Goodbye Hills, hello glamour!

Lauren Conrad, 24, wowed fans at the series’ wrap party in Hollywood Tuesday night with her sophisticated Bohemian style. The reality vet’s hair and makeup team tell UsMagazine.com how to steal her look.

“Our overall inspiration was a chic California girl with a ’60s twist,” M•A•C makeup pro Gregory Arlt tells Us.

To get Conrad’s dewey complexion, he played up Conrad’s natural beauty by using neutral colors.

“Mix a pea sized drop of M•A•C Studio Sculpt foundation with two drops of Jasmine oil on the back of your hand,” Arlt tells Us. “The oil will extend the foundation, allowing it to apply harmoniously to your skin.”

Begin blending the foundation with a sponge at the center of your face, paying close attention to under the eyes and on the cheeks. Next, apply powder with a large fluffy brush for in a circular motion. Lightly add M•A•C “Margin” blush in a circular motion on the apples of the cheeks.

Arlt chose not to use eye shadow on Conrad, opting instead to play with M•A•C Mineralized Skin Finish powder in “Light/Medium” on her lids.

“I used the lighter one on the lids and under the brows with a dense, stiff brush,” Arlt says. “I contoured the crease of the eye with a darker powder and fluffy eyeshadow brush. Apply that on the brow bone in a back and forth fashion to blend.”

When applying M•A•C’s “Haute+Naughty” mascara, do so diagonally on the outer lashes, forward on the middle lashes and downward toward the nose for the inner lashes. This will create a wispy, fan-like effect. Next, apply M•A•C “Blacktrack” liquid liner to the eye (thinner toward the inner eye and thicker toward the outer eye for a graphic cat eye). Finish with a dab of clear lip gloss.

To get Conrad’s flirty ponytail, hairstylist Kristin Ess created messy waves in all different directions using 1″ and 1 1/4″ curling irons. She then created a small ponytail in the back of her head using about half of the hair from the middle back. She then took the remaining hair and made a ponytail over the original ponytail and left it slightly messy.

“When you’re dealing with thick hair like Lauren’s, doubling up the ponytail like that insures that it won’t slide down or loosen up throughout the night,” Ess tells Us.

To keep her tresses in tact, Ess sprayed a light veil of hairspray over the look, shaking the ponytail as she sprayed it for an extra bit of texture.

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Now that The Hills is over and done with, Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad are letting bygones be bygones — but they’re not exactly BFFs, either.

Cavallari, 23, replaced Conrad, 24, as the protagonist and “narrator” of the series in 2009, but the pair have a rocky history: as schoolmates on Hills precursor Laguna Beach, they both battled over Stephen Colletti. And both bad girl Cavallari and the milder Conrad dated Brody Jenner.

“I saw her at the wrap party on Saturday and we caught up,” Cavallari told UsMagazine.com at Tuesday’s series finale party, explaining that they’re now cordial — but that’s about it.

“We are not going to lunch together and I don’t have her phone number, but we are cool.”

Cavallari is on chummier terms with fling-turned-friend Jenner. Jenner, 26, is now dating singer Avril Lavigne; Cavallari is seeing Miguel Medina, a cameraman from The Hills.

Have they double dated? “We haven’t yet, but we would,” she told Us. “Our friendship is the most important thing and I don’t think that anything will ever get in the way of that.”

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After six seasons of The Hills, it was the series’ final two minutes — when Brody Jenner was revealed to be on a soundstage rather than shooting from a real street corner — that perfectly defined the show’s hybrid of reality and scripted television, while also underscoring the viewers’ biggest burning question: Is this show for real?

“That will be the question that will live on forever. It is what it is,” says star Audrina Patridge. “You’ll see they were real-life situations that we all went through. But of course certain things are hyped and I can’t really say.”

“I think you always want to leave with the audience wanting a little bit more and I think when you watch the finale, you’ll definitely be like, ‘Is there going to be more?’ I think it’s the perfect time [to end],” series creator Adam DiVello told TVGuide.com at The Hills Live: A Hollywood Ending on Tuesday. “That’s also a part of leaving now, while it still has that mystique and people are still invested in it.”

“I think it’s still unbelievable all the attention that we received at the height of the show. I don’t think it ever really caught up with me,” Lauren Conrad says, more than a year after leaving the series. “It’s really cool to look back now at all the stuff we got to do. I was happy to be a part of it.”

