Get the Look | Tamera Mowry's Fresh Face

1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.

2. Even your skin tone with tinted moisturizer like Laura Mercier's SPF 20 tinted moisturizer. If you want more coverage, try Make Up For Ever's HD Foundation. Set with a loose powder.

3. Next fill in your brows with a brow pencil. MAC has a great brown pencil that comes in a variety of colors. 

4. Prime your eyes with a primer of your choice, NYX Eyeshadow Base Primer works well. With a blending brush, lightly apply Inglot's 479 Double Sparkle Eyeshadow or any other grey shadow with a light sparkle to your eyes. Extend the shadow to underneath your eyes as well. Next you want to line your top and bottom with a black liner. I suggest Stila Kajal Eyeliner in Onyx. Add mascara and lashes. 

5. Smile and lightly apply an orange hued blush to your cheeks. NARS Taj Mahal  is FAB!

6. Lastly apply a light nude lipgloss to your lips. Try Viva Glam V!!!

Get the Look | Rihanna Pretty in Pink

 

 

1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.

2. Apply a matte foundation to all over your face. Make Up For Ever's Mat Velvet + foundation hides imperfections, evens out skin tone, and mattifies with a non-oily, perfectly powdered finish. 

3. Next fill in your brows with a brow pencil. MAC has a great brown pencil that comes in a variety of colors. 


4. Highlight the area above your cheekbones with a concealer one shade lighter than your skin color or use YSL's Touche Eclat in a color that works best for you. Blend!!!

5. Prime your lids with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Lightly dust an orangy/peachy/pinkish eyeshadow on your lid and carry it into the tear duct. If used lightly, MAC's Rule wwould work well.

6. For more drama, apply top AND bottom lashes. Red Cherry lashes will get the job done and they're very inexpensive. 


7. Add a cotton candy pink to your cheeks. NARS' Desire is a great option. 


8. Finally line your lips with a brown lip liner and fill in your lips with a light pink lipstick. Saint Germain from MAC's Quite Cute Collection is fabulous.

Get The Look: Keshia Knight Pulliam at the NAACP Image Awards

Keshia Knight Pulliam looked soft and gorgeous at the 42nd Annual NAACP awards. Want to recreate her look? Keep Reading!

1.As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.

2. Prime your face with a primer like MAC's Prep + Prime Face Protect SPF 50.
 
3. Apply a cream foundation all over the skin like Kevyn Aucoin's Skin Enhancing Foundation. Set the foundation with MAC's Prep + Prime Transparent Finishing Powder or something similar.
 
4. Gently fill on your brows with a brow pencil one shade lighter than your hair color.
 
5. Prime your eyelids with your favorite prime then add a smokey grey shadow like Stila's Diamond Lil to your lids extending in your crease and lower lash line. Line your top and bottom lash lines with a black pencil like Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide On Pencil in Zero. Add lashes if you're fancy!
 
6. Blend a cotton candy pink blush onto you cheeks. NARS Angelika is a great option.
 
7. Lay a soft pink lip gloss like NYX's Beautiful and you're good to go!

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2011 Golden Globe Awards | My Favorite Makeup Looks

 Christina Aguilera wore her signature cat-eyes and a great red lip.

 Love, love, love Dianna Argon's look. The berry lip was perfection.

 Eva Longoria looked flawless. I loved the nude lips and champagne eyes.

Ms. Berry looked stunning as usual. Her skin is a dream.

 Jennifer Lopez was bronzed to perfection with a great gray smokey eye.

 Jennifer Love Hewitt looks beautiful with her long lashes and nude waterline.

Mila Kunis looked super adorable, fresh and effortless.

Get the Look | Kelly Rowland

Love the simple and elegant makeup Kelly Rowland is wearing? Follow my steps below to Get the Look!

