Here's How To Create The Classic 60s Brigitte Bardot Makeup Look - Its Big For This Season

This season the catwalks have been awash with sex-kitten Bardot look-alike faces. All the big fashion names have been recreating the iconic 60s look, but giving it a subtle modern twist. If you weren't around for the first time the craze for Bardot bed-head, eyeliner and nude makeup took hold of the fashion world then you have to indulge in the look this Autumn. If you need some tips on how to get the Brigitte look, read on. The look can be worn daytime or evening, and it has benefits too, such as widening and opening up your eyes with the elongated eyeliner lines and false lashes. The look creates a mixture of innocence and just a little bit of naughtiness too.

Here's How To Create Brigitte's Makeup

• Using either a light concealer or a neutral foundation apply to your complexion to cover any imperfections until you have a neutral blank canvas to work on.
• Finish off your complexion with a subtle sweep of neutral face powder, and then add a bloom of subtle peach colour over the apples of your cheeks and lightly across your cheekbones.
• Using black or grey eyeshadow sweep it across your eyelid and up to the crease. Brigitte was very much into the smokey eye look. For daytime, you can keep the eyeshadow more subtle. Whichever shade you choose, make sure you blend like crazy to ensure there are no harsh lines.
• Next, ideally using a gel or liquid black eyeliner, line your upper lash line. Bring the line out past the outer corner of your eye to create a cat-eye, winged look. Then line along your lower lash line and join the lines at the outer corner of your eye.
• Apply at least two coats of black volumising mascara to both your upper and lower lashes. If you wish, prior to applying the mascara you can add some individual false lashes to the outer edge of your upper eyelid.
• Line your lips with a nude lipliner and apply your lipstick - keep the colour to a fairly neutral peachy, pink shade.

How To Create Brigitte's Bed-Head Hair

• The trick here is to create volume. If you have wavy hair you are already off to a good start. If your hair is straight create some curls by wrapping sections of your hair around a large curling iron, or use hair straighteners to create lift and waves from the roots of your hair.
• Next section your hair from the crown of your head and back-comb your hair to add more volume.
• Spray with hairspray and let your hair set for a few minutes.
• To finish off lightly comb the back-combed hair into place. Don't comb away all your teasing, but just straighten up the top of your hair. Then use hairspray again to keep in place and either wear your hair down, or use hairgrips or pins to create a loose and messy up-do.

Katy Perry is Bold And Beautiful - And You Can Be Too When You Create The Katy Perry Makeup Look

Katy Perry is known as the beautiful American singer, songwriter and actress who married Russell Brand in 2010. She is also known for her unconventional style, which can often be humerous, bright and reminiscent of decades past. Strangely she likes to use fruit shaped accessories, mostly watermelons, as part of her outfits. She says she was inspired by the 1997 film adaptation of Lolita and she describes her style as a "concoction of different things". When it comes to makeup she usually has signature red lips, and her makeup and hairstyles call to mind other celebrity beauties like Dita Von Teese or even Elizabeth Taylor in her twenties. If you want to create Katy's makeup look, here's some tips on how to do it.

How To Create Katy Perry's Makeup Look

Foundation: First choose a foundation that blends naturally with your own skintone. One of the main things you see when you look at Katy is her perfect complexion. She herself uses foundation and powder, so don't be afraid to use it youself, but stick to a natural, light shade.

Translucent Powder: Don't use bronzer, but dust a small amount of translucent power over your face, particularly in areas which tend to be more oily.

Blusher: Choose a powder blusher in a baby pink tone, one that reminds you of the 50s era - think Marilyn Monroe, and blend this in along your cheekbones, rather than over the apples of your cheeks.

Lips: Apply a matte lipstick in cherry red, fuschia or magenta. Apply one layer, blot with tissue, and then apply a further layer. Keep the look matte and not glossy - again a throwback to the era of the early sirens of the silver screen.

Eyebrows: These should be pencilled in with a dark brown eyebrow pencil, ensuring they have an alluring arch in the middle.

Eyes: Use a set of false eyelashes and apply them to your upper eyelid - they need to be the long and luscious kind that Katy uses. Blend them in with some black gel eyeliner and black mascara on both your upper and lower lashes. Your eyelids do not need any colour, but you can use a neutral shadow to shade along your socket line if you want to add more depth.

Hair: To finish off your look style your hair with either large heated rollers or curl with hair straighteners or a large barrelled curling tong to create filmstar waves.

How To Create The Perfect Make Up Look For A Perfect Day

Whether you are a fan of the Royal Family or not, we think that most of the country (maybe most of the globe in fact) thought that Kate Middleton looked like the perfect English rose on her wedding day to Prince William. She looked fresh faced and rosy, and not at all "over done". This is the perfect look for any special occasion - especially a more formal occasion or a daytime event. Kate did have some makeup lessons prior to the big day, but even so, to attempt your own makeup on a day as big as hers takes some courage, but happily it really worked out for her. Here are some tips on how you can create your own Kate Middleton (or Duchess of Cambridge) look for your own event.

