Cat Eye Make Up Like Angelina Jolie's And Rihanna's Is Simple To Create And Looks Stunning

Rihanna and Angelina Jolie are both fans of the "cat eye" makeup look. Its a stunning and sultry look that's great for the evening. Best of all its pretty easy to create and small mistakes can be dealt with easily. Here's how to create it:

Prime Your Eyes

Using an eyeshadow primer such as Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion, apply this to your upper eyelid area up to your browline. If you don't have a primer to hand, you can substitute a small amount of concealer, which you need to blend over your upper eye area.

Apply A Neutral Eyeshadow

Using an applicator, apply a neutral (one that matches your own skin tone) eyeshadow over your upper eyelid, and blend up towards your eyebrows.

Highlight Your Eyes

Apply a shimmering or highlighting shadow along your browline, blending as you go.

Define Your Eyes

Next using an eyeshadow which is a couple of shades darker than your neutral one, in a smokey shade, use an eyeshadow brush to apply this colour along the crease line of your eyelid, blending in again.

Line Your Eyes

Using a black liquid or gel eyeliner, line closely along your top and lower lashes, making sure you get right to the inner corner of your eye. When you reach the outer corner of your eye extend the line upwards along a 15 degree angle. Have a look at the picture of Leona Lewis as this is a great example of how the outer eye flick should look. You have now created the basic look, but to get a more dramatic effect you should apply a second layer of black liner around your eyes. You may find that you need to keep your skin held taught (although don't ever stretch the skin around your eyes too much) but this will ensure that your eyeliner does not get jagged or uneven edges.

Setting The Look

Using either a black eyeliner pencil or a small eyeliner brush dipped in black eyeshadow, go over the gel eyeliner to set the look.

Using Colour With The Cat Eye Make Up Look

Rihanna also has a vibrant blue colour along her upper lids. To create this look use a bright blue sparkling liner when you create your second line around your eye. Collection 2000 do some great sparkling liners if a wide range of colours that are very easy to use and low priced if you want to experiment with different colours. When you set this look use either an eyeliner pencil or shadow in a similar colour to set the look.

Cleaning Up Any Mistakes

If you have made any smudges or mistakes, these can easily be corrected using a cotton bud dipped in eye makeup remover.

Finish Your Look With Lashings Of Mascara

Apply two or three coats of lash building mascara to both your top and bottom lashes to finish your look.

Deep Berry And Wine Lip Colours Are Here To Warm Up Your Lips This Autumn

Deep berry and wine colours are not only the on trend colour for this Autumn (psssst, they were everywhere on the Paris catwalks!), but they give an edge to your look, changing normal daytime make-up into something more stylish and mysterious. Yes, we know that using such a dark colour may be daunting after seasons of neutral pinks and beiges, but by following some easy tips you will be able to pull off this look and look fabulous.

Here's How To Apply Deep Wine And Berry Coloured Lipcolour Perfectly

• Exfoliate your lips prior to make-up application and then use a lip balm to condition your lips and allow the balm to be absorbed before continuing with your make-up.
• Apply both foundation and concealer to create a flawless and perfect background for your dramatic lips. You can use eyeliner and mascara, but stick with blacks and neutral colours as your lips are going to be the star of the show. Here, Drew is wearing eye make-up but she has used silver-grey and black around her eyes.
• To create some warmth in your face, apply a soft coloured blusher along your cheekbones which will illuminate your face.
• Make-up artist, Alex Babsky advises "Deep berry shades are a brilliant pick-me-up for all skin types, and because they are blue in tone, matching is a breeze - unlike traditional red lipstick". Applying a blusher to your cheekbones will illuminate your skin and this is necessary with a dark lipstick.
• Reverse the way you would normally apply your lipstick and lipliner and apply your lipstick first, by slicking on straight from the lipstick itself a deep shot of the colour over your lips. Your lipstick will not be perfect at this point, but it doesn't matter.
• Then using a matching lipliner, apply your lipliner along your natural lip line. Applying outside this line will not work with a dark shade like this. Having pre-applied your lipstick will give your lip pencil lots of "slip" which will enable both products to blend evenly together.
• Now carefully apply lip gloss to the centre of your lips, applying more of a high gloss shine for night-time. The look is kind of like Marilyn Monroe with an edge, gorgeous!

Makeup Tips To Create The Kristen Stewart Look In New Moon

I first heard of Kristen Stewart when she played Tracy, a teenage, guitar playing daughter of travelling folk in the film "Into the Wild". Since then she has risen to fame playing Bella Swan, the heroine of the Twilight Saga, which follows the story of a teenage girl (Bella) moving to a new town, Forks, Washington, where she meets Edward Cullen, a boy who is a little bit different, and who sees Bella as the soul mate he has been waiting for. Anyway, lots more of this story can be found in Stephanie Meyer's books and, as fascinating as this story is, we are here to look at how to re-create the natural, beautiful looks of Bella in the story.

Bella is described in the novels as pale and beautiful, with large, chocolate brown eyes, and a natural beauty, which is the look we are going to achieve here.

