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How To: Create a Japanese dolly inspired makeup look
If you've ever been to the Harajuku district of Japan then you know that nothing is off limits to Japanese girls (and sometimes guys) when it comes to makeup. Whether they're dolled up in the Lolita style or the slightly racist Ganguro style (in which girls dress up as black-faced "average American teenager"), makeup shows off each person's personality.
How To: Do your makeup like Lacey Mosley of Flyleaf
This punk rock look was inspired by rocker Lacey Mosley of the band Flyleaf. Lacey is tough as nails and looks the part. If you are looking for a rock and roll party look and want to stand out, this is the look for you. You will be ready to jump on stage in no time!
How To: Get a Zelda fairy inspired makeup look for cheap
Attention Zelda fans! Get a Zelda-inspired makeup look with a little help from this two-part makeup video tutorial! This look is great for a fancy costume event or next Halloween. In part one, makeup application to the eyes is gone over. In part two, learn how to apply makeup to your lips and how to create those famous pointy ears.
How To: Choose the right eye makeup to accent your eye color
Accentuate eye color by choosing the right eye makeup and blending three eye shadows together. Learn the eye shadow colors to make each eye color pop in this free video from a professional makeup artist.
How To: Remove Makeup the easy way
It's fun to put on makeup. IT's not fun to take makeup off. This tutorial video will show you how to get rid off all those products on your face.
How To: Apply makeup like Tyra Banks
Learn how to go from washed-face to fabulous in just 5 minutes with Tyra Bank's own personal make-up routine!
How To: Apply an instant faux nose piercing
This tutorial video will show you how to create the illusion that you have a pierced nose! This fake piercing looks great, too, if you're wanting to see how you would look with a pierced nose, ear(s), the Marilyn, etc.
How To: Create an '80s punk rock chick makeup look
Despite being well known as the Era of Homogenously Bad Taste, the '80s have recently been referenced by high end designers (think Marc Jacobs), movies (think "Sex and the City 2"), and makeup artists (think the strong fuchsia lips that are in right now).
How To: Style a messy hair ponytail with a bump
Follow along as we are given instructions on how to style a messy ponytail with a bump for a quick on the go look.
How To: Restore your makeup brushes
Here's a quick video on how to fix makeup brush fly-aways or bristle curling.
How To: Do the PacMan arm wave dance move
In this tutorial, learn how to perform the PacMan arm wave and make your body look like it's turned to rubber! This dance was created by Phillip "PacMan" Cbeeb and is one of the coolest there is.
How To: Create a "Harry Potter" Hermione Granger makeup look
Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" series, is actually a lot like the character she embodies. Both are quite intelligent (Watson just finished her freshman year at Brown), strong, and independent, and both rely on minimal makeup to enhance their features.
How To: Apply makeup after age 60 and look younger
Ronnie from Hollywood makeup secrets shows older women (Specifically 60 years and up) how to apply makeup and look young. She starts off with the tip that woman need to moisturize the face before applying foundation. She uses a liquid foundation that is used to moisturize and smooth out wrinkles in the face. The foundation is also applied to the eyelids to smooth out the veins on the eyelids. She then applies concealer that was warmed on her hand to the inner corner under the eyes. After appl...
How To: Create a sexy wench/pirate makeup look for Halloween
Ahoy, landlubber! Next to vampires and werewolves, seafaring pirates are going to be the most popular costumes this Halloween. And luckily, you don't need to pillage or plunder in order to prove your scoundrel worthiness.
How To: Put professional finishing touches on face charts for makeup artists
If you think about it, your face is just another canvas, with makeup being the paint. You add highlights here to bring parts you want to emphasize forward, bronzer there to create fake shadows, and draw on patches of color (lips) or lines (eyes) to make things either pop or recess.
How To: Create a Carrie Bradshaw Sex & the City makeup look
This video shows you how to create a Carrie Bradshaw Sex and the City makeup inspired look. This is a great light pink look, try it and hit the town tonight.
How To: Get an Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction look
Uma Thurman's character Mia Wallace from "Pulp Fiction" is one of cinema's most iconic faces. Every single person who has seen Quentin Tarentino's masterpiece remembers Mia's dance scene with John Travolta or the part where she gets the giant needle to the chest. This character is bold, beautiful and perfectly pulp.
How To: Apply makeup using a shader brush for beginners
Shading, whether it's for eyeshadow, blush, or bronzer, is one of the indispensible makeup skills you'll be using for the rest of your makeup doing career.
How To: Create a Princess Fiona from "Shrek" green makeup look
Are you totally blue that Shrek is leaving us after movie number 4? Well, why not turn that blue face into a big green one? Check out this tutorial and be the best looking ogre in the cinema.
How To: Get Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" big eye makeup look
The world has gone Lady Gaga MAD! Run for cover! ... But run for cover in STYLE with this makeup tutorial by makeup master, Michelle Phan. In this video, Phan re-creates the "big eye" look for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" music video.
How To: Transfer eyeshadow into a palette
Here's a quick, easy, and safe way of depotting your favorite eyeshadow or blush without burning your fingers or inhaling toxic fumes from melting plastic. Remember, safety first- so be careful when handling sharp objects.
How To: Create a princess perfect Sleeping Beauty makeup look for Halloween
Sleeping Beauty is hands down one of our favorite original Disney princesses. After all, she wore our favorite color - pink - on her clothing and dresses, had long, beautiful blond locks and looked like Christmas morning.
How To: Do Captain Jack Sparrow's makeup from "Pirates of the Caribbean"
Don't adjust ye goggles - that is indeed Kandee the makeup artist garbed as the marauding swain Jack Sparrow from Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean."
