It helps you stay steady in the Tree pose, and is the key to gorgeous, natural-looking makeup. Choose your focus – the lips, lids or cheeks – and then follow our pro moves for striking results.
It helps you stay steady in the Tree pose, and is the key to gorgeous, natural-looking makeup. Choose your focus – the lips, lids or cheeks – and then follow our pro moves for striking results.
SMOKY LIDS + BRONZED SKIN
You want to hit the sweet spot between done and undone, says Nars Director of Pro Artistry Rachel Goodwin. Done: these intense smoky eyes. Undone: a barely-there lip and a dusting of bronzer. “That little dash of bronzer is the secret sauce,” says Jenny Patinkin, a makeup artist in Chicago. “It contrasts with the cool tones of both the charcoal shadow and milky-pink lip gloss to make your skin look alive.”
BOLD LIPS + FULL BROWS
When your red lip game is this strong, it dominates your face. Let it. Cancel out competing colours in the rest of your skin with a colour corrector – green reduces redness and broken capillaries; yellow covers dullness in olive skin tones; orange hides bluish dark circles; lavender cancels out sallowness. Cover your handiwork with concealer or foundation, then swop blush for a champagne highlighter. Lastly, flick a brow crayon through your eyebrows to draw a bit of the focus upwards.
WARM CHEEKS + COOL LIDS
Corals and peaches bring a healthy radiance to your cheeks and lips. “On the eyes, however, they can draw attention to redness,” explains Jenny. The solution: Counterbalance warm colours with cool ones. “Warm colours are anything you’d see in a fire: orange, red, gold, peach,” Jenny says. “Cool colours put out a fire: blue, green, sand, ash.” Off setting coral blush and peach lip balm with a stroke of grey eyeliner will showcase your glowy skin and add some sexy smoulder.
PHOTOGRAPHY CLAIRE BENOIST
STYLING ALMA MELENDEZ/HALLEY RESOURCES