1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.  
2. Apply Face Atelier's Ultra Foundation all over the face. This is a great silicone-based foundation that don't crease and lasts all day. Set you foundation with a loose powder like Make Up For Ever Microfinish Powder.
3. Lightly sweep NARS Exhbit A Blush in your crease with a MAC 217 brush then line your top lash line with CoverGirl's LineExact Liquid Liner. Line your bottom line with CoverGirl's Perfect Point Plus Eyeliner. Add a little of MAC's Vanilla Pigment to your inner tear ducts then top it off with some fab lashes. 
4. Pull your NARS Exhibit A Blush out again and add it to the apple of your cheeks. To take it up a notch, lightly conture the sides of your nose with the same blush and BLEND. 
5. For the perfect pout, add Sephora's Maniac Long Wearing Lipstick in number 19 (watermelon rose cream) and top it off with MAC's Money, Honey ( a mid-tone rosy mauve with red pearl).
   

MAC for Nicki Minaj | Pink Friday 4 Lipstick

Any Nicki Minaj fans out there??
MAC will be releasing a limited edition  lipstick in honor of the female MC named Pink Friday 4 which coincides with the rappers debut album "Pink Friday". The release date for this lipstick is still up in the air; some say this friday, others say next friday but according to MAC LiveChat detailed information will be released on Monday, November 22. I do know that the lipstick will only be available to four consecutive fridays so keep checking back for updates.

The lipstick is a satin finish and  is said to be a cross between MAC's Pink Nouveau and A Girl About Town. How do you feel about the lipstick? Will you be purchasing?

Get The Look | Kerry Washington

Do you love Kerry Washington's flawless and always understated makeup? Get her look with my suggestions below.

1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.

2. Apply a stick foundation like Black Radiance Perfect Blend Crème Foundation Stick With SPF 15 only where you need it. Carefully blend it into the skin with either a makeup wedge or a foundation brush. Set your foundation with a powder like Perfect Tone Loose Powder. 


3. Prep your eyes for eyeshadow by applying a primer like Urban Decay Primer Potion all over the lid up to the crease. Apply a silver shadow to the inner tear ducts of your eyes then finish off you eye lid with a greyish-brown color, carry that color into the crease. Line your eye with a black pencil, add whispie lashes and mascara.

4. Fill in your brow with a brow pencil like Revlon's Brow Fantasy Pencil and Gel.

5. To get Kerry's cheeks apply a rosy blush like NYX's Desert Rose.

6. Finish the look by lining your lips with NYX Mahogany liner and adding a plum-pink with pink shimmer lipstick like Almay Sequin One Coat Lipstick.

What's in Ciara's Makeup Bag via OnStyle.com

Her list includes Kevyn Aucoin foundation, Fashion Fair Concealer, and Lancome Blush in Mocha Havana.
Read the rest of her list here.

Get the Look | Nia Long

From the moment she graced the big screen in Boyz N The Hood, I was hooked. Nia's girl-next-door persona has landed her roles ranging from sitcoms to my all time favorite movie Love Jones. But it’s her  innate personal style, beautiful smile, flawless makeup and lovely tresses that always keep me wanting more. Get her look!

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1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type. 

2. Prime your skin with Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer. 

3. Even skin tone with Mary Kay's Medium-Coverage Foundation. Set Foundation with MAC Prep + Prime Transparent Finishing Powder.  

4. Fill in your eyebrows with a brow pencil.

5. Apply a lavender eye shadow like Urban Decay's Asphyxia around the perimeter of your eye {do not go into the crease}. Line the upper and lower lash line with a black pencil and add some pixie eyelashes.

6. For Nia's cheeks apply a soft pink blush like NARS Orgasm to the apple of the cheek and blend to towards the hairline. 

7. Apply a neutral gloss to the lip like OCC's Lip Tar in Trick.

Voila`!

Get the Look: Eva Marcille

Eva the Diva is always flawlessly painted when she steps onto the red carpet. Her makeup is always understated letting her natural beauty shine through, especially those mountains she calls cheekbones. Read below to get her look!



1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type. 

2. Even out your skin tone with MAC's Studio Tech Foundation. Set your foundation with MAC's Mineralized Skin Finish Natural.

3. Prime your eyelids with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. For a "naked" eye apply a light brown shadow like Illamasqua Boomerang to your crease with a blending brush like MAC's 217. Line your uppers lash line with a black gel liner and your lower water line with a nude liner like Stila's Kajal Eyeliner in Topaz. To make this look "smoky" add a black shadow like Make Up Forever # 4 to the lid and blend. Line the bottom water and lash line with a black liner. Add mascara.