How To: Make lip gloss look like fake blood
To make lip gloss look like fake blood you will need a tub of red eyeshadow, clear lip gloss, black eyeliner and red lip liner pencil. First dab a little bit of lip gloss onto your hand. Color red lip liner around the lip gloss blob. Then, flake the red eye shadow into the mixture and stir it up. Add a little bit of black eyeliner or mascara for a darker color. Apply the fake makeup blood to your desired area by caking it on. You can also use your black eyeliner to provide a wound shading bas...
How To: Do forest fairy sprite/wood nymph Halloween makeup
This makeup palette is the Forest Fairy Sprite Wood Nymph created by MissChievious. Begin with regular foundation. Get a little dark gold and golden cream eyeshadow with a knife & mix it into foundation. Take a large makeup blush type brush & put green shadow around top & sides of forehead blending it up into hairline & around the sides of face, continuing slightly onto the cheek hollows as you might do a light contouring. Take golden cream & dark gold & mix them before applying to center of ...
How To: Apply gold and brown eye makeup look
Learn how to apply this shimmery gold and brown eye look with this makeup tutorial. The following cosmetics were used for this look L'Oreal HiP Bustling Duo, L'Oreal HiP Cream Liner in Black, NYX Shadow in Dark Brown, NYX eyeliner pencil in black, L'Oreal Hip in Tickling, NYX lip pencil in Natural and NYX lip gloss in Lollipop. This is a great daytime or evening look. Watch this how to video and you will be able to create this gold and brown eye makeup look.
How To: Do Gel Nails at Home!
This article is for anyone wanting to learn how to do gel nails at home. Although it is easy. It is time consuming, so be prepared to have at least 30 minutes to do all the steps. We chose to do gel nails with a french press tip.
How To: Use Eyebrow Stencils
Eyebrows are made to frame your eyes. See how well-shaped and defined eyebrows creates a huge difference to one's face? Yeah, but most of the time, girls experience a hard time creating the perfect outline that would complement their eye shape and defining while making it look even is another story. This tutorial will help you (if you are experiencing eyebrow hurrahs as well) :
How To: Create a sexy and flirty ladybug look for Halloween
This lady sure won't bug you, or anyone who lays eyes on your adorable costume. With just the right about of cuteness and sexiness, this ladybug makeup look makes your skin glow with bright red lips and a flush right at the temples.
How To: Make it look like you have slashed wrists
Want an extra creepy and gritty costume for this Halloween? Make yourself look like you have slashed wrists! This tutorial uses Cinema Secrets slashed wrists kit, and shows you how to apply it for the maximum creepy impact at your next party.
How To: Apply furry (and surprisingly realistic) Care Bear makeup for Halloween
The Care Bears have stood the test of time, from their first appearance on greeting cards, to cutesy, plush teddy bears, to animated television series, to adventure-filled movies. The Care Bears may be long gone from television, but not from out hearts (especially Sara Griffith's of SharksBiteOfLife).
How To: Apply the Mad Hatter Johnny Depp costume makeup
In this video, we learn how to apply the Mad Hatter Johnny Depp costume makeup with Kandee. Start off by applying white makeup to the face so your skin color doesn't show through. Once this is covering your face completely, take a light blue pencil and apply it to the eyelids up until you reach the crease. After this, apply powder blue shadow over the top of it as well. Apply pink shadow underneath the eyes until you reach the top of the cheek. Brush a purple shadow in the lower lash line bru...
How To: Make fake six pack abs using makeup
Go out on the beach with confidence this summer, even if you haven't had the time to hit the gym. In this tutorial, learn a cool shortcut to six pack abs using makeup! These techniques are exactly what the stars do whenever they wear something revealing, so try this out and look like a celeb in your bikini this year!
How To: Apply a Bette Davis inspired makeup look
Goldiestarling presents you this video where she does a make-up inspired by late Bette Davis was a Hollywood actress. She says that Bette Davis is her all time favorite actress and she loved her from her high school days. She says the Bette was a very strong lady even in her real life and if you Google on her or watch her movies, you too will like her. This make-up she has done she says is based on Bette's character in the movie called 'Of Human Bondage' in which she plays a waitress and late...
How To: Be the Queen of Hearts from "Alice in Wonderland" for Halloween
In this video by amazing make-up artist, Kandee Johnson, we learn how to apply the make-up and costume of character, Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. Specifically, Johnson develops the character look from the newer Tim Burton re-make of the movie, the Queen of Hearts played by Helena Bonham Carter. In this tutorial, Kandee shows how to cover eyebrows, apply white face, and apply those heart-shaped lips!
How To: Prime your face for makeup
Learn how to prepare you face for applying makeup. Watch this video and learn how to make your makeup last all day.
Review: Copper Peptides Serum for Acne Scars and Wrinkles
Hey dolls! I have to share the secret of Copper peptides with you all. I don't know why it's taken me so long to jump on this band wagon because the science and studies behind the product are amazing!
How To: Create an Easy Drag Makeup Look
An easy and very simple "Drag" Makeup Look that would switch your shy, little girl personality into a fierce, bold scene stealer. This makeup look is inspired by the famous drag queen herself: Manila Luzon.
How To: Create a sexy peacock makeup look for Halloween
Just because it's Halloween doesn't mean you have to dress up as something gory or creepy. Inject some pretty into the spooky holiday by donning a peacock costume, and check out this makeup video to learn how to create a lovely peacock makeup look.
How To: Get Nene Leakes from Real Housewives of Atlanta's look
In order to re-create Nene Leake's glitter eye makeup look from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you will need the following: lipstick, blush, false eyelashes, eye shadow, primer, foundation, tape, powder, glitter, eyebrow pencil, lip gloss, lip liner, and black eyeliner.