August 25, 2010
in Makeup
Aside from their famous Photo Finish Primer, I’m not really a Smashbox girl. No real reason why, but wowza—that might change, because I had so much fun playing around with their new fall collection.
Now you know I’m not that much of a makeup junkie (well, aside from the fact that, like all beauty editors, I have an encyclopedic memory for beauty products—which I showed off the other night when I recited the name of a Clarins product from 2005). But THIS is makeup I can totally get into—yes, on a daily basis. It’s dramatic but still very wearable, and there are a couple of VERY cool little innovations.
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August 20, 2010
in Makeup
I might take issue with Angelina Jolie’s weight problem* (or lack thereof—will you LOOK at those skeletal, veiny arms?), but in the eye makeup department, she always, always nails it.
* Is she just skinny or is it something more sinister? If you read Blind Items Exposed, it’s definitely the latter…
But anyway! I’ve been trying—and failing, really—to replicate Ange’s feline, winged-out eyes for AGES now.
To the rescue: Toronto-based makeup artist David Goveia, whose concealer trick I mentioned yesterday and who is basically DA MAN when it comes to simple, subtle, easy makeup that is sort of barely detectable but instantly makes you look 1,000 times better.
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