Leyes de Atracción ~ Vogue Latin America

I love this glamorous editorial 

in the January 2013 issue of Vogue Latin America

shot by GL Wood.

Leyes de Atraccion, Vogue Latin America

In a nod to Hollywood divas of old,

model Kasia is deeply contemplative

in divine wardrobe from stylist Anna Katsanis

and the moody romance of Alexa Rodulfo's 

gorgeous  hair and makeup

How To Do Your Makeup When You're Going To The Snow

Holla Sno-Bunnies!

The past couple of weeks I've been spending some time mountainside, and from what I've seen, we need a little snow-makeup-101.

It seems like girls go to one of two extremes when hitting the snow:

full makeup - which looks ridiculous, even if you are a super-celeb

or full blown commando (makeup, not undies) which unless you are a perfect nordic beauty

can leave you looking like one of the boys.

(And you are unlikely to have landed on my page if you want to look like one of the boys...)

Regardless of whether you are an alpine athlete or a chalet girl,

it doesn't hurt to look just right.

So check out this picture of my lovely friend, 

model Marlowe De Vonne.

(The Agency AZ)

Apart from the fact that she is staggeringly beautiful anyway,

Marlowe gets her snow makeup perfect, every time.

With this being the type of look we are going for, here is 

Snow Makeup 101

1. Moisturize (like crazy)

You will need much more moisturizer than normal when getting alpine. The high altitude will strip the moisture out of your skin in no time, so start the day by super moisturizing your skin, ideally with a heavier formulation than you use every day.

Your moisturizer will need extra time to soak in, so go do something else for a couple of minutes and let it really absorb.

2. Facial SPF

I can't say it enough, but a free standing facial SPF of no less than 30 is essential every day, and even more so when you hit the slopes. 

The air is thinner,  the altitude puts you in a far greater burn zone and sun damage zone. Even if you have an overcast day the sun's harmful rays are bouncing off the snow and into your beautiful face, wrecking all kinds of havoc, from a bad burn to super aging sun damage.

I always go with the highest SPF I can find, normally around SPF 85 to 100

There are some schools of thought that nothing is more effective than SPF 30 anyway, but they also used to recommend smoking to relax you during pregnancy, so I use the highest SPF for the face that I can find.

3. BB Cream (or CC Cream)

Foundation looks kinda crazy when you are at the snow. The multi faceted BB and CC creams make for the perfect solution. They give your skin some added treatment benefits, but also smooth out and even out skin tone, giving you the benefit of a foundation without the weighty-ness of it.

They last amazing all day long, and really give you the look of great skin rather than makeup.

4. Eyebrows  

Your eyebrows are so important - they not only frame your eyes, but give your visage dimension as well.

Makeup Forever Aqua Brow is an ideal option as it is waterproof, and will stay on all day, even if your snow-goggles are pressing up against it.

It is super, super concentrated, so use the tiniest amount.

5. Cream Blush

Not so that you look like you have makeup on, but just to sweeten your cheeks, and give you a slight flush.

Unlike a powder blush that sits on the surface of the skin, a cream blush will look like its your natural complexion.

6. Keep Your Eyes Simple

You will have sunglasses or snow-goggles on all day anyway, and a full eyemakeup looks a tad ridiculous.

If you are going with eyeshadow, opt for flat matte neutral shades that you can create dimension with, but not look over done. Keep liner minimal but build some good lashes with a water resistant mascara.

7. Lips 

The one thing you will really see is your mouth, and this is where you should draw focus.

Firstly use a really strong lip balm with SPF, and reapply it all day. Scaly, flaky, dried out or burnt lips are anything but kissable. In fact they look hideous. So keep your your lips protected and super moisturized all day.

Draw attention to your mouth with color. Red can be too vampy, and when the light bounces off the snow a red lip can look overly harsh. 

Instead seek out bold fucshia and magenta hues.

If those shades feel too intense, look at sunny pinks and corals (not pastel, not opaque). You need a color with life in it. Make sure the formulation isn't too matte and drying, but also not too glossy. Gooey glossy lips look silly up in the alps, and also can work like baby oil on the beach, and burn your lips like crazy.

Go girl...

image credit exclusively snow

Fei Fei Sun For Vogue Italia January 2013

The incomparable Fei Fei Sun

makes history as the first Asian model to cover

 Vogue Italia, in the January 2013 issue.

