronzer and Marc Jacobs eyeliner to be exact,” he said.
“That’s what we did the smoky eye with and it was so great and amazing. It was so soft and worked so well.”
One thing that could have proved an issue for Lopez’s make-up was the lighting on stage, which Barnes noted was “very strong”.
However, the use of the Marc Jacobs eyeliner proved Barnes’ saving grace.
“I felt like the light was very strong up there. I was like, ‘I have to do this eye punchier or else it’s going to disappear,” he recalled.
“Thank God for that eyeliner because it literally saved my life.”