Golden Globes 2009

Every year I drool over the gowns, jewels, shoes, hair, and makeup at the Golden Globes. This year is no exception. Here are some of my favorites.





Lately, Angelina Jolie has this amazing glow about her and is always sporting simple and clean hair and makeup. She looks classy and elegant, as always.






Anne Hathaway's dress and earrings are absolutely gorgeous! And her skin is so milky and fabulous!




Freida Pinto's dress mixes elegance with bohemian, and looks great with her olive and chocolate coloring. I also love her soft, romantic hair and makeup.




Wow, I didn't even recognize Megan Fox at first! Her usual bright pout and flowing hair is replaced with an updo and nude look...and her blue eyes just pop!




There were a lot of mermaid, ruffled skirts on the red carpet, but Sandra Bullock's was one of the few that caught my eye. Her loose waves are the perfect complement to the sleekness of the bodice.




Another ruffled, mermaid dress! Isla Fisher is adorable, and she definitely knows how to dress. The nude taupe looks so good against her skin and strawberry hair, and her makeup is very subtle yet pretty. I recently had the pleasure of attending a preview screening of "Confessions of a Shopaholic," and she is so hilarious and cute! I don't usually like watching chick flicks in theatres, but I totally recommend you all go see it when it comes out.




Cutie Cameron Diaz's bright pink is a refreshing pop of color amid all the nude looks this year. Though she completes her outfit with pink eyeshadow and lip color, she pulls it off without looking matchy-matchy.


Congratulations to sweepers of the night Kate Winslet and Slumdog Millionaire! I can't wait for the Oscars.



Photos from JustJared and other sources.

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008

OK, I couldn't keep away from here for too long, but I just had to write this entry. While procrastinating, I was completely blown away by the makeup and fashion at this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. This is definitely my favorite they've done so far.

Some highlights (click to enlarge!):




Channeling Artemis and Athena - soft, whimsical girlie pieces mixed with tough leather straps and Grecian buckles.




Selita Ebanks was on FIRE! Quite possibly the hottest Angel of the night.



Romantic black lace in a steely gray ensemble.



Adorable Miranda Kerr. If Selita was the sex kitten, Miranda was the sweetheart.




The PINK line was very cute, with a lot of sassiness.





LOVE the roses woven into the wood corset and mini hoopskirt, and the sparkly spiderweb wings! Gorgeous. The wings this year were truly works of art--another was composed of tiny fluttering butterflies! Unfortunately, I couldn't find a photo.



Haute couture ruffles mimicking peonies, continuing the flower motif.


If you missed the show, you can still watch it online here.
Definitely check it out! Not sure if you can watch it outside of the US though...

Makeup wise, this year's look was very minimalistic and angelic looking--just what I like. You could definitely wear this look to the office, to school--any daytime function--and look great. My break down is as follows:

1. Nude, shimmery eyes. Light golds, taupe, champagne, and even olives were used all over eyelids and brought dramatically into the tear ducts and under half of the lower lashline for an innocent, doe eyed look. Eyes were tightlined with dark brown liner, slightly winged out at the ends, finished by a couple coats of mascara.
2. Contoured and highlighted cheeks. If any bronzer was applied, it was definitely applied with a light hand under the cheekbones, at the temples, along the bridge of the nose, and around the chin. The emphasis was on highlighting the cheeks--again, champagne and warm frosty colors were exaggerated at the upper halves of the cheeks right up to under the temples. The cheeks were topped off with a peachy pink blush at the apples.
3. Peachy pink lips. To match the cheeks, peach and pink lipcolor was applied. To recreate the look, I'd apply lipstick or lipliner, before topping it off with gloss. You can mix and match the peach and pink however best for your skintone. A peach base with pink gloss would probably work for cool tones, and a pink base with peach gloss would probably work for warm tones.


I wish I had time to experiment with this look right now, but I have to get back to work!

Get Rihanna's Look - "Rehab"

I'm still working on my Clarisonic post, but I wanted to write a quick entry about Rihanna's new music video, "Rehab."

The video for this single just premiered on MTV. Rihanna is looking more gorgeous than ever!

(I don't know why uploading screen shots decreases their quality. You can check out the video here)






To get Rihanna's look, you will need to do the following steps:

Optional:
If you have dark eyes, consider wearing light blue or green colored contacts. I like Freshlook and Acuvue.

1) Moisturize your face and cover any blemishes, redness, and under eye circles with concealer. Use a kabuki or flat bronzer brush to distribute mineral powder foundation evenly all over your face.
2) Using an angle brush, fill in your eyebrows with a matte eyeshadow or eyebrow powder two to three shades darker than your hair color.
3) Prime your eyelid with a cream colored eyeshadow base from the lash line to the brow bone. Then, with an eyeshadow brush, pat on a powder cream colored eyeshadow from the lash line also to the brow bone.
4) Everyone's eyes are shaped differently, so using your own eye shape as a guideline, find your crease, and sweep a shimmery golden brown eyeshadow directly onto your crease, extending it outwards past your eye in a V shape, but not past the ends of your eyebrows. Only shade slightly above and below your crease--do not extend the color to the lash line or the brow bone.
5) With a soft blending brush like the MAC 224, take a slightly darker brown powder eyeshadow this time and ONLY shade your crease. Do not shade above or below your crease. This will add depth to your eye.
6) Dip your eyeshadow brush into a shimmery nude powder eyeshadow, and lightly sweep this across your eyelid, from the lash line, but stopping before the brow bone.
7) Using a blending brush, blend the shades on your eyelids in a windshield wiper motion, so the colors look like a gradient, rather than 3 layers of color.
8) With black liquid eye liner, or an angled brush and black cream/gel eyeliner, line your upper eyelid as thinly as possible.
9) Dip a q-tip or pencil brush into the lighter shimmery brown eyeshadow you used on your crease, and line your lower lashline.
10) Line your waterline with a black kohl eye pencil, or cream/gel eyeliner.
11) Curl your eyelashes. Apply several coats of black mascara to top and bottom lashes, concentrating the mascara on the outer lashes.
Optional: If you have short eyelashes, consider applying false eyelashes. For a more subtle look, cut one of the eyelashes in half, and apply the halves to the outer ends of your eyes.
12) Apply bronzer or a peachy brown blush lightly along your cheekbone.
13) Lips: you can try a nude lip or a red lip like Rihanna here. For nude lips, prime your lips with balm, then line and fill them in with a nude lip pencil. Top with clear or nude colored gloss. For red lips, prime your lips with balm, and then line and fill in with a red lip pencil. Using a lip brush, carefully apply a matte red lipstick. Blot with a tissue or blotting paper, and then apply the lipstick with a lipbrush again. Finish with a sheer peach colored gloss in the center of your bottom lip.


I hope that was helpful!