Makeup How To
 Subtle smoky eye
2. Sweep a white powder shadow over your eyelid. Using a wide shadow brush, apply a white powder shadow from your lashline to directly underneath your brow bone. Chantal used MAC Eye Shadow in “Gesso.”
3. Create an ombre effect at the inner corner of your eyes with a white cream shadow.With a flat synthetic shadow brush, bump up the intensity of the white shade at the inner “V” of your eyes, from lashline to crease, to the halfway point on your eyelid. Chantal used Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream shadow in “Snow.”
4. Add some smoke with a brownish-gray shadow. Using a regular eye shadow brush, blend the dark shadow at the outer corner of your eye only, making sure to diffuse it so it isn’t too intense. Then, dust the same shade along your lower lashline two-thirds of the way in from the outer corner of your eye. Chantal used MAC Cosmetics Eye Shadow in “Embark.”
5. Wing it out. Line your top lashline with black gel liner and slightly wing it out at the outer corner of your eye. Chantal used Lorac PRO Cream Eyeliner in “Black” here.
6. Line the upper and lower inner rim of your eyes with black eye pencil. Chantal usedL’Oreal Paris Extra-Intense Liquid Pencil Eyeliner in “Black.”
2. Swirl blush onto your cheeks. With a blush brush, sweep a coral-colored blush that’s universally flattering on the apples of your cheeks up toward your temples. Try Revlon Powder Blush in “Classy Coral.”
3. Line your upper lashline with black eyeliner and then smudge it for a smoky effect.Choose a black liner like the one used here: Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner Pencil in “Black,” which comes equipped with a smudger on the opposite end. Once you’ve lined your upper lashline, diffuse the line with the sponge tip up toward the crease of your eye, creating a subtle smoky effect.
4. Run a jade-colored liner along your lower lashline. This color is still in the darker color family, but gives your eye a fun pop of color that’s perfect for a night out. Try Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner in “Jade.”
5. Apply a pink hue over your lips. Balance your strong eye with a soft-colored lip crayon like the one used here: Revlon ColorBurst Lacquer Balm in “Ingenue.”
Tools you’ll need:
1. Foundation
2. Stippling brush
3. Coral-colored blush
4. Blush brush
5. Black eye pencil with a smudger on the opposite end
6. Jade-colored eye pencil
7. Soft pink-colored lip crayon
Beautiful Black Smoky Eye
1. Line your eyes with a black gel liner, and then smudge it. Line your upper and lower eyelids with L’Oreal Paris Infallible Gel Lacquer Liner in “Blackest Black” and softly smudge it out.
2. Swipe on brown gel liner. Next, trace your lower lash line with a brown gel liner, like L’Oreal Paris Infallible Gel Lacquer Liner in “Bronze”.
3. Pat brown shimmery powder on top of your eyelid. Model Masiah used the deepest brown shadow shade in the L’Oreal Paris Colour Riche Eyeshadow Palette in “Good Luck Charm” and blended it over top of the liner.
4. Add a champagne-colored shadow to your brow bone. Dust a champagne-colored shadow, like one from the L’Oreal Paris Colour Riche Eyeshadow Palette in “Good Luck Charm” on your brow bone.
Finish by applying L’Oreal Paris Voluminous Million Lashes Mascara in “Carbon Black” onto your lashes, and voil!
Pretty Interview Makeup
2. Press an olive-bronze shadow across your eyelids. Begin lightly brushing a shimmer eyeshadow such as Revlon ColorStay ShadowLinks Eyeshadow in “Moss” over your entire eyelid. Then, blend it out over the crease of your eye.
3. Warm your cheeks with blush. Grab a fluffy blush brush and a bright pink blush such as Revlon ColorStay Powder Blush in “Haute Pink.” Then, begin blending the blush on the apples of your cheeks and then outward toward your temples. If you can’t find the apples of your cheeks, try smiling slightly so the rounded parts of your cheeks are more visible.
