Beauty Icon : Grace Kelly inspired make-up tutorial

Beauty Icon : Grace Kelly inspired make-up tutorial 

Today I'm doing a tutorial inspired by one of my all time favorite beauty icon : Grace Kelly (also known as a Princess of Monaco). 

She is to me, the most beautiful blonde actress ever in the cinema past and present. She was just pure grace and elegance. I'm a huge fan of her movies (even if I wish she did more !). "Rear Window" is in my top 10 all time favorite movies. She was such a wonderful actress and human being. 
Other movie I'm a huge fan of are :  
- "Dial M for Murder" (such a classic !)
- "Mogambo" (with the amazing Clark Gable and Ava Gardner - Ava is also one of my all time favorites she was just so beautiful and fun ! You should see her dance at the last ball Grace Kelly hold, she was dancing and flirting with people like if she was still 25 ! It makes me laugh every time I see the clip of it ! )
- "To Catch a Thief" (with Cary Grant - marry me now please !)

Grace Kelly was not only a great actress, she was also a wonderful human being. She is the one who inspired Princess Diana. She took part in a lot of humanitarian actions (she also hold charity balls) and she was in particular touched by sick children and old people. Let's not forget her love for her family. She brought back life and happiness to Monaco and to the life of her husband Reiner III, Prince of Monaco ; who had a quite "boring" childhood. A wonderful initiative she took, was to make movies of her family. Those are amazing to watch and you could really see how dedicated to her family she was (she had 3 children). 
She left Hollywood for her new life as the Princess of Monaco but never forgot her old friends (she invited them to Monaco and she also made movies of it with are very interesting to watch). She was a very melancholic person. 

She unfortunately died in a car accident in 1982 at the age of 52. On the 14th of September 2012, it will be 30 years since she passed away. Her funeral (which was of course filmed) is heartbreaking to watch.

For that tutorial I had my dear friend and model to help me recreating the look :)

List of products : 

- Face
-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Primer
-- Graftobian HD cream foundation palette in Neutral
-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Airbrush foundation shade n°007
-- Bourjois Flower perfection New generation loose powder
-- Paris Berlin Translucent powder
-- Contour > M.A.C Cosmetics eye shadow in Omega 
-- Blush > Make Up For Ever Blush n°510
-- Paris Berlin Eye brow pencil in CS4

- Eyes 
-- Urban Decay Primer Potion in Original
-- M.A.C Cosmetics eye shadows in Omega and Blanc type
-- Make Up For Ever eye shadow n°57
-- Make Up For Ever Eye seal 
-- NARS Eye shadow duo in Jolie Poupée
-- DiorShow Extase Mascara in Black 
-- Red Cherry Individual fake lashes (Flare medium black)

- Lips
-- SLA Lipstick (orangy-red) toned down with a bit of lip balm

Here is the tutorial for it : 

Talk to you guys later ! :) 

xx 
Claire

Make-up tutorial : How-to Yellow eye shadow and red lips

Make-up tutorial : 

How-to Yellow eye shadow and red lips

List of products : 

- Face

-- NARS Sheer Glow foundation in Mont Blanc (light 2)

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Concealer wheel 

-- CHANEL Sheer illuminating fluid in Sunkissed

-- Paris Berlin Translucent powder 

-- Paris Berlin Pencil in CR 206 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Omega eye shadow 

-- NYX Blush in Angel 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Pigment in Vanilla

- Eyes

-- Urban Decay Primer Potion in Original 

-- Mehron Tropical palette 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Eye kohl in Fascinating

-- M.A.C Cosmetics e/s in Patina and Blanc Type

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Pigment in Vanilla

-- NARS Larger than life long-wear eyeliner in Rue Bonaparte

-- Urban Decay Liquid liner in Perversion 

-- Red Cherry Fake lashes n°48

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Haute & Naughty lash mascara 

- Lips 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Russian red lipstick 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Lipglass

Here is the tutorial : 

Talk to you guys later ! :) 

xx

Claire

Rita Hayworth 40's Glamour inspired make-up tutorial 

A little bit about Rita : 

Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Casino, was an american (of spanish heritage) actress and dancer. She was best known for her role in the 1946's movie "Gilda". She was crowned "the love goddess" back in the days. 

Although she mostly portrayed very glamorous and sexy characters in her movies, she was in real life a very shy and down to earth person. She never found true happiness and her love affairs (she got married and divorced 5 times) were all doomed to fail. 

She was formally an exquisite dancer since the early age of 4, when her father pushed her into dancing. Later on she became an actress. She never fully filmed the movies she wanted as the studios were keeping her "sexy and glamorous" style to the fullest. She wanted to be a drama actress. Most of her husbands controlled her life and career and mostly saw her as a trade mark. Some of her husbands even revealed to be physically abusive. 

She died at the age of 68 in 1987, of a newly discovered decease and still unknown to be cured by doctors : Alzheimer. She had 2 children. 

Her story is quite sad as she never got to pursue her true dream, finding love and being happy with her family and friends. 

