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The team responsible for giving Britney Spears her pre-Letterman makeover has spoken publicly about their recent experience with the singer. Brit was in her NYC hotel room with sons Sean-P and Jayden-J while having her hair lightened by celeb colorist Rita Hazan (who also lightens Jessica Simpson) when the makeup artist arrived. “She was very engaging with the baby, the older one,” the makeup artist says. “She had a lot going on. She seemed very busy… She looked awesome. She certainly didn’t look like a woman who just had a baby.” Hazan signed a confidentiality agreement stating she wouldn’t discuss anything Spears told her about the split, but did say Brit was “happy and fun and normal. She didn’t even have a mirror in front of her. She said to me, ‘Make me look beautiful.’” While having her makeup done, Spears ran through the lines she would recite later that night on the David Letterman show. “She didn’t seem like the happiest person in the world but didn’t seem terribly preoccupied, either,” the makeup artist says. “She was all business. We talked about Tom Cruise and how long he waited before he showed his baby.” When Britney saw the finished product, she said, “I’m back! I love it, I love it, I love it,” over and over again. “She’s growing up, is more mature and wants to feel good,” says Hazan. “She’s getting into shape. It’s a whole awakening.”

“Happy and fun and normal” — that’s exactly how the owner of a well-known L.A. boutique described Britney to me, saying that Brit is, hands down, the nicest celebrity to have shopped at her store. So while I would normally [INSERT MIND-BLOWINGLY WITTY JOKE ABOUT DIRE NEED FOR WARDROBE STYLIST HERE], I’ll just give Brit a free pass and wish her well in getting her life together. This time. (Hey, it’s late; the fatigue is making me soft…)