4. Finish with a subtle pink lip color. For an interview, give your lips a fun color, but keep it simple. A matte lip balm in a natural pink shade such as Revlon ColorStay ColorBurst Matte Balm in “Elusive” is just the right amount of color. First, line your lips, and then fill them in completely.
Add a coat of mascara, and you’re done! Now go nail the interview, and then pin, Instagram, and tweet out your pretty, professional look.
On the model: Blue and Black Pleated Dress, SANDRO, $375; Black Blazer, ZARA, $80
Tools you’ll need:
1. Foundation
2. Bronze eyeshadow with pearl shimmer
3. Light pink blush
4. Pink lip color
Golden Goodess Makeup How-To
2. Pat on bronzer and then blend it. Using clean fingertips first, pat on a liquid bronzer, like Revlon PhotoReady Skinlights Face Illuminator in “Bronze Light,” along your hairline, on the tops of your cheekbones, and along your jawline. Then take a bronzer brush, and on the right side of your face, follow a “3” shape, starting at your hairline, bringing the brush down and in to cover your cheekbones, and then back out and down along your jawline. This technique mimics where the sun would naturally highlight. On the left side of your face, do the same, creating an “E” formation, and then dust the excess product down your nose.
3. Press gold cream eye shadow onto your eyelids. Run your pointer fingertip over a gold cream shadow, and then apply it from your lash line all the way past the crease of your eye to create your base color and give a pop of shimmer to your eye. Try the gold shade in the Revlon Illuminance Creme Eyeshadow Palette in “Precious Metals.”
4. Line your upper and lower lash lines with a golden-bronze eyeliner. This gives your eyes dimension and a subtle shimmer along your lashes. Try Revlon ColorStay Eye Liner in “Topaz.”
5. Trace your crease with eyeliner and create two triangles to give a dual smoky effect.Using a black eyeliner pencil, like Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner in “Black,” draw a line that follows your crease, starting at the inner corner of your eye to the outer corner, and then create a small triangle at the inner corner of your eye and a larger one at the outer corner. Next, buff the color with a stiff, domed eye shadow brush to create a smoky effect. Then coat your lashes with mascara, like Revlon Bold Lacquer Length + Volume Mascara.
6. Finish your look with a gold lip. First, swipe on golden-bronze balm, like Revlon Colorburst Lacquer Balm in “Coy,” and then pat on a pressed gold eye shadow, like Revlon ColorStay Shadowlinks Eyeshadow in “Gold.”
Boom, you’ve officially reached golden goddess status. Now go get your girls’ night out on, but don’t forget to pin, Instagram, and tweet out your gorgeous gilded look.
On the model: Gold Strapless Dress, Badgley Mischka via Rent the Runway
Tools you’ll need:
1. Foundation
2. Foundation brush
3. Liquid bronzer
4. Gold cream eye shadow
5. Golden-bronze eyeliner
6. Black eyeliner
7. Domed blending eye shadow brush
8. Mascara
9. Lip balm
10. Gold eye shadow
Killer Copper Cat Eye
2. Sweep on copper shadow. Dampen an angled brush in water (this intensifies the shadow shade), run it over a copper eye shadow, like Revlon ColorStay Shadowlinks Metallic Eyeshadow in “Copper,”and then outline the brown liquid liner on your eyelid.
3. Line your lower lash line with copper and black eyeliner. Apply one like Revlon ColorStay Eye Liner in “Topaz” just under the lower lash line, and then run a black liner, such as Revlon ColorStay Eye Liner in “Black,” on the waterline.
4. Finish by filling in your brows. To really frame your face and finish your eye look, fill in any sparse spots in your arches with a brow pencil that is one shade lighter than your natural brow hair color. Revlon Brow Fantasy in “Dark Brown” was used here.
