Award Season Glamour!

With Awards Season pretty much in full swing now, the stars were out in their glad rags strutting their stuff on the red carpet for this year's Baftas last night, my favourite look of the evening was Sienna Miller's Classic Hollywood Glamour which is huge this season.





5 Top Tips on how to get this look -

1 - Matte Foundation to give a flawless finish (Try Chanel's Mat Lumiere)
2 - Black Liner, use a liquid on the top lash line to get a striking look (Try Guerlain's Divinora Eye-Liner - Very easy to use, almost does all the hard work for you!) . Take this in gradual stages from the inner to the outer corners, keep your hand steady by resting your elbow on a table while applying. For Depth on the Bottom Lash Line go for a powder finsh in Black (Try Guerlain's Terracotta Loose Powder Kohl), again easy to use & apply. Also just to note before the liner is applied, use eyeshadow obviously, but just opt for a nude natural base across the entire lid, your liner should do all the work for this look.
3 - False EyeLashes, to finish of this dramatic look, apply some false strip lashes (Try Mac's False Lash Strips)
4 - Bronzer, for a warm & glamorous glow to the cheeks go for a deep bronzer (Try Lancome's Star Bronzer)
5 - Red Lips, final finishing touch for the hollywood glamour look (Try Mac Red)

Neon Lips!

Hot new looks from this season's latest cat walk trends, neon bright lips to do all the talking!!




Get Mac's Lipmix in Orange (£10.50), hottest colour this season, get it quick before it flies off the shelves completely!!

Hot Pink Lips!

New this season is Shocking Pink lipstick, a great beauty statement to make in 2008! One golden rule though, don't match with a your favourite pink outfit, stick to neautrals like black or go for the daring look & clash with red, recently tried out by make-up goddess Sophie Ellis-Bexter!

Perfect Matte!

Get the ultimate matte look with Maybelline's new Dream Matte Powder (£6.99), while some matte powders can be heavy this gives a soft matte finish, feels light on the skin & doesn't cause any build up that can make your skin look lifeless. Get it quick as it's starting to sell out fast in the shops!

Urban Decay

Get Urban Decay Survival Kit (£22), it has all their most popular items & all you need to look ultra chic - 4 Eyeshadows all in funky shades that glitter & shimmer which will be sure to make your eyes stand out!
Also includes their EyeShadow Primer Lotion, a little genie in a bottle that keeps your eyeshadow colour on all day with no creasing (a miracle indeed!!), plus mascara & eyepencil, and as if that wasn't enough Lip Gloss & their Greedy Lip Envy too - what more could a girl ask for!!!

Contouring Makes a Come a Back!!!

Contouring has been around for a long time & is used in TV/Film as well as Fashion Shows & Photoshoots, it basically will enhance the features you want & disguise those you don't want as well as giving depth to your features too. Both Stila & Mac have just released their brand new contouring kits & this technique is set to become a lot more popular at the cosmetic counters this year!

Stila's new Face Contouring Trio kit comes with 3 shades, a light shade for highlighting, a dark shade for the shading & a middle shade for shimmer.
A quick basic way to add defintion to your cheek bones is to take your powder brush & in the hollow of you cheek (the soft part under your cheek bone)& lightly blend the dark shade in this area, then take the light shade as your highlighter along the top of your cheek bone & blend both thoroughly together by taking a little more of the highlighter & in light circular movements go over the whole cheek area to soften the look. Lastly take the medium colour (or flash colour as they call it) & blend this over the apple of your cheek, to find this, smile & apply to the fleshy part of your cheek. This will give a lot more defintion to your face structure & can trick the eye, making others believe you have high cheek bones worthy of the front cover of vogue!!!!
You can also narrow your nose, simply take the dark shade on each side of your nose, make sure you belend this to give a very soft finish, then with the highlighter blend down the bridge of your nose. There are some diagrams below to help show how to do this, the tip that I can't stress enough is to blend thoroughly using soft circular movements!!!!



Macs version 'Sculpt & Shape' uses the same idea but with 2 colours rather than 3 but they come ina range of shades so suitable for really pale skins, so follow the instructions as above....

Brand New From Benefit!

Just out from Benefit is their new blush powder "Thrrrob', a great new colour for Spring & gives a healthy pink flush to the skin!
This has only been released over in the US just now but is available on www.benefitcosmetics.com.