In 2011, you've vowed to be effortlessly fabulous and while the perfect outfit is very important, your makeup simply cannot be ignored. After all, your face is the first thing people see and you deserve to look and feel gorgeous.
Just because the holiday celebrations are over does not mean that the glam should stop. During the Year of the Single Woman, we want you to be show-stopping and ready for your close-up at all times!
"How do you do that?," you ask.
Great question!
We've got one of NYC's hottest makeup artists, Ericka Tapia, to give you all tips you need to make everywhere your Prada pumps touch your own personal red carpet!
Now a word of caution before we move forward, when going for Hollywood worthy glam, many of us make the big mistake of over doing our makeup.
Always remember, less is more!
For example, if you plan on rocking a bright or sequin dress, you want to play down your makeup. If you’re opting to go simple—a classic little black dress for instance, then you can play up your makeup with bold colors and even a little glitter.
We at The Singles’ Salon have scoured the net for some of the latest celebrity makeup looks to inspire you to get in touch with your inner superstar this year!
Now because we believe in total beauty, on the inside and out, there are some very important, fundamental steps you must take to prep your skin before we'll even tell you how to glam out your makeup.
Begin by moisturizing your skin and conditioning your lips (find a facial moisturizer and a lip balm you love and use them religiously).
Evenly apply your foundation all over your face. Be sure to blend in any hard edges or lines.
Next, apply concealer to any blemishes or scars for ultimate coverage.
Next, lightly dust translucent powder over your entire face- emphasis on the lightly.
Finally, brush your brows with a spoolie and fill in any areas where needed with a shade appropriate eyebrow liner.
Now for the fun part!
Follow these easy instructions and be picture perfect and ready for your close up all 2011 long!
Kim Kardashian’s Infamous Smokey Eye
2. Use a small eye shadow brush to soften the edges of the eye line.
3. Use a dark shadow with a smudge brush to go over the penciled area and smudge—this will also set the eye liner.
4. Apply a lighter shadow preferably in a neutral tone encircling the entire eye to soften—to give a perfect blended smokey eye.
5. Curl your lashes and apply black mascara on top and bottom lashes.
6. Apply a peach-toned colored blush to the apples of your cheeks and stroke the brush along your cheekbone towards your ear.
7. Apply a nude gloss to your lips.
Keri Hilson’s Sultry Lavender Eye
1. Apply an eye base primer.
2. Use a vibrant, satin lavender eye shadow color and apply from the lash line to your eye crease. Leave brow bone bare.
3. Use black eyeliner on your top lash line and your water line and take a smudge brush with some of the purple/lavender eye shadow to smudge underneath your lash line.
4. Curl your lashes and apply black mascara on the bottom and top lashes.
5. Apply a shimmer peach or pink colored blush to the apples of your cheeks and stroke the blush brush along your cheekbone towards your ear.
6. Color your lips with a nude or light brown gloss.
Christina Aguilera’s Classic Red Lip
1. Apply an eye base primer.
2. Use a light brown matte eye shadow and brush the color over your eyelids.
3. Use black eyeliner on your top lash line only! Use white eye liner for your water line.
4. Curl your lashes and apply black mascara to the top. Apply a strip of false lashes and reapply mascara only to the top lashes to blend in the false lashes with your real lashes.
5. Apply a very faint pink blush to the apples of your cheeks and stroke the brush along your cheekbone towards your ear.
6. Line your lips with a red lip liner and fill in with a rich red lipstick. Add gloss.
Eva Mendes’s Fierce Cat Eye
1. Line your top lash line with a black liner and wing out the corners of your eye to give yourself the cat wing.
2. Use the same black eyeliner to gently line your lash line.
3. Curl your lashes and apply black mascara on the top and bottom.
4. Apply a pink blush to the apples of your cheeks and stroke the blush brush along your cheekbone towards your ear.
5. Apply a soft peach lipstick to your lips.
Rihanna’s Lashes and Wine Stained Lips
1. Apply an eye base primer.
2. Pick a natural color eye shadow and apply it from your lash line to right above your crease.
3. Line both your top and lower lash lines with a black eye liner.
4. Curl your lashes and apply black mascara, then apply a strip of false lashes from the inner corner of the eye to the outer corner of the eye. Reapply mascara to blend the false lashes with your natural lashes.
5. Apply a pink colored blush to the apples of your cheeks and stroke the blush brush along your cheekbone towards your ear.
6. Line your lips with a wine colored lip pencil, then fill in the lip with the same lip pencil to stain the lips, next use a deep red matte lipstick to go over the lips.
Well, there you are singlelistas! Superstar glamour for a superstar you!
Now, the only thing left for you to do is pose for the camera.
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To learn more about how you can get your glam on, visit www.ErickaTapia.com for a personal beauty consultation.
Love life...every SINGLE moment of it!
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