Hot Makeup How-Tos
How To: Apply and blend eyeshadow
In this video, we learn how to apply and blend eyeshadow. First, you want to start by adding a primer to your eyelids. Now, use a large brush to brush a light shadow onto your entire eyelid. After this, use a smaller brush to brush a lighter shadow onto the inner crease of your eye and underneath the eyebrow. After this, use a brush to apply a dark shadow to the outer crease of the eye, then blend with the lighter shade. Next, paint a darker color on the outer v of the eye and continue to ble...
How To: Create a shocking Cirque Du Soleil makeup look
Halloween is coming sooner than you think; have you decided what you're going to dress up as yet? While going with the wicked witch or sexy black cat route is always fun and unfailingly cute, the easy choice quickly becomes the dull one, especially if you're essentially worn the same costume time after time.
How To: Create a sparkly silver Ice Queen makeup look
What happened to those carefree days in our childhood when we didn't care how we looked and slapped on our mother's makeup, completely out of the lines, drawing and doodling on our face just because it was fun? These days, putting on makeup is all about making impressions. Going to the office? Slap on some neutral, non-intimindating shadow and pretty but not too sexy lipstick. Going to the club? Go a bit smokier with the eyes to try outdo all the other girls there and get the guy.
How To: Create Angelina Jolie's "SALT" cat eye makeup look
Angelina Jolie's action flick "SALT" has been steamrolled at the box office by Christopher Nolan's dream world thriller "Inception," but the picture has many merits that make it deserving of your hard-earned money the next time you hit the movie theater.
How To: Do an easy neutral bridal makeup look for the modern bride
Too many brides make the mistake of trying to go all out for a wedding. While some things come better bigger: snagging your dream location - a huge, 400 person capacity church - or dream dress - a poufy, whipped creation with an uber long train and layers and layers of tulle - going overboard with your makeup is a recipe for disaster.
How To: Get a baby doll-inspired makeup look
In this tutorial, we learn how to get a baby doll inspired makeup look. First, apply primer to the eyes, then outline your eyes with white eyeliner in the shape you want your eyes to be. Next, use black liner to outline around the white that you just applied, then a brush to blend it out. After this, use a shimmery white color to highlight underneath the brows, then brush a purple over the black liner to make it a softer color. Next, apply more white to the areas that you originally drew the ...
How To: Apply general face makeup
In this tutorial, we learn how to apply general face makeup. First, apply lotion and primer to your face before you place anything else on your face. To apply your foundation, use a foundation brush and blend together different colors of foundation. Start by applying the foundation to your face in any way that you prefer. After this, apply concealer underneath your eyes that is the same color as your skin. Use a shadow brush to blend eyeshadow onto your eyes and make sure you groom your eyebr...
How To: Create Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" pinup makeup look
What's so fun - and risque - about Katy Perry is that she makes as big a fashion statement with her clothes on as she does with her clothes off. Recently, the chanteuse has been engaging in lots of photo shoots and music videos in which she's worn little more than her charming smile and a wildly colored blue or purple wig.
How To: Create a simple and bold teal blue eye makeup look
Eye makeup doesn't have to be super complicated or take half an afternoon to do in order to be bold and beautiful. In fact, there are many ways you can simplify your makeup routine, cut out colors, and save time while still making your eyes pop.
How To: Create a sultry Kylie Minogue makeup look
While international pop star Kylie Minogue was blessed with perfectly sculpted cheekbones, beautiful eyes, and princess-like blond hair, her beauty routine is something we can all learn from. While, unfortunately, the chanteuse herself is not in this makeup tutorial, her #1 UK look alike is.
How To: Create a Kristen Stewart smokey eye look from "Allure" magazine
Kristen Stewart is a well known tomboy who really doesn't care whether she's wearing Chanel or Target when she's out and about. But the sister knows how to glam it up big time on the red carpet and for photo shoots, where she brings out her hidden sultry, feminine side.
How To: Create a bold green Sour Skittles makeup look
We all love our go-to neutral makeup colors: they're the basis of our makeup collection and, like an LBD, look good no matter how bloated we feel - and look - and no matter what the occasion. But as Cyndi Lauper famously said in her song, sometimes "girls just wanna have fun."
How To: Create a seductive Aphrodite makeup look with reds and golds
You should try on this makeup look because we simply can't think of any reason why you WOULDN'T want to look like Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sex. And seeing as how she rules supreme over these three categories, she is usually portrayed as being very beautiful and attractive. In other words, her milkshake would beyond the shadow of a doubt bring all the boys to the yard.
