Makeup How-Tos
How To: Create voluminous and loosely curly Hollywood starlet hair
When starlets like Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Aniston want to look glamorous and at their best on the red carpet, there are generally two hairstyles they turn to:
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: Apply black makeup MAC style
In order to apply MAC black style makeup, you'll need the following: primer, a black base, eye shadow, mascara, eyeliner, blush, lipstick, and a liquid liner.
How To: Create an Athena inspired golden goddess makeup look
Greek virgin goddess Athena presided over warfare, wisdom, the hunt, and crafts. Beautiful, powerful, and strong, she embodies equality and justice (Athens was even named after her!).
How To: Apply liquid foundation evenly using charged water
Even, natural-looking foundation that covers up redness and flaws but doesn't look caked on or fake is the desired basis of any makeup look. But it just so happens that the rudimentary skill of applying foundation evenly is one of the hardest for most women to master.
How To: Get a vampire inpired makeup look by Sephora
In order to create your own vampire inspired makeup look, you will need the following: false teeth, red lip tint, smoky eye shadow, mascara, eyeliner, foundation, and concealer.
How To: Apply sexy cheetah girl makeup for Halloween
In order to create a Cheetah girl makeup look for Halloween, you will need the following: a cheetah print scarf, pink and gold shadow, false eyelashes, foundation
How To: Do an Arabian peacock makeup look
In this tutorial, we learn how to do an Arabian peacock makeup look. First, add primer to the eyes, then apply yellow shadow on the inner crease of the eye. Then, take a lime green color and apply it next to the yellow, blending in on the edge. After this, apply a turquoise eyeshadow and pack it in to eliminate fall out. Blend this outward, blending with the other colors. Apply a piece of tape on the outer corner of the eye to create a cat eye. After this, apply a dark purple to the crease of...
How To: Create a Dias de las Muerto look for Halloween
Sarah teaches us how to do a Dias de las Muerto look for Halloween in this tutorial. First, apply a pure white makeup to the entire face, including the lips. After this, wipe makeup off from around the eyes and draw a circle around them, including the top of the eyebrows down to the top of the cheeks. Next, apply a black flower like shape over the circles you just created. After this, apply a dark green paint to the inside of the eyes, covering everything in them. Next, apply dots at the top ...
How To: Get a Cleopatra inspired makeup look by Sephora
In order to create a Cleopatra inspired makeup look, you will need the following: lipstick, eyebrow pencil, blush, bold eye shadows, and false eyelashes.
How To: Get Twilight New Moon Cullen inspired makeup
In this video, we learn how to get a Twilight New Moon Cullen inspired makeup look. First, take some red lipstick and make two red dots on the neck where you would have gotten bitten. Then, drag the lipstick down to make it look like blood going down the neck. After this, apply fake fangs to the teeth to give the ultimate vampire look. You can also apply a light foundation to the face to give yourself a pale glow, just like the Cullens have. You can take this further by applying dark eyeshado...
How To: Transform into a witch doctor for Halloween
In this video, we learn how to transform into a witch doctor for Halloween. Start by using a white foundation all over the face, avoiding the eye and eyebrow areas. After this, apply bronzer to the cheekbones. Next, apply a black or dark brown color on the entire eyes, smudging it on the edges. Next, apply brown lipstick on the lips and mark lines with black paint on it. When done with this, start to draw a tribal design on the chi, then underneath the nose. Define the cheekbones further with...
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.
How To: Apply a tiger mask with makeup for Halloween
In order to make a tiger mask with makeup for Halloween, you will need the following: moisturizer, white and black liner pencils, black liquid liner, eye shadows, blush, and lipstick.
How To: Learn makeup mask basics
In this tutorial, we learn makeup mask basics. If you're good with makeup, then you can try to freehand your mask. If you don't feel you can do this, you can make your own. To do this, fold a piece of paper in half and bring it on your face to mark the outline of the face. You can also purchase a mask from the store and apply it yourself. You can also cut a plastic mask to use as a reference and help shape the mask that you are creating. Whichever way you choose, make it unique and enjoy crea...
