Posted by admin on Sep 10, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

Last night Jacinda Barrett and I paid homage to old Hollywood allure at the premiere of Whiteout with a bright red lip color and I love how it turned out! Anyone can add instant glamour with a coat of red lipstick, as long as you keep everything else understated (I used a simple champagne powder on her lid, a nude blush and a few individual lashes). Jacinda...

Posted by admin on Aug 28, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

If you want to play up your eyes, rich dark browns and coppers are a beautiful and modern alternative to the traditional gray smokey eye. A favorite for achieving this look is NARS Duo Eye Shadow in Cordura. Here on my client Shantel VanSanten, I applied a bronzed-copper “wash of color” on her entire eyelid by wetting my brush with Ben Nye...

Posted by admin on Aug 12, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

Contouring is one of my favorite steps in applying make-up and always surprises me that for most women, it is often a skipped step. When you apply foundation to your entire face, you are creating a blank canvas, making it critical to go back and add the dimensions back in. Technically, contouring is about shadows and light; if you’ve ever taken an...

Posted by admin on Aug 2, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

There is nothing prettier to me than pale skin. Nothing. But this is a new view for me… My whole life I’ve been a bronzed beach girl and I’ve even learned to love my freckles, but after spending nine days on an international press tour with Cate Blanchett (unfortunately I didn’t get to work on her myself but loved working on her...

Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

For fun, Lauren Conrad sported a brown wig for this month’s issue of Harper’s BAZAAR. They called in the darling Ken Paves for his wig expertise and me for her signature make-up look, with a little more intensity. So I deepened her bronzer and blush and added a little more definition to her eyes. To do this, I used the same shades that I...