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Amanda Peet: 'Igby Goes Down'

Rachel (Peet), left, spirals toward despair when her love affair ends with Igby's godfather (Goldblum).

(InStyle) -- While Igby (Kieran Culkin) spends the duration of this dour comedy fleeing from the dysfunction wealth and privilege have dealt him, Rachel (Amanda Peet), the mooching choreographer mistress of Igby's godfather (Jeff Goldblum), desperately latches on to this old-money world.

"She starts out as this stunning, strong-willed woman," says makeup artist Eileen Kastner-Delago. "Her look is clean and self-confident." A modern-day Edie Sedgwick (from her heavily made-up eyes to her black tights and sixties-hip fashions), Rachel suffers a tragic downward spiral toward drug abuse and despair when her Upper East Side love affair flounders.

The deeper she drifts the more unkempt her sleek bob and makeup become. Says Kastner-Delago, "She's like a wild creature that got loose."

Hair

"The shape is retro, but it's styled in a contemporary way," says hairstylist Quentin Harris of Peet's dark brown and blond-streaked layered sixties bob. Harris began by applying Bumble and Bumble Leave In conditioner and Straight gel to Peet's damp hair before blowing it dry with a large-barrel brush. Then to give her naturally wavy tresses modern flair he straightened them with a flatiron, after which he created a side part and back-combed the crown for added height. Finally, he pulled her hair into a low, tucked ponytail. Bumble and Bumble styling wax created a sleek finish.

Eyes

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"Amanda has amazing, powerful eyes," says Kastner-Delago, who began by defining Peet's brows, which helped create "a more in-depth character." To avoid a "tattooed" look, she applied both shades from Paula Dorf Brow Duet in Brunette. Next she washed lids and lower lash lines with MAC eye shadow in Shale (mauve plum) and contoured the socket line with MAC shadow in Sketch (burgundy plum). "I stayed with purple because of her olive skin and blue eyes," says Kastner-Delago. "Her eyes just popped."

She lined upper lashes with MAC Crème liner in black, softening with MAC shadow in Purple Haze, which she also blended along lower rims. To "emphasize and enrich," she rimmed inside lower lash lines with Chanel Precision Eye Definer in Violet Smoke. The final touch: Two to three coats of Maybelline Great Lash waterproof mascara in Very Black.

Face

To ensure Peet's eyes remained the focus of her face, Kastner-Delago skipped blush entirely and even kept foundation to a minimum. "I wanted to keep her face fresh-looking," she says. Kastner-Delago applied MAC Face and Body foundation in N4 lightly around the nose and mouth, "just to even out the skin," and dabbed Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-3 under the eyes. She finished with a light dusting of Lorac Translucent Touch Up powder in TL 3.

Lips

Kastner-Delago used a velvety pink lip tint to balance Peet's heavily defined eyes. To unlined lips, she swept on Nars Lip Lacquer in Butterfield 8. Then for added shimmer she dabbed Nars The Multiple in Copacabana on center of bottom and top lips.