Fei Fei Sun cover Vogue Italia January 2013

Photographer Steven Meisel

channels a little Avedon in this sumptuous editorial,

with makeup perfection care of Pat McGrath

and immaculate hair by Guido.

It just doesn't get better than this.

What a way to start a new year...

Fei Fei

Fei Fei Sun by Steven Meisel

Fei Fei Sun Vogue Italia

Fei Fei Sun Vogue Italia

Fei Fei Sun by Steven Meisel

images courtesy of FGR

Hothouse Flowers ~ Vogue January 2013

I've been looking at this editorial 

in Vogue's January 2013 issue all morning.

It honestly just has everything.

Carolyn Murphy and Karen Elson by Steven Klein for Vogue Jan 2013

A fabulous take on spring's new,

modern and minimal look,

paired with prints, luxe fabrics and structured shapes.

Photographed by Steven Klein

and styled by arguably the greatest of them all,

Grace Coddington,

with phenominal makeup by Stephane Marais

and magnificent hair by Julien d'Ys,

models Karen Elson and Carolyn Murphy 

cavort through a brilliant and madcap story

of Hothouse Flowers.

I couldn't love it more... 

Karen Elson, Vogue Jan 2013, Hothouse Flowers

Hothouse Flowers Vogue January 2013

Hothouse Flowers, Steven Klein, Vogue January 2013

How To Line Your Entire Eye With Eyeliner ~ eHow.com

From the eHow.com series

How To Line Your Entire Eye With Eyeliner

image by Kelly Cappelli

1. Make sure the area has been cleansed and prepped.
I like to put a think veil of foundation and powder topped with eyeshadow primer and some eyeshadow.
Use a neutral matte shadow if you don't want your eyes to look like you have shadow on.
By prepping the eye area you are giving the liner something to grab on to, and to hold.
Eyeliner applied to bare skin is not likely to stay in place for very long.

Think about the shape of your eyes.
If you have small eyes, completely ringing the eye in eyeliner can actually make them look smaller.
If your eyes are set close together having eyeliner come all the way into the inner corners can make your eyes look as if they are even closer together.
If you have deep set eyes ringing them entirely in liner can make them look further recessed.

Sharpen your pencil, but not to a sharp point - it will just crumble when it makes contact with your skin.

Lie the pencil slightly onto it's side, and starting in the middle of the lash line make small feather like movements across the eye.
If you have small eyes, keep the line thin.
If you have close set eyes either fade the liner out before you get to the inner corner, or keep it very thin through the inner 1/3 of the eye.

Once you have the eye lined in pencil, take a liner brush like the Corinna B Angle Taklon Liner (CorinnaB.com) and an eyeshadow that matches your liner color (black shadow with black liner, brown with brown etc).
The first pass you make across the pencil liner helps to set the pencil so that it won't move. The subsequent passes can be used to buff the hard line of the liner and give you a more smudgy, lived in look.

Here's the video:

 

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How To Get Gel Eyeliner To Stay On All Day ~ eHow.com

From series of makeup tutorials I recently shot for
How to Keep My Eye Makeup From Disappearing -- powered by ehow

">eHow.com
How To Get Gel Eyeliner To Stay On All Day.

Its annoying when you put on your makeup in the morning, and by lunch time its mostly gone.
Here's how to make your gel eyeliner last all day.

1. Start with a well cleansed eye area. Make sure yesterday's mascara and eyeliner are completely cleansed away.
Use an eyecream or eye gel to moisturize and hydrate the area.

2. Apply a very thin veil of foundation to the eye area and powder it to set.

3. Apply a good quality eyeshadow primer. This combined with the foundation and powder in the previous step will give your eyeliner to bind onto and hold onto.

4. Apply eyeshadow. If you are going for a look that doesn't use eyeshadow, use a matte, neutral tone.
Again this gives the eyeliner something to bind onto and helps it to hold all day.

5. Use a good quality, synthetic eyeliner brush, like the Corinna B Angle Taklon Liner

6. Starting in the middle of the lash line using small, firm strokes, start applying your eyeliner.

7. Once the eyeliner has set, put on several coats of mascara.

Here is the video:

 

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How To Keep Eye Makeup From Disappearing ~ eHow.com

From the eHow.com makeup tutorial series

How To Keep Eye Makeup From Disappearing

image by Kelly Cappelli

When you apply your eye makeup in the morning, does it still look the same by lunchtime? What about by mid afternoon? Is it still looking as fresh and beautiful as when you first put it on?