• Using a natural shade of foundation apply a light coverage all over your face, blending in at the jawline and around the brow area.
• Stay away from powder, this can be unflattering and ageing in the daytime, but "set" your foundation using a light bronzer. The look you are trying to create is a light "glow", not a dark tan.
• Next using a dark brown eyebrow pencil shade in your eyebrows - Kate has a strong browline, which adds definition to her face.
• Using a smokey or slate coloured shadow, shade in your eyelid to the crease line, blending it around the edges.
• To line your eyes, use a black gel eyeliner - this gives a more defined line than a pencil and is easier to handle than a brush eyeliner. Line along your top lash line close to your lashes sweeping out slightly at the outer corners, then line along your lower lash line with a thinner line.
• Next apply two coats of lash lengthening mascara, to both top and bottom lashes.
• Using a rose pink powder blusher and a large blusher brush, apply blusher to the apples of your cheeks, and then blend this outwards along your cheekbones.
• For your lips, using a mid pink lipliner, line your lips and then apply a rose or baby pink lipcolour. Top this off with a longlasting clear lip gloss.

Using these colours and shades will give you a natural and beautiful glowing appearance. It also helps if you can smile beautifully all day as Kate did too!

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!

Ten Of The Biggest Makeup Mistakes To Avoid

• Oooops - choosing the wrong foundation and concealer. Girls can often pick a foundation colour that is far too light as they remember the old rule "does it match the skin tone along the jaw line". Unfortunately, using this method can often result in a very light shade of foundation when applied over the face leaving the complexion looking washed out and uneven particularly if the skin has darker patches of skin tone or freckles. Choosing a foundation which gives your skin tone a slight golden glow looks youthful and revitalised - think of the natural glow shown off by Jennifer Aniston.
• Avoid Harsh eyeliner. We love the smoky eye look, but that is a softer, dark and sultry look which is blended along the lashes and into the eyeshadow. Don't be tempted to use eyeliner, especially liquid black eyeliner, to greatly exaggerate the shape of the eyes unless you are creating an OTT party look for a night out. This look for day wear is harsh and false. If you use a liquid liner for your day to day makeup create a thinner line close to the lashes to define the eyes.
• Don't over emphasise all of your features. The old rule here is true - don't try and make both eyes and lips the main features of your face - it's just too much. Either create dramatic eyes and neutral lips or emphasize your mouth and keep your eye makeup natural.
• Just too shiny! Remember not to apply too many shimmering products together - unless you are going to a '70s party! Shimmering lipstick does not look good with frosted high-lighters and eyeshadow. Use matte products and finish with one shimmering product, such as a frosted lipstick, or use matte lipstick on the lips and make a feature of your eyes with glittering eyeshadow.
• Don't apply too much mascara to the lower lashes. Keep it to one natural looking coat of mascara on the lower lashes and be careful until they are dry that they don't smudge onto your skin.
• Don't use a white high-lighter on your brown bone. This can look very odd - just use a lighter shade of the eye-shadow you have applied over your eyelids, applying it lightly upwards towards the brow bone, but not right up to your eyebrows.
• Don't make your eyes look smaller. Be careful when applying eyeliner to the inner eyelid, i.e. inside your eyelashes, as this can make your eyes seem much smaller and again looks pretty unnatural. If you have a darker complexion and eyes, then black eyeliner applied in this way can look stunning, but otherwise we don't like this method of application.
• Don't be a clown. Applying a darker lip liner to the outer contours of your lips and filling in with a lighter shade of lipstick is not a good idea - it's rather like clown lips. It might work for models in a studio for a photo shoot, but in real life it looks pretty fake and your lipstick will generally wear off leaving an unnatural dark line around your lips.
• Do you look like Aunt Sally? Yes, Aunt Sally was a character in a children's program who had bright rosy cheeks applied in big circles. One of our tips is to apply blusher to the apples of your cheeks, but this should look like a natural blush and be blended - be careful of creating unnatural looking small red circles. Blend from the apples of the cheeks towards the cheekbones.
• Don't apply lipstick on its own. Applying a swipe of lipstick may seem like a quick fix to brighten up your face, but without any other colour on your face it will look unnatural, harsh and ageing.
• Do you have makeup lines around your jawline? Always check your jawline after applying your foundation, give it a moment to "settle in" then check your jaw on both sides for any unnatural looking "tidemarks" which just look grubby. Remember to blend foundation into and over your jawline for a natural finish.

Have you made any terrible mistakes when applying your makeup or have you learnt any great makeup techniques - we are interested to hear about them, so let us know, we love new tips!