How To: Do daily work makeup for any job
You work five days a week, and each day you try, try and try again to get the perfect makeup. Once you find that perfect look, it's your go-to makeup style for not just work, but any everyday, routine event. Well, this video tutorial might be your answer. See how this girl applies her daily work makeup that she pretty much uses every day.
How To: Create a gyaru (gal) inspired big dolly-eyed makeup look
Most of you probably don't even know what gyaru means. It's a Japanese transliteration of the English word "gal". If you're not sure what transliteration means, you'll have to look that one up yourself.
How To: Create a simple "Old Hollywood, New Year's Eve" makeup look
This makeup look is inspired by the celebrities of "old Hollywood" and is perfect for any New Year's Eve celebration. If you're going on for New Year's, this is a great festive look. Sure, you can wear this makeup look whenever you want, but it may be a bit too much for everyday use. Give it a try. Follow the step-by-step instructions.
How To: Get the perfect foundation for your face's skin type
Having trouble finding the right foundation for your makeup creations? The trick is, you need to know about them first, and know about your skin type, in order to get the perfect match. This video will help you decipher your foundation makeup issues and find the perfect one. Visit Hoppy's Makeup for more information.
How To: Do easy prom make up for any dress
JulieG gives you the low-down on an easy prom makeup look. This video will show you how to put on a great makeup look with minimal fuss. In this video, the easygoing prom makeup look can be worn with just about any prom dress, whether it's girly and sparkly, or shiny and sexy. Just follow along with JulieG and you'll be shining like the belle of the ball in no time at all!
How To: Apply chic makeup for glasses
In this cool makeup how-to video, the awesome Michelle Phan shows you how you can still wear makeup and look great with glasses. In this video, you'll find out how you can makeup work for you even if you have to wear frames, and look chic and stylish at the same time! Just watch and follow along with Michelle Phan.
How To: Do a Kim Kardashian double winged liner eye makeup look
In this video, you'll learn how to get the Kim Kardashian double-winged liner makeup look. This makeup look is very unique and will definitely be turning heads everywhere you go. Wear it for a fun night out with the girls, or for a special and romantic date. The gorgeous Miss Jessica Harlow will walk you through each step of the way.
How To: Give yourself a blood red eye makeup look
Try out these colors for fun - red, burgundy, black and smoke-ish colors for a hot blood-red look. Petrilude walks you through this amazing and gorgeous blood red makeup look. Pair it with a red dress that will leave your date hot with lust and passion.
How To: Tight line your eyes with pencil
In this makeup tutorial, Petrilude gives you the lowdown on tight-lining your eyes with pencil. Petrilude does this so he can get the look of a darker lash line, and give himself the appearance of denser lashes. It still doesn't take away lid space, so there's plenty of room still to play with colors on the eyelids. Try it out yourself!
How To: Create a wearable Taylor Swift makeup look
Who doesn't want to resemble Taylor Swift? But a lot of times her looks are reserved for the red carpet, and who goes out looking like that every night? In this video, you'll be shown how to create a wearable Taylor Swift makeup look, perfect for casual dates, and hanging out. Just follow xsparkage's directions and you'll be sitting pretty in no time at all!
How To: Give yourself a outer space inspired look
In this video, Petrilude shows us how to an outer-space inspired look. It's actually a little shocking. You may want to save this look for your next costume or Halloween party. Just follow along, and Petrilude will take you through the look, step by step with a little surprise at the end.
How To: Apply an Avril Lavigne inspired makeup look
In this makeup how-to tutorial, the divine Lauren Luke does it again. In this video, Lauren Luke shows you how to put on an Avril Lavigne inspired underground look. Who doesn't want to look like Avril Lavigne? Just follow along and you'll be rocking out like Lavigne in no time at all!
How To: Line your heavy lid or hooded eye
Do you have heavy eyelids or hooded eyes? In this video, Enkoremakeup shows you some cool tricks and tips to make the most of your eyes. Just follow along with him and watch the video. You'll be sitting pretty in no time at all!
How To: Create a sweet and pretty birthday makeup look
There are certain days in life on which you are practically required by law to look your best: Your wedding, major holidays when portraits are being taken, and your birthdays.
How To: Remove fake nails painlessly with acetone
Fake nails can be such a pain in the butt. Yeah, they look good when they're on (they're one of the few things that look perfect when we wake up, unlike our face and hair), but removing them inevitably leaves nail scratches, stubby, ugly nails, and causes pain.