As the series’ stars became more well known, they began to keep more of their private lives off-camera — most notably Conrad’s boyfriend, Kyle Howard, who never appeared on the show. Thus, producers were forced to get more involved. “Running around Costa Rica with cameras and trying to get Lauren and [Heidi Montag] together at a night club — it’s been a difficult but very enjoyable ride,” DiVello says.

Lo Bosworth, who also appeared with Conrad on Laguna Beach, The Hills‘ predecessor, says that, real or not, she hopes the viewers were able to find common ground with their MTV counterparts. “People talk about it how it was filmed and all of the drama, but I really hope that people remember it as a coming-of-age story and something that was truly relatable,” she says.

In the end, DiVello believes the most important thing is that true fans understood the show, even if they didn’t know just exactly what they were getting themselves into. “[The fans] just got what we were doing. They spent the half-hour each week with us and they just kind of enveloped themselves in the music and the B-roll and the stories we were telling,” he says.

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“The Hills” bid a fond farewell on Tuesday night with a somewhat surreal last scene, featuring Brody Jenner and Kristin Cavallari on what is revealed to be a fake Hollywood backdrop. But Jenner said there was an even more baffling ending planned, involving another of his exes.

He revealed to MTV News backstage at the aftershow party that it included some face time with Lauren Conrad, who did make an appearance on the aftershow.

“We filmed a couple different endings and we didn’t know which one they were gonna use. There were some other ones that were great as well,” Brody teased about the LC ending. “One of the other endings, Lauren was in it. She had come back into the show for the last episode. I come back home, and basically Lauren’s at my place [and I tell her about saying goodbye to a friend]. We filmed this whole lovey-dovey scene as if me and Lauren had been together this entire time. So it was another fun, cool ending. … I think they thought it would confuse the viewers.”

“That day of filming it was surreal to me because they wouldn’t tell me what we were filming,” he continued. “I think the show has always battled with what’s real and what’s fake, and this ending was perfect because you still don’t know what was real, what was fake and it’s kind of like L.A. in a sense. I thought it was very clever and I was happy with it. I was stoked they were ending it with me. I was flattered.”

So is it real? Well, yes and no. “I would say it’s entertainment and just enjoy it; don’t question it too much. There were a lot of moments that were real and a lot of moments that were not so real.”

Were you pleased with the ending? Would you have liked to have seen Lauren?

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Lauren Conrad memorably dissed Spencer Pratt as a “sucky person” in season two of The Hills.

Looking back, she says she wishes she would have chosen a different insult. “You know what, that’s so lame because I didn’t want to cuss on camera! So ‘sucky’ was the first word that came to my head and it follows me everywhere!” Conrad told UsMagazine.com at the Hollywood party to celebrate the series finale of The Hills Tuesday night. “Who says that? That’s not my favorite!” she added.

But Conrad, 24, says she has “no regrets” about leaving the show after its fifth season. “I’m happy when I left. I think it was the right time for me, and I mean, I probably have a million regrets about the stuff I did on the show! But I mean, just little stuff,” she told Us.

Conrad said it was “really cool” to appear on the reunion show (taped at The Roosevelt Hotel) alongside co-stars Audrina Patridge, Lo Bosworth, Stephanie Pratt and frenemy Kristin Cavallari. “I got to say goodbye a year ago to everybody, but this is kind of a nice opportunity. It’s so cool to be included.”

Up next for her? “I have a book tour starting Oct. 5, a style guide and the third novel in my L.A. Candy series, so that’ll be fun,” she told Us. She may even appear on TV again. “I don’t know! I am really happy where I am right now,” she said. “I love doing the books, I love doing the clothing line. It’s great, but I did enjoy doing television. I don’t think I’d ever do reality that involved around my personal life again! I think I got my fill!”

When asked if she was “sad” that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt weren’t invited to the finale party (Spencer held an impromptu press conference outside the hotel), Conrad joked, “Not for me! Um, I think that was the network’s decision.”

As for the series’ surprise ending, in which Brody Jenner and Cavallari tearfully say goodbye as the camera zooms out to reveal they’re shooting on a Hollywood lot, Conrad admits she didn’t watch it. “I actually didn’t see this season,” she told Us. “I watched my final episode and I really liked how it ended and that was when the show was done for me.”

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