How To: Get a Megan Fox inspired makeup look fast & easy
In order to create your own Megan Fox inspired makeup look, you will need the following: liquid liner, primer, eyeliner, false eyelashes, mascara, eyebrow pencil, bronzer, blush, lip gloss, lipstick (brown and pink), and foundation.
How To: Steal Twilight's Nikki Reed New Moon makeup look
In this video, we learn how to steal Twilight's Nikki Reed New Moon makeup look. Start out with concealer underneath the eyes, then foundation over the entire face. Make sure it's a pale color to reduce the color of cheeks and regular skin. After this, apply a white shimmer color over the entire eyelid up to the eyebrow bone. Next, apply this color underneath the waterline, followed by a brown underneath the outer edge. Take a dark brown and brush it into the crease line, blending lightly wit...
How To: Apply MUFE face & body liquid makeup
In this video, we learn how to apply MUFE face & body liquid makeup. First, pour the foundation out onto your hand and then take your foundation brush and dip it into the liquid. After this, start to brush the makeup on your face, starting with the side of the forehead and working your way around. This is a gel based liquid, so it's going to stick onto your face extremely well, you won't have to apply a lot of it. When finished applying, use a damp sponge and press it on your face around wher...
How To: Wear smoky royal blue eyes with glasses
In this video, we learn how to wear smoky royal blue eyes with glasses. First, find the dark circles of your eyes and apply concealer to them to cover it up. Next, apply concealer to the face and define your eyebrows. After this, apply a silver shadow to the eyes, followed by a blue to the crease of the eye and on the inner corner. Apply a gray shadow to the crease of the eye, then take a bright blue shadow and blend it into the eyelid, avoiding the middle of the lid. Next, apply a black shad...
How To: Get a Hilary Duff imspired makeup look for ten dollars
In order to create a Hilary Duff inspired makeup look for $10, you will need the following: Maybelline's natural quad four smoke eye shadow, liquid eyeliner, face powder, terra cotta, fake eyelashes, mascara, and eyeliner.
How To: Apply and blend cream foundation for beginners
Even, natural-looking foundation that covers up redness and flaws but doesn't look caked on or fake is the desired basis of any makeup look. But it just so happens that the rudimentary skill of applying foundation evenly is one of the hardest for women to master.
How To: Create a soft and wearable daytime smokey eye for beginners
There exists a small set of makeup skills that is essential for your fashionable survival in the lipstick jungle: How to do the perfect red lip, how to shape and drawn in your brows, and how to do the perfect smokey eye. With these skills you'll be able to create a makeup look to suit any occasion, and we guarantee it.
How To: Create a smokey purple eye look with Kandee Johnson
The absolute hottest shade this fall for makeup is a deep eggplant or aubergine. At the Fall 2010 fashion shows, we saw models with purple smokey eyes or neutral lids and a deep berry lip. But however the color was worn, it was used by many makeup artists to add extra sultriness to the makeup look.
How To: Create an intense smokey eye inspired by Jersey Shore's Snooki
Okay, so there are lots of things about Jersey Shore's Snookie we wouldn't want to imitate. The fake bake (sorry, but we'd prefer not to have our face look like a Birkin bag at 40), the crazy bump it hair, and the shorter than short minidresses make us shudder more than watch in awe.
How To: Create a Miley Cyrus "Who Owns My Heart" video look
Teen pop star Miley Cyrus is not one to shy away from taking chances - in life and in fashion/makeup endeavors. Cyrus enjoys flaunting her bright eyes with shimmery shadows of gold, silver, and bronze, which contrast with her eye color in the most flattering way.
How To: Create a bright pink and white clubbing eye makeup look
When it comes to clubbing, it's hard to stand out makeup-wise. After all, when girls hit a club with their gal pals it's pretty much a given prerogative that they make their makeup look as sexy as possible and their hemlines as high as possible as there's fierce competition with other girls in the club.
How To: Conceal undereye circles/racoon eyes using a peach concealer
Let's face it ladies: All of us come with some baggage. While some of us have emotional baggage, we all have the physical kind: undereye baggage. This sagging and drooping of your undereye area is further aggravated by fine lines, wrinkles, and purple or blue circles. Ah, the loveliness of getting older.
