The glow down

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Dec 18, 2013

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Obama inaugural ball, 2009: “To me this has a very Audrey quality,” Scott Barnes says. “It was really fabulous. And to me she is the quintessential Latina. So here she is co-hosting this ball with Marc and she looks like the queen she is.” Jason Kempin/Getty Images

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Fashion Group Internationals ball, 2008: “This look is polished. The focus is on her eyes. Jennifer’s very expressive with her eyes. She’s a lion; I call her my lion.” Barnes says the eye shadow is pale gray and purple, and the lips are a mix of cream blush and concelaer for that perfect nude look. Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com

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New Year’s Eve, 2009: Barnes said he hand-glued 10 Swarovski crystals to each of Lopez’s eyelids. “It’s such a beast trying to glue those on,” he says. Roger Kisby/Getty Images

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Oscars, 2001: For his first Oscar look, Scott Barnes had Shu Uemura custom-make two pairs of fox and mink lashes. Every bit the diva in her Chanel dress and fur lashes, Lopez’s makeup stole the show. On Madonna trying to own the look? “No, b—h! You didn’t make fox fur eyelashes. I did! she thinks everything is hers.” Steve Granitz/WireImage.com

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“El Cantante,” 2006: “[This movie] was a challenge because it was about turning Jennifer into Puchi, the wife of a salsa singer, from when she was 16 years old — to when she was old, drugged and lost,” Barnes says.

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Rolling Stone, 2001: “This is all highlighter,” Barnes says. “This is all Body Bling. it’s the birth of Body Bling and the J. Lo glow. The shoot was Jennifer the Conqueror. There was never a product that you could make somebody tan in two minutes, so I made it.”

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Elle magazine, 2010: “This is not a 40-year-old woman. OK? OK. That is all I have to say about that,” Barnes says. Tom Munro/Elle Magazine

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