On the model: Wrap Dress, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Tools you’ll need:
1. Brown liquid liner
2. Copper eye shadow
3. Copper eyeliner
4. Black eyeliner
5. Brow pencil
Flirty Flushed Cheeks
2. Apply cream blush to the apples of your cheeks. Clean off the foundation brush you used in step one and run it over a cream blush formula. Then smile and blend the color on the rounded part of your cheeks first, and then outward toward your temples. Lizzie used Maybelline Master Glaze Glistening Blush Stick in “Pink Fever.”
3. With a large, fluffy brush, dust on a bright powder blush. Choose a bright powder blush that complements your cream blush, and apply it with a fluffy blush brush (don’t worry if it’s too bright; you’ll make it look more natural with the next step). Lizzie used the UBU Super Softy Brush to apply Mac Cosmetics Powder Blush in “Full Fuchsia.”
4. Diffuse your cheek color with concealer. Draw an outward-facing flag shape with a cream concealer pen on each side of your nose, with the flagpole part alongside your nose. Lizzie used YSL Touche Eclat. Next, with the clean foundation brush used in steps one and two, blend the concealer over the innermost edges of the blush. Then, with whatever concealer that’s still on the brush, lightly sweep the rest of the formula over your cheeks to create a “lit from within” flushed effect.
Pro tip: When there is a pop of color on the cheek, it’s best to keep the rest of the face seemingly bare. Choose soft or nude lips, neutral (if any) eye shadow, and a subtle application of mascara.
Tools you’ll need:
1. Liquid foundation
2. Foundation brush
3. Cream blush
4. Powder blush
5. Blush brush
6. Concealer pen
Sexy Standout Eyes
2. Create a smoky effect with black eyeshadow. Using an eyeshadow brush, dust black eyeshadow along your lash line and from the midway point of your upper eyelid to the outer corner of your eye to give your lid depth. Used here was Revlon ColorStay Shadowlinks Pearl Eyeshadow in “Onyx.”
3. Define your lash line with black liner. Make your eyes stand out even more by defining the inner rims and your upper and lower lash lines with a black liner, like Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner in “Black.”
4. Add mascara. To make your lashes look as long and thick as possible, apply several coats of mascara, like Revlon Bold Lacquer Mascara in “Blackest Black.”
Finally, swipe on a coral-colored lip color, like Revlon ColorStay Ultimate Suede Lipstick from the Cruise Collection, and go!
Tools you’ll need:
1. Nude shimmer eye shadow
2. Gunmetal eye shadow
3. Black eyeliner
4. Black mascara
Perfectly Defined Red Lips
1. Perfect your Cupid’s bow. Draw an “X” on your top lip so the top of the “X” frames your cupid’s bow. Dinara used Revlon Colorstay Lipliner in “Red” to create the “X” and then line the rest of her top lip.
2. Line your bottom lip.
3. Fill in your lips using the same liner. If your lip liner doesn’t exactly match your lip gloss, fill your lips in all the way to create an even base underneath the gloss.
4. Finish with a super shiny red gloss. Dinara used the Revlon ColorStay Moisture Stain in “Shanghai Sizzle” to coat her lips.
On the model: Black-and-White Crop Top, NASTY GAL, $62
Tools you’ll need:
1. Red lip liner
2. Super shiny red lip gloss
Beautiful, Bold Purple Pout
1. Line your lips. Line the perimeter of your lips with Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner in “Black.” This will give them a slightly gradated, chic look.
2. Smudge the liner. Buff the liner using your clean fingertip, so it diffuses a bit and doesn’t look so harsh.
3. Apple a purple matte lip color. Apply Revlon ColorBurst Matte Balm in “Shameless” over your lips for a bold finish.
4. Blot with tissue. Blotting with a tissue and reapplying the shade again enhances the longevity of your lip color.
Tools you’ll need:
1. Black liner
2. Matte purple lip color
3. One tissue
How-To Apply False Lashes
1. Measure the false lashes to your eye. After you’ve put on your eye shadow, but before you put on your eyeliner, align the false eyelash strip against your lash line to make sure they aren’t too long. Erica used Lola V Vagabond #807 lashes.