Learn more about Rita Hayworth here : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFKSmzeIuBQ

Her make-up & Hair : 

Rita was a natural dark brunette though for commercials purposes she had her hair going from light brunette, blonde and red. She had gorgeous naturally very full wavy hair. It's unfortunate to say that because she had a very small squared forehead, she actually had some of her front hair removed which was extremely painful. 

Lisafreemontstreet ( youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/lisafreemontstreet ) did some hair tutorials which I advice you to watch. 

Rita had beautiful naturally healthy skin. Back then they were using a very heavy moisturizing cream (resembling vaseline) and stick foundation. She even became a spoke-person for Max factor. The ending look gave a semi-matte finish with an underneath glow. She had quite a square face but her heaviest contouring was around her nose. Her eye brows were very thin and elongated to her temples. Her eye make-up was very simple, she mainly wore a light warm brown eye shadow on her lids and a brownish/grey color closer to her lash line. She sometimes had a very thin eye liner on her top lash line and a light shadow on her lower lash line. She had full lashes which is why it's very important to either wear fake lashes or tones of mascara ! She had quite large and full lips and depending on her hair color she wore either a rosy red or orange red lipstick. When she became older she then wore a light orange peach lipstick. Blush wasn't the focus on her face, but she wore quite neutral shades. 

List of products : 

- Face

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Primer

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Concealer wheel 

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Airbrush foundation n°004

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Highlighter n°050

-- Paris Berlin Translucent powder 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Eye shadow in Omega

-- NARS Blush in Douceur

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Blush in Peaches

-- Paris Berlin Pencil n°CR 206 

- Eyes 

-- Urban Decay primer Potion in Original 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Eye shadows in Blanc type & Copperplate

-- Make Up For Ever Eye shadow n°164

-- Make Up For Ever Eye seal 

-- Paris Berlin Eye shadow in Matte black 

-- Red Cherry Individual fake lashes medium size

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Haute & Naughty lash mascara 

- Lips 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Lipstick in Russian red

-- SLA Lipstick in Orange red

-- Rimmel Lipstick n°620

-- Make Up For Ever Star powder (shimmery white)

- Brushes used 

-- Sephora Foundation brush 

-- Urban Decay Double ended synthetic brush (Naked 2 palette)

-- M.A.C Cosmetics n°131duo-fibre brush 

-- Artist contour brush 

-- NARS n°13 blending brush 

-- SLA Eye brow brush 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics n°168 angled blush brush 

-- Sephora Large shadow brush 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics n°239 small shader brush 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics n°217 blending brush 

-- SLA n°4 small shader brush 

-- SLA n°8 large shader brush 

-- Studio Gear n°42 lip brush 

The tutorial is here 

Hope you enjoyed ! 

See you guys later ! :) 

xx

Claire

Make-up How-to : Airbrush foundation with TEMPTU PRO

Make-up How-to : Airbrush foundation with TEMPTU PRO 

Buy the TEMPTU PRO AirTM airbrush system here : http://shop.temptupro.com/

Let me start by saying that nothing can beat airbrush foundation. The result is the best of the best. It looks fantastic and feels fantastic too (actually you don't feel anything on your skin). 

I thought I would make a tutorial on how to do your foundation using an airbrush system with an airbrush gun. (I do not have nor do love in air pod system). 

The airbrush system that I own is the TEMPTU PRO AirTM System. Yes it is a very expensive airbrush system but it's also one the best on the market right now. 

I will be doing a review on it later on this blog, so stay tuned for that ! 

The products that I'm using are all S/B products (Silicone based). I tried water based ones but I didn't like them as much as I like S/B ones. The result is much more natural with S/B products at least for me. (and I never tired Dura products so I can't tell you about them). 

Don't forget to match your foundation to your chest's colour ! No white head&neck and darker body ! And if you are a little bit red because of sunburn like my model, find an area that shows the actual real tanned colour of your skin. Don't try to match your foundation to the redness of your skin. 

List of products used : 

- Face : 

-- L'Oréal Age Perfect Toner

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Primer

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Concealer Wheel 

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Foundation in Golden Honey 007

-- TEMPTU PRO S/B Gold shimmer 051 mixed with Blush 040

-- Paris Berlin Translucent powder 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics eye shadows in Omega and Copperplate

-- M.A.C Cosmetics blushes in Style and Peaches

-- Peggy Sage Shimmering illuminating powder in Mirabelle

-- Paris Berlin Pencil in CR 206

-- Kiehl's LIP BALM #1

Before

After

Here is the tutorial

Hope you enjoyed ! 

