Copy Kat Dennings's Red Lip and Loose Waves

Copy Kat Dennings's Red Lip and Loose Waves

At London premiere of Thor: The Dark World, Kat Dennings gave us a lesson in classic beauty, teaming a creamy red lip with perfect skin; bold brows; neutral eye shadow; and soft, modern waves in her hair. It's an easy look to copy provided you go slowly, starting with a matte base to ensure your skin looks as flawless as possible. Fill your brows in next, and then build up a light smoky eye using mid-browns and shimmering pale bronze. Top with plenty of black mascara, and then turn your attention to those lips. A lip liner is essential to keep red lipstick in place; use it all over the lips instead of just around the edges, and it'll act like a glue for the colour itself (plus, you'll never end up with visible lip line if the lipstick wears off). Apply the lipstick in two coats, blotting in between. As for your hair, use a wide-barrel tong or iron to create natural-looking waves on sections of various sizes, or, if you're lucky enough to have naturally wavy hair, let it dry naturally, and use Kerastase gloss appeal to smooth away any frizz. 

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Metallic Summer Trend

Metallic Trend Alert

This week was packed with par­ties and pre­mieres, so we kept our eyes on all of the red car­pet hap­pen­ings to fill you in on the trends that are on the rise —

 

 

Shim­mery metal­lics: The hol­i­day sea­son doesn’t start for anoth­er month or so, but it looks like celebs are already test-driving shiny party looks. This week alone, Eva Lon­go­ria donned a cop­per num­ber, Mandy Moore sport­ed a shiny black frock and Kelly Osborne wore a sil­ver sheath. You can count on see­ing sim­i­lar­ly shim­mery styles until just after New Year’s Eve.

Whether its a sheer sweep of eye shadow or a shinycoat of nail polish, silver is the perfect edgy accent for day and night….

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

 

1. Start with a metallic silver eyeshadow over the whole lid.

2. Apply a small amount of dark eyeshadow to the outer corners of the lid.

 

3. Using a pencil brush, use the same dark eyeliner and continue the dark line underneath the eye.

4. Use a very bright white metallic eyeshadow to brighten up the inner corners of the eye.

5. Add a coat of mascara, and voila!

 

even ghd have gone mettalic for summer check out their new irons below.

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Taylor Swift's Sexy Rolling Stone Cover Get her look

Taylor Swifts Smokey eye on Rolling Stone Cover 

Taylor Swift

How to get her look and what not to do: 

We love them. You only have to google “smokey eye” and you’ll see hundreds of thousands of blog posts and YouTube Vids showing you how to create the look, so obviously you love them too!

It’s easy to create but it’s also very easy to get wrong!! As these two starlet’s prove….erm, must have lost the blending brush!

So we’ll show you how to get the perfect Smokey Eye look in just four easy steps. The colour choice is only limited by your imagination!

But first some valuble tips:

Put your foundation on last! Its a messy business creating a Smokey Eye so better to apply your eye products first, then finish with your foundation application after.

No shadow on the top part of the eye lid. The colour should be all around your eye and not going beyond the eyelid crease, unless you have very heavy lids as seen in the pics below. Resist the urge to highlight the upper lid, you’ll look like Drag Queen! Unless of course you are a Drag Queen, then highlight away!

Blend, blend and blend some more. It’s called smokey because it looks like a puff of smoke, it’s not called “Racoon Eyes” or “Plastic from Binocula Eyes”. Think heavy with soft edges.

This is what it will look like if you don’t blend….

This is what it will look like if you do it right….

Notice her lips are very pale? Remember the golden rule; If the eyes are loud, tell the lips to be quiet.

What you’ll need:

ELES Powder Liner in any colour

ELES Mineral Matte Eye Shadow in any darkish colour, we are using Matte Twig

ELES Lush Mascara in Black

Optional – False Eyelashes

STEP ONE: Eyes should be primed and a light layer of foundation and powder applied to help the Eye Shadow bond to the eye.

STEP TWO: Using the Powder Liner apply a generous, deep line around the entire eye contour then blend with the soft rubber tip at the end of the pencil until you have a nice thick smudgy line.

STEP THREE: Press your chosen Eye Shadow into the line and begin blending out, adding more shadow to get a deeper hue. it should be darker towards the lash line and blending out to lighter on the edges, keep applying and blending until you have the desired effect, something like this…

NOTE: The eye above is heavy lidded in other words, the natural eye crease is very low. If this is the case you may apply the shadow slightly above the crease. If they eyes are not heavy lidded try to stay below the crease with only a soft blending appearing above.

STEP FOUR: Optional – Apply False Eyelashes to the top lashline. Apply several coats of Lush Mascara to the top and bottom lashes.

Voila….The Smokey Eye!

And remember, you don’t have to do it this dark, a lighter colour can be used for a softer effect.

Why do we love it?

The eye whites look whiter and the iris of the eye “pops” with vivid colour….

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