flying colors; With the help of a famous friend, fashion's favorite face-maker, Gucci Westman, brings seaside shades-and a dash of her own effervescent spirit-to spring's new makeup.

Byline: Maggie Bullock

Gucc!" Starbucks in hand, yellow Lab, Flossie, at her side, Drew Barrymore makes a beeline across a Manhattan photo studio to scoop up makeup artist Gucci Westman into an affectionate bear hug. Seconds later, the duo is locked in the hushed, familiar tones of serious girl talk. Barrymore, the 29-year-old actor/producer/Hollywood powerhouse, has just flown in from Toronto, where she's filming Fever Pitch with Jimmy Fallon. Westman-who regularly shoots with Mario Testino, Steven Klein, and Annie Leibovitz and is enough of an It girl to star in her own Levi's ad-is no less crazed: In the past two weeks, she has zigzagged from New York to London to Paris to Los Angeles and back again. Tomorrow, she is bound for Tokyo.

Beyond being friends for six years, Barrymore and Westman are frequent collaborators. This time, the makeup artist enlisted the movie star, casting her in a starring role in her latest project: the campaign for Lancome's spring collection. Dubbed "French Riviera," it marks Westman's official debut as the brand's international artistic director, responsible for creating each season's color palette. "It's very Grace Kelly, Faye Dunaway-iconic, stylish, but a little more playful," she says of her ode to the clean yet seductive look of the sixties seaside bombshell. It's a look that Barrymore embodies in the line's advertisements, shot by S lve Sundsb , and which the two are in the midst of re-creating today. "That's what makes Drew so ideal for this," says Westman as she dots pink gloss onto her subject's lips. "She's this classic beauty, but not too perfect. There's nothing cold about her."

"When Gucci does my makeup, I know I'm going to feel my most beautiful, sexy, wow," says Barrymore, returning the compliment.

Lancome first called in late 2003, offering Westman carte blanche to dream up her "ultimate fantasy products." But creating one's Ultimate Fantasy anything is more than a little ...