2. Cut your lashes. If your falsies are a little bit longer than your lash line, trim them from the outer corner always, since there are tinier hairs toward the inner corner that are meant to gradually fade into the longer hairs as you move toward the outer corner of the false lash.
3. Line the lash band with lash glue. Run a black adhesive glue (this type is the best because it dries black and blends in with your black eyeliner seamlessly) over the band of your lashes where they’re joined together. Erica used Ardell Duo Eyelash Adhesive in “Black.”
4. Let the glue dry a little. For the quickest and strongest application, you want to make sure the glue is a bit tacky before you put it along your lash line. The best way is to hold the lashes with tweezers and lightly blow on the glue or fan the lash before applying it for five seconds (count one-one thousand, two-two thousand, etc.). That way, when you put the strip on, it will instantly adhere to your eyelid skin, instead of sliding around on your lash line before it grips.
5. Apply the lashes. Position the tweezers at the center of the false lash and lay the strip onto your lash line. Use your fingers to apply pressure against the band, so they’re as tight against your lash line as possible.
6. Fuse your false lashes with your natural ones to make them look real. Take your pointer finger and thumb and gently pinch your false and real lashes together so that they blend.
7. Add mascara. Apply mascara over your lashes to lock your real and fake lashes together and to make them stand out even more.
8. Line your eyes. Erica used L’Oreal Paris Extra Intense Liquie Pencil Eye Liner to define her lash line and also blend in the black glue for a seamless finish.
Tools you’ll need:
1. False lashes
2. Scissors
3. Lash glue
4. Tweezers
5. Mascara
How To Create A Crease
1. Prep your eyelid with primer. Since you’re creating the illusion of a crease, you need something to anchor the colored shadow you’re about to put on and prevent the product from traveling. Primer, likeEyeshadow Primer Potion by Urban Decay, will help lock your look in place.
2. Sweep an eye shadow shade that matches your skin tone over your eyelid. This creates an even and flat base that will then create contrast and dimension when you apply the deeper shadow shades. Model and Cosmopolitan.com’s copy editor Heeseung used MAC Cosmetics Eye Shadow in “Blanc Type.”
3. Gently use the back end of a makeup brush (or your fingertip) to feel where the ball of the eye ends and the brow bone begins. Where those two points meet is where you’re going to create depth. You’ll also use the arch of your eyeball as your guide to make the perfect crease line.
4. Apply a light shimmery shadow from your lash line to where your crease will go. This creates the illusion of depth, so when you apply a darker shadow in the crease, the lower lid will appear like it’s more forward. Heeseung used MAC Cosmetics Pigments in “Vanilla.”
5. Use the pointy tip of an eye shadow brush to build the shape of the crease. Using a slanted shadow brush, sweep the tip over a darker-colored shadow of your choice, and then, looking straight ahead, apply it with one smooth, arc-like motion from the outer corner of your eye, stopping at the opposite side of your iris to avoid closing off your eye. Heeseung used a matte brown-bronze shadow, like Nars Cosmetics Single Eye Shadow in “Bali,” and Lancome Round Angled Shadow Brush #23.
6. Buff out the hard line. With a windshield-wiper motion and a fluffy eye shadow brush, like theBobbi Brown Eye Blender Brush, again start from the outer corner and blend back and forth to the opposite side of your iris to diffuse any harsh lines.
7. Line your upper and lower lash lines with the same powder shadow you used in step five. Using a slant tip liner brush, start at the outer corner at both the top and bottom lash lines to further enhance the shape of your eye.
8. Finish by applying mascara in a soft brown color to soften the look. Try Clinique Lash Power Mascara Long-Wearing Formula in “Dark Chocolate.”