How To: Create a sheer and flirty school picture day makeup look
You only get one picture day per year while you're in school. It only takes a minute or so, but the results of that one shot stay with you for life in the form of your yearbook. So instead of being the one girl who got too lazy to put on makeup and then sneezed in your photo shoot, turn up your game a little this year and be the perfect model for your picture. Makeup done for photograph purposes requires a bit of extra effort.
How To: Create a Kristen Stewart inspired nude smokey eye and pale lip look
Kristen Stewart is a tomboy in the fullest sense of the term, stepping out to run errands in Chucks, a t-shirt, and jeans while other stars waffle around in four inch heels and J Brand skinnies.
How To: Create a Fall 2010 runway inspired golden eye and plum lip look
The runways are not the likeliest of places to look for makeup trends that are immediately wearable (think the recent fashion show in Spain where models went bald and wore thinning gray beards), but this fall the overall makeup trend has been one that's surprisingly translatable off the runway.
How To: Reshape blunt, angular cheeks into rounded cheeks
Thanks to the anorexic waifs who predominate the modeling industry, we have been led to believe that blunt, so-sharp-you'll-cut-your-finger-on-them cheeks are the Holy Grail of cheekbone shapes. So many of us spend money purchasing bronzers and dusty rose blushes hoping to fake those cheekbones if we don't have them.
How To: Create a sexy Kim Kardashian smokey cat eye
With cheekbones so sharp they could slice your finger if you ran your hand over it, Kim Kardashian needs not a stitch of makeup to look like a total Grecian goddess. But because she's so skilled with emphasizing her own features with makeup, every time that she does wear makeup she looks fabulous. One of Kardashian's favorite looks is a smokey eye with pale lips.
How To: Create the make-up look from the Kesha music video "Take it Off
Did the world need another Lady Gaga? Apparently so. 2010 has brought us another techno-pop-starlet to love / hate: Kesha. She's become a fashion icon rather quickly, and this video will show you how you can use one of her looks yourself. Specifically, you'll learn how to create an approximation of the make-up look from the music video for "Take it Off".
How To: Do your eye makeup like Kesha from the video Blah Blah Blah
Kesha, love her or hate her, is statistically the most successful music artist of this decade, and she has become a full-fledged icon in a very short time. This video will show you how you can create the makeup look from the bowling alley scene in the music video for "Blah Blah Blah". If you like your eyes to be blue, there is no shortage of that here.
How To: Conceal ugly dark circles around your eyes with concealers
Fight the blues by getting rid of your bags under your eyes. It's time to stop looking depressed and looking fantastic, but for some, dark circles around the eyes can be genetic, which means it will be impossible to get rid of. And that's where concealer comes in. This video will show you how to battle the blues and cover those bags with orange and golden concealers.
How To: Create a bronzy smokey eye a la Kim Kardashian/Victoria's Secret
Did you know that the "Victoria's Secret" makeup look (you know, dark, sultry smokey eyes and nude lips) is the most often requested look at MAC counters and cosmetics counters everywhere? Okay, we're not entirely sure that's true, but every time we hit up MAC we always see girls getting primped with that same exact look.
How To: Create a mod and retro '60s makeup look
The sixties were an era of letting go of the cookie cutter past (gender stereotypes especially) and paving the way for newfound freedom in ideas about politics, beauty, religion, and really everything.
How To: Create a natural and neutral pink lip look
When does a nude lip NOT work? For us, that's never. Whether you're attending a fancy schmancy soiree at the Met or just hitting up your local shopping center for a Saturday of retail therapy, a nude, slightly pink lip looks good with any makeup and any outfit.
How To: Create Katy Perry's nude makeup look from "Teenage Dream"
Could Katy Perry look any hotter in her new music video for "Teenage Dream"? In the song, Perry sings about how the guy of her dreams thinks she's pretty without any makeup on, and as such she wears minimal makeup in the video. Just some simple neutral shadow and glossy pink lips are all she sports in every scene of the video, shot in her hometown of Santa Barbara.
How To: Create a unique green smokey eye look with Petrilude
Since when did everyone think that smokey eyes HAVE to be brown/black/silvery? While we love the way a murky brown smokey eye looks, there are so many more options out there if you want to do a smokey eye look but are bored of the usual colors.