How To: Create an exotic Bollywood/Arabic makeup look
Ever since "Slumdog Millionaire," Bollywood has taken up space as its own niche in Hollywood films, and continues to grow in popularity as fans visit the films for their splendor, magnificently decadent production, and dresses and makeup that make the women look like walking gods.
How To: Create a rich purple eyes makeup style in 5 minutes
Love purple? Then this purple-filled eyeshadow style is sure to rock your boat. Croatian photographer Marina Filipovic Marinshe sets aside her usual fashion, portrait and art photographs, and brings you this makeup tutorial for recreating her rich purple eyes look. Check it out. You won't be sorry.
How To: Create a "Pretty in Pink" full face makeup look
Croatian photographer Marina Filipovic Marinshe sets aside her usual fashion, portrait and art photographs to delve into the world of makeup tutorials! In this video, she shows you her "Pretty in Pink" full face makeup look, with lots of pink!
How To: Create a "True Blood" Bon Temps swamp makeup look
Out in Bon Temps, the town in which "True Blood" takes place, everything you thought couldn't exist comes alive. Vampires and werewolves roam the town, so is it any surprise that the Bon Temps swamp is a character all its own? While not a living and breathing character, the swamp provides a murky, dark backdrop for the show's most harrowing scenes. And in that sense, it tells you a lot more about the characters than you'd get just out of their performance.
How To: Color match and apply Luminess Air airbrush makeup
Photo retouchers can do a lot with Photoshop, from making a so-so gal look like a model to virtually applying makeup and cleaning up ugly cellulite. But don't you wish you could look perfectly airbrushed at the first take?
How To: Symmetrically wing your eyeliner
Red Bull isn't the only thing that gives you wings. In fact, you can don a pair of wings yourself by painting on winged cat liner on your eyelids. Winged liner is a coveted makeup look because it helps to lengthen and enlarge small eyes, make close set eyes appear farther apart, creates the illusion of more eyelashes, and gives you a sultry siren look. For such a simple tool it produces amazing, face-changing results.
How To: Create a bold Linda Evangelista 1990s makeup look
At the height of her career, Linda Evangelista was one of the big three: Claudia, Christy, and Linda. The early 1990s were officially known as the Age of the Supermodel, and boy did these women know how to get glam both on and off the catwalk. Big hair and big egos combined to form women who refused to go anywhere without a full face of makeup and whom never had a single hair out of place.
How To: Define your eyebrows to frame your face
If eyes are the windows to your soul then eyebrows are the gatekeepers. Keep your peepers' bodyguards in tip top shape by spic and spanning them with a perfect shape and filling them in with brow powder.
How To: Get Angelina Jolie's sultry "SALT" makeup look
Angelina Jolie is our hero. After all, she is a humanitarian, a loving mother of six, an Oscar-winning actress, and as of yet the only female actress out there who can play a usually male-centric spy role and be an action movie star without any sort of gender bias. Oh yeah, and she's the most gorgeous woman in the world.
How To: Apply dramatic smoky gray eyes with pink lips
In this tutorial, we learn how to apply a smoky eye look with pink lip gloss. To begin, apply a primer underneath your eye and throughout your entire eyelid. After this, apply a blue shimmer eyeshadow to the entire eyelid over your primer coat. After this, blend a pink color onto the crease of the eye and around the upper lid. Next, apply a light blue eyeshadow to the inner crease of the eye, blending it out towards the outer corner. When finished, use a brush to blend a dark blue on the outs...
How To: Apply 80's-inspired eyeshadow
In this tutorial, we learn how to apply 80's inspired eyeshadow. First, use a frosty white base color on the eyelid. This was a popular color back then, that was also popular in the 90's. Apply more and more of this while blending it out under the brow to keep it highlighted. If you want more, then keep adding as much as you'd like. The darker your skin the more potently this will go on. Take a little bit of this shadow and go underneath the eyes as well for a highlight. Next, you can apply a...
How To: Get makeup for your green, purple / black prom dress
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a green and purple makeup look to wear with a black dress. First, apply a primer to your eyes that matches your skin color. After this, apply a bright yellow pigment to the entire eyelid. Once you are done with this, take loose green glitter and brush it onto your eyelid, brushing on the outside and inside first, then blending together. After this, take a black eyeshadow and blend it into the crease of the eye around the side and inside. Then, apply gl...