Pretty Pink Pastel Lips
1. Condition and line. Condition your lips first to help hydrate any cracked, dry spots. Then line your lips with a clear lip liner — this will keep the lip color you’re about to apply from bleeding. Here, Lizzie Power, owner of Awoke Vintage, a clothing story in Brooklyn, applied No More Bleeding Lips along the perimeter of her mouth.
2. Fill in your lips with a pink lip liner. Lizzie used Estee Lauder Lip Pencil in “Pink Writer.”
3. Create a chalky-pink lip color. Mix a peachy-pink lip color with a nude one to make an opaque shade. Here, Lizzie combined Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in “Femme,” a peachy-pink shade, with MAC Cosmetics Cream Color Base in “Nude.”
4. Pump up the color. Press a hot pink blush, like NYX Cosmetics Powder Blush in “Matte Hot Pink,”over your lips with a flat makeup brush to set the shade and give it a matte finish.
5. Pat on some SPF and make your lips pop by applying concealer around your mouth.Lizzie used a zinc-based SPF, like Sun Bum Sunscreen, to give that opaque pastel finish to her lips, and then cleaned up the areas around her mouth with a concealer, like Cle de Peau Beaute Concealer, to make her lip color pop.
Matte Skin How-To
1.Prep your skin. First, cleanse, tone, and moisturize your skin, so your makeup goes on easier and lasts longer. Then, apply a matte primer over your T-zone to give you extra mattifying protection in that area, since it’s the oiliest spot on your face. Charlotte swiped on MAC Cosmetics Matte.
2. Break out the matte BB cream. Apply a matte BB cream all over your face using your fingers to warm the formula and really work it into your skin. Use no more than a pea-size amount because you don’t want the makeup to look heavy and caked on. Try Rimmel London Matte BB Cream, which Charlotte applied in “Light.”
3.Add a bit of concealer. If you need extra coverage, apply concealer to touch up any problem areas, like dark circles or a blemish. “You always want to apply concealer after you’ve put on your base to avoid using too much concealer,” Piggott says. Charlotte used YSL Touch Eclat concealer.
4. Set your concealer. Sweep a transculent powder, like Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder, underneath your eyes only, since the concealer can get greasy in that area. This not only sets the concealer, but also has light reflective properties so it brightens the eyes.
5. Dab a bit of matte blush onto the apples of your cheeks. In keeping with the matte theme, use a cream blush with a matte finish (or a powder), so your look doesn’t fade by 4 p.m. And go for a natural shade of blush, such as Rimmel London Stay Blushed Liquid Cheek Tint in “Peach,” so you’re left with a soft flush. Do not top your your matte skin with a shiny blush, because it will make your cheeks look greasy.
6. Finish with lip balm. Apply a flesh-toned lip balm to your mouth for a beautiful, natural-looking lip and to complete your fresh-faced matte skin. Try Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant.
Gunmetal & Gold Eyes
1. Apply a gold cream shadow over your eyelids. Your favorite golden crease-free formula will do, but model Charlotte Palermino usedRimmel London Scandal Eyes Eye Shadow Paint in “Golden Bronze” here. Simply use the applicator to sweep the gold shadow over your eyelid area, and then use your finger to blend.
2. Trace the area underneath your lower lashes with a gunmetal-colored shadow. Blend it in using a domed eye shadow brush. Try Benefit Cosmetics Creaseleass Cream Eyeshadow in “Strut.”
3. Run black eyeliner along your waterline and over top of your lower lash line. Charlotte used MAC Eyeliner in “Smolder,” and then she smudged the liner with the same domed brush used in step two. Piggott also suggests skipping liner on your top lid to avoid making the look too Cleopatra-like.