• Step 1: Using a light coloured foundation (stay away from golden or tanned shades), apply a thin even base of a matte finish foundation.
• Step 2: Using a matching concealer, lightly apply to disguise dark circles under the eyes and any other noticeable imperfections.
• Step 3: Using a loose powder and large powder brush, sweep a translucent powder over the forehead and mainly over the t-zone to keep away any unwanted shine.
• Step 4: Using a peachy or earthy toned blusher, brush a powder blusher from the apples of your cheeks outwards along your cheekbones, keeping the look natural.
• Step 5: Unless you already have dark, defined eyebrows, use a dark brown eyebrow pencil to define the shape of your brows, starting at the inner corner and working outwards. Don't use solid lines, but draw in hairs over your natural brow shape, and then blend with an eyebrow brush.
• Step 6: Using matte eyeshadows, apply a natural coloured shadow all over your upper eyelid area and blend out towards the brow bone. Then using a slightly deeper colour, such as a light brown or matte grey, work this along the eyelid crease and out towards the outer corner of your eyelid blending it to the middle of your lid above your iris.
• Step 7: Using either a brown or grey eye pencil draw a line along your upper and lower lashes and blend this in so it gives a hint of definition rather than a harsh line.
• Step 8: Using a brown-black mascara apply a thin coat to your upper and lower lashes.
• Step 9: Then finally, using a chocolate or plum shade of lipstick (muted shades are best), apply a matte lip colour to your lips using a lip brush for better coverage and staying power.

How To Create The Makeup of Miss Holly Golightly For A Romantic Valentine Look

It's almost time for the most romantic evening of the year, and whether you will be spending it with a new love or having a romantic evening at home, it's one evening of the year where you can go whole-heartedly for the romantic, girlie look. The Spring Season 2010 will be full of floral and pastel outfits with frills and girlie accessories, and these styles are perfectly matched with the romantic and classical Hollywood makeup techniques used on starlets, such as Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The makeup artist on Breakfast at Tiffany's was actually a guy named Wally Westmore, who was born in England, and who was one of six brothers who all became makeup artists. In his memory, here are some of the great Hollywood makeup tips which he worked to perfection on Miss Hepburn in that movie.

• Always have a perfect canvas to work on - use either a good quality foundation or a primer which will ensure a smooth, flawless and dewy coverage. Audrey never sported a tanned look in BAT, so use a foundation which is the lightest shade which suits you and which looks natural. Apply a concealer if you need one under the eyes and on any slight imperfections using either a concealer in the same shade as your foundation or my preferred product which is Touche Eclat by Yves Saint Laurent, which brightens as well as conceals.
• Using a large powder brush, lightly apply a dusting of loose, translucent face powder, which looks much more natural than set powder.
• Next you need to work on your eyebrows. Depending on what your natural brows are like you may have to work harder to achieve a look like Audrey's. If you actually study her brows, they are pretty heavy by today's standards, but working with an eyebrow pencil in a shade close to your own natural colour you need to draw in an almost straight outline on the underneath of your brow and create an arch along the top of the brow. If you are naturally fair or have very slight eyebrows try to work in as much definition as your feel comfortable with.
• We are intending this look for a romantic evening, so next to the eyeshadow. This is a relatively simple application and we recommend a dark brown shadow which is applied relatively deeply all over the eyelid and which is then blended out beyond the crease line, gradually fading it out.
• Audrey had beautiful, rosy girlie cheeks. Using a large blusher brush, apply a rose pink blusher to the apples of your cheeks. Limit the application to a subtle application of colour. Next apply a highlighter along your cheekbones to give an almost ethereal glow.
• Audrey's lips sported very neatly applied matte lipstick. No brash or bright colours should be involved, look for colours such as a light cherry red, and apply this with a lip brush, carefully outlining your lips, then filling in the centre and finally blotting the colour.
• Audrey's eyelashes where black and beautifully curled. Use a good quality mascara for curling lashes, and make sure that you apply lots to the outer corner lashes of your eyes to get the full fluttering effect.

How To Keep Those Gorgeous Eyes White and Bright

It's a fact - no matter how much time and money we spend on eye make up and mascara, if our eyes are dull and bloodshot, all that effort is wasted. Eyes can become dull for many reasons with a hectic lifestyle. Many of us stare at a PC all day long and this can lead to red and dry eyes. Even sun and wind can make our eyes sore, and we all know what effect too much of a good thing the night before has on our eyes the next morning. Yep, the puffy eyelids and pink eyed effect is not to attractive in the early morning light the next day. And it's not just the girls that suffer - I've know fellas ask to borrow some eyedrops to try and improve the look of their hung-over eyeballs the next day.

Some Natural Remedies To Brighten Your Peepers..

• Eat a small helping of mixed berries at breakfast, such as blueberries, black and redcurrants and raspberries - the vitamins and antioxidants in these berries will circulate within your system and brighten your eyes in about 20 minutes.
• Cucumbers over your eyes is really a myth - there is not a lot in them that really helps your eyes. However, because they are roughly 90% water and you have usually taken the slices out of the fridge, the cooling and hydrating effect of slices of cucumbers placed over your eyes can help reduce puffiness, the same as a pair of used teabags will.

Should You Use Eye Drops Which Brighten Your Eyes?

• Some eye brightening eye drops will really help with red or irritated eyes. Some are moisturising as well, so they really help people with dry eyes caused by lack of blinking while working at their PC. Always read the label though and speak to your pharmacist before using them.  I have used them very successfully for many years, before a night out when feeling tired, or in the morning if needed.

How To Disguise Early Morning Shadows Around Your Eyes

• The old favourite, Touche Eclat is brilliant for this. When you have applied your regular eye makeup, just run the Touche Eclat brush against the outer corners of your eyes and along the rim of your eye socket underneath and blend gently with the brush. All signs of crows feet or shadows are minimised immediately.