There are a few tricks to making your eye makeup stay on all day.

image by Eric Cassee

1. Start with clean skin.
Make sure all of yesterday's eyemakeup, eyeliner and mascara have been completely removed.
Use an eye gel or eye cream specific to your skin type and hydrate your eye area.
(if the area is dry or under-hydrated makeup will grab to the skin and look blotchy and patchy, and also make you look old).

2. Apply a sheer veil of your foundation over the eye area. This helps to create a smooth, even canvas to work with. Set the foundation with a light coat of powder. If the foundation is not set, or if you don't use foundation, the eye shadows have nothing to grip onto, and will slip away as the day progresses.

3. Use an eye shadow primer. These will help the eye shadow to go on evenly and help it to bind nicely to the eyelid.Eye shadow primer also helps to get the color of your shadow to look really good and true.

4. Use a really good quality brush to apply your shadow. A good quality brush will pick up the shadow better, glide it across the eye without shedding it everywhere, and deposit the shadow into the skin much better, allowing it to stay all day.

I use badger hair brushes from my own line, available at CorinnaB.com

Here's the video:

 

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How To Prepare Your Skin For Early Morning Makeup ~ eHow.com

From the eHow.com tutorial series, here is one all about prepping your face for makeup when you have an early start to the day.

image courtesy of sparknotes.com

When you have to get up extra early in the morning it can be tricky to get your makeup to go on looking beautiful, and to stay on all day. 
Tired or stressed skin can eat makeup off in some areas , while other patches of your skin are dehydrated and grab hold of makeup, leaving it looking cakey and uneven.

Chances are if you have an early start your face and eyes might be a little puffy, and if you haven't had enough sleep your skin can look grey and lifeless.

 Whether you work in breakfast TV or just have to get up early, the steps to gorgeous are the same.

The eHow.com tutorial is at the bottom of this post

Step One: Cleanse your skin, but gently.
Give your skin a light cleanse to remove any surface oils or debris and to get it fresh for the new day. Use cool water, as this helps to wake the skin up.

Step Two: Keep your eye gel in the refridgerator.
Applying cool gel to puffy eyes not only hydrates them, but helps to wake up the skin and get rid of puffiness.

If your eyes are looking exhausted or puffy you can also apply a cool washcloth to the area, use a gel filled eye-mask that has been kept in the refrigerator over night, or use an eye treatment mask such as skynIceland's amazing Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels.

10 minutes with these on and your eyes are hydrated, the puffiness is gone, and the skin looks firm and toned. They are magic!


Step Three: Use a moisturizer that contains menthol and/or caffeine. These two ingredients wake the skin up and get the blood circulating, amking your complexion look radiant and glowing.

Step Four: Always use a facial SPF of 30 or higher (I use SPF 85) no matter what the weather is.
Facial SPFs protect your skin from sun induced cancers as well as from premature aging due to sun damage.
Only apply it to the parts you want to look pretty...

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Step Five: Use a good primer.
This will help your makeup to bind and hold, and to go on evenly.

Glittering Headbands ~ Madame Figaro

Isn't this just lovely??

Headbands in Madame Figaro

I meant to post it pre-Christmas

but time got away on me...

Anyway, its from Madame Figaro

for a story about the holiday season's headbands.

I'm not necessarily crazy about the headbands,

but how delicious is this makeup??

Its by makeup artist Regine Bedot.

So beautiful.

Photography by Alexandre Weinburger

Glittering Headbands, Madame Figaro

Glittering Headbands, Madame Figaro

Anne V for Harpers Bazaar Turkey

Harpers Bazaar Turkey kicks off the new year

with a stunning editorial starring

Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna

in a sun-drenched cover story

 of lust-worthy resortwear.

Anne Vyalitsyna for Harpers Bazaar Turkey January 2013

Photographed by the amazing Koray Birand

Anne helps us to escape from winter 

into bold color and sunshine, 

all tousled hair and red lipped perfection.

Anne

Anne V by Koray Birand for Harpers Bazaar Turkey