See you guys later ! :) 

xx

Claire

Make-up tutorial : Green Smoky eyes using GDE

Green Smoky Eyes using Glamour Doll Eyes

Get your Glamour Doll Eyes e/s here : 

http://glamourdolleyes.com/?affiliate_pro_tracking_id=89:1:FR

List of products : 

- Face

-- Shiseido Perfect Refining Foundation (in I00)

-- Temptu pro concealer wheel

-- Paris Berlin Translucent powder

-- Paris Berlin Pencil in CR 206

-- M.A.C Cosmetics e/s in Omega

-- NYX Blush in Peach 

-- MUFE Star powder (very light pink)

- Eyes 

-- UDPP in Original 

--  MUFE Khol pencil in 4K

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Eye kohl in Fascinating

-- M.A.C Cosmetics e/s in Omega and Blanc type

-- Glamour Doll e/s in Martini Olive, Jayne, Oddity and Angel Wings

-- Too Faced Glitter glue

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Haute & Naughty lash mascara

-- Red Cherry lashes n°217

- Lips 

-- MUFE Star powder (very light pink)

-- CHANEL Rouge coco shine n°41 Canotier

Here is the video tutorial : 

Hope you enjoyed ! 

Talk to you guys later ! :) 

xx

Claire

Review : Shiseido Perfect Refining Foundation

Review : Shiseido Perfect Refining Foundation

(All-Day Flawless, Optimal Moisture SPF 15)

If you know me, you know that I'm really picky when it comes to foundations. I tried a lot of them, from high-end brands to drugstore brands. 

My all time favorite foundation (for 3 years) is the NARS Sheer Glow. I never came across another foundation that gave me the result as good as the NARS Sheer glow. 

Before I start reviewing that Shiseido foundation, I first need to tell you more about my skin type because it makes a huge difference on the final result of a foundation. I have a normal/combo sensitive skin. My skin type will change depending on the weather, on what I eat, on the pollution, ... In summer I'm a little bit on the oily side (only on my t-zones) and in winter a little bit on the dry side (mostly my cheeks and nose). 

So here we go for the review ! :) 

What it says it is : 

- Coverage : Medium 

- Finish : Semi-matte

- Skin type : Normal to Combination

 - Up to 15 hours of wear

What it actually is : 

- Coverage : Medium > I don't like a full coverage foundation so this is perfect for me

- Finish : Semi-matte > This may depend on your skin type and if you powder it after. If you have a dry skin, you don't need to use a setting powder on top of it. If you have more of a combination/oily skin you will need to powder it. But it won't give you a full matte finish. 

- Skin type : Dry, normal, combination/oily and mature skins > That foundation will look good on almost all skin types. As I said if you have a dry skin you don't need to powder it, but since it's a moisturizing foundation it won't dry out your skin. For people with more of an combination/oily skin you will need to powder it. It's a smooth and light liquid foundation so blends nicely into more mature skins too. If you have a very oily skin this won't be a good foundation for you. 

- Well that's the impressive part of that foundation. It does last a very long time. I wouldn't say 15 hours but definitely 10/12 hours (no touch up needed). I wore it from 9am to 10pm when I was in my country house last week. It started to slide off my face around 7pm and I spent my afternoon under a very hot sun. Didn't get oily and no touch up. 

Packaging : 

The foundation comes in a tiny plastic squeezing bottle... and this is awesome ! It's perfect to carry in your bag or on vacation. The amount of foundation is like any other regular foundation : 30 mL / 1 FL. OZ. The packaging is so tiny that you actually think there would be less foundation than that in it. 

Shades : 

Now that's the only down part of that foundation. It only comes into 8 shades : B20, B40, B60, B100, I00, I20, WB40, WB60. B stands for Natural Beige, I for Ivory and WB for Warm Beige. Mine is the lightest which is I00. If you have a dark complexion you won't find a shade for you and if you have a very yellow undertone that foundation doesn't offer the shades 020 or O40 which are standing for Ochre colors. 

That foundation is also non-comedogenic et dermatologist-tested. 

It retails for 34€ in France (tax included), which is around US$42. I think Shiseido is not that expensive in France, so you may wanna check the regular price in your country. I know for a fact that that foundation is very very expensive in Australia but Australia is soooo expensive when it comes to make-up, it's insane ! I heard people paying AU$82 for it !  

In conclusion this is my new favorite foundation, for winter at least. NARS Sheer Glow is still my fav for summer because it gives that instant glow to my face. 

Hope that review helped you. 

Talk to you guys later ! :) 

xx

Claire

Fall 2012 Trend Make-up tutorial : Pink Devine

FALL 2012 Trend Make-up "Pink Devine"

List of products :

- Face

-- Shiseido Perfect Refining Foundation (I00)

-- Temptu pro S/B Concealer wheel

-- Paris Berlin Translucent powder 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics e/s in Omega

-- NYX blush in Angel 

-- M.A.C Cosmetics blush in Style

-- Peggy Sage Shimmering illuminating powder in Mirabelle

-- Paris Berlin Pencil in CR 206

- Eyes

-- UDPP in Original

-- Sleek Storm palette (used : shimmery beige, matte light brown, shimmery light pink, shimmery burgundy and matte black)

-- M.A.C Cosmetics e/s in Yogurt

-- NARS Larger than life long-wear eyeliner in Rue Bonaparte

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Fake lashes n°20

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Haute & Naughty lash mascara 

- Lips

-- M.A.C Cosmetics Lipstick in Russian red

-- NARS lipstick in Schiap 

In B&W

Here is the tutorial for this look

Hope you enjoyed ! 

See you guys later ! :) 

xx

Claire