4. Finish with mascara. Using a curved mascara wand, which helps shape the eye perfectly, lightly wiggle the bristles up and out from root to tip. “You want the lashes to be spiky and loaded up with mascara,” Piggott says. “It’s a worn-in, slept-in look.” Be sure to apply mascara to the top and bottom lashes. Charlotte used Rimmel London Scandal Eyes Rockin’ Curves in “Extreme”
Aquamarine Eyes
1. Apply gold shadow to the inner corners of your eyes. To instantly make your eyes stand out, use a contouring eyeshadow brush to apply a pop of gold shimmer onto the inner “V” corner of your eyes. Here, model Valerin Johnson usedRouge Bunny Rouge Loose Glitter Pigment in “Sleeping Under a Mandarin Tree.”
2. Swipe teal shadow over your eyelid. Using a flat eyeshadow brush, sweep a teal shadow with an irridescent mermaid-like finish over your eyelid, keeping the color away from the crease of your eye. To get the cat eye effect, bring the shadow out to a “V” point toward the outer corner of your eye. For precision, use the tips of the eyeshadow brush to create the flick shape. Val used Rouge Bunny Rouge Loose Glitter Pigment in “Spun from Sunny Seawater.” Then, using the ends of the same eyeshadow brush, apply the same shade along your lower lash line.
3. Deepen the crease with black liner. To make the crease pop, trace the crease of your eye with a black liner, like Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in “Zero,” and then run it on your inner upper and lower waterlines for a more dramatic look.
4. Smudge the shadow. Create a smokier look with a black eyeshadow in the crease, like MAC Eyeshadow in “Carbon,” using a pointy eyeshadow brush, like MAC Cosmetics 210 Precise Eyeliner Brush.
Smokey Eyes & Dark Lips
1. Line your eyes. Start by lining your eyes with a black eyeliner along your top and bottom lashlines and inside your waterline. Try Josie Maran Black Eyeliner.
2. Add dimension to your eyelid. Using a chocolate brown eyeshadow, like MAC Cosmetics Eyeshadow in Brun, brush the color over your lid using a contouring eyeshadow brush, then smudge the same shadow shade along your lower lashline.
3. Sweep shadow into the crease. Apply a brownish-champagne-colored eyeshadow to the brow bone using a fluffy brush and work it into the crease to diffuse any hard lines. Try CoverGirl Eye Enhancers 1-Kit Shadows in “Tapestry Taupe.”
4. Line and fill in your lips. To finish this allover dark look, line and fill in your lips with brown lip liner, like MAC Cosmetics Lip Pencil in “Boldly Bare.” Finish by applying Aquaphor over the lip liner to give it some sheen.
1. Prime your eyelids. Using a sheer coat of soft white or light grey eye shadow and a fluffy eye shadow brush, apply a wash of eye shadow as your base from your lash line to crease. Founder of Electric Picks Jewelry Mj Barton used MAC Eye Shadow in “Gesso.”
2. Add depth with medium gray shadow. Swipe a medium gray-colored eye shadow into the crease and over the outer corner of your eye with a contouring eye shadow brush to instantly add dimension and create a smoky effect. Mj used MAC Eye Shadow in “Scene.”
3. Trace your lash line with eye shadow. With the same eye shadow and brush you used in step two, trace your lower lash line to add depth.
4. Add a shimmery dark silver shadow to the outer corner of your eye. Dust a gunmetal-shaded shadow from the center of your eyelid out toward the outer corner of your eye using a flat brush. Mj used Victoria’s Secret Pro Magic FX Hypegloss Eye Shimmer in “Nightlights and Starlights.”
5. Apply black glitter to the outer half of the eyelid. To take your look to the next level,pat black glitter (Mj used Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Glitter in “Blaylock”) over the outer corner of your eye with the same flat tip brush you used in step four.Don’t worry, it will stick to the Hypergloss eye shadow you just applied, so it shouldn’t fall all over your face; however, if it does, lift any extra glitter away by creating a bubble with some masking tape. If you want to apply glitter to your eyes but didn’t just use the Hypergloss, mix the glitter with a cream shadow before applying it to your eyes to make it stick. Lastly, run a metallic silver liner along your waterline, and add mascara. Mj used L’Oreal HiP Color Chrome eyeliner in “Silver Lightning.”