4. Fill in any sparse brows with a brown brow pencil or a powder like Illamasqua Brow Cake.

5. To make your cheek bones pop like Eva's, try MAC's blush in Raizin.

6. Line your lips with a brown lip liner like MAC's Chestnut and color them in with a chocolate lipstick like Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Sienna.

Get The Look: Janelle Monae

Janelle Monae is bringing more than a new refreshing sound to the music scene, her androgynous clothing style and hott natural hair updo is equally as refreshing and fly. Not to mention she is a true beauty with skin to die for. To get Ms. Monae's sexy and natural makeup look follow the steps below!

1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.

2.  Be sure that your brows are properly groomed. Janelle's brows are on the thick side but nicely shaped. Lightly fill in thin or over plucked with a brow pencil like MAC Spiked.

3. Even out your skin tone with Black Opal Stick Foundation.  Set your foundation with a finishing powder, try Becca's Fine Loose Finishing Powder. I recently sampled this powder... amazing!

4. Next apply an eyeshadow base to the lid, Urban Decay Primer Potion works great. Then apply a matte shadow that is as close to your complexion as possible all over your lid up to the brow bone. Define your crease with a matte brown shadow a couple shades darker than your complexion. Use a light hand during this step to ensure the look is natural.

5. Line the top and bottom lash line with MUFE Aqua Eyes in Black.  For an extra "bang" add some Ardell Fashion Lashes Demi Whispies. If you're not feeling the lashes just add mascara.

6. For Janelle's bright cheeks try an reddish-orange blush like NARS Exhibit A. This blush looks very red in its container but don't be intimidated {with a light hand and well blended} Exhibit A looks gorgeous on a black skin tones. If you get a little carried away just apply a loose powder to blend and tone it down.

7. Line your lips with a brown lip line, MAC's Cork will do, and add MAC Siss on top and pucker up!

8. Lastly, set your makeup with a finishing powder spray MAC's Fix +.

Check out one of Janelle's DOPE tunes:

Get The Look: Rihanna

Its no secret that Rihanna's makeup is always On.Point! From her videos to the red carpet to paparazzi pics, she always has her game face on. If you love her look too, I’ve got some steps on how to copy it so that works on all skin tones. Check it out:

1. As always, beautiful makeup starts with beautiful skin. Be sure to cleanse, tone and moisturize your skin according to your skin type.

2. Next grab a matte foundation like MUFE Mat Velvet + or Iman Stick Foundation and blend well into the skin. Set with a loose powder to make sure your foundation stays in place.

3. To recreate her killer cat eye pull out your pencil brush ( the MAC 210 brush makes lining your eyes a breeze) and a gel eyeliner like Loreal HIP Cream Eyeliner in Black. Trace your eye extending the liner a little further toward your temples create the "winged' look. Tip: To make sure that both "wings" are even,  extend the liner from the bottom lash line then connect the line from the top lash line. This way your curves will be even. If you want to define your crease a little, just grab a blending brush and apply a matte eye shadow that's close to your complexion. Curl your lashes and add about three coats of black mascara.

4. For glowing cheeks pull out NARS Super Orgasm, smile and buff the blush into your skin.

5. Apply a sheer nude gloss to the lips or for the unforgettable red lip, line your lips with NYX Hot Red liner and put [my fav] MAC Ruby Woo on top!

My Best Dressed Grammy Picks...

Glee star Lea Michelle looked gorgous is this fun and flirty, one shoulder navy blue dress. I loved the simplicity of this look and I need to add something similar to my wardobe STAT. Her natural makeup was flawless and allowed the dress to take center stage.

Keri Hilson looked stunning! By far the best I've ever seen her look. This beige mermaid dress huged her curves and I loved the embellishment around the waist. Her makeup was flawless giving me face a nice glow. If I were in high school this would so be my prom dress lol!

Taylor Swift is so cute to me. I thought she looked like a doll in this sparkly blue number. Her makeup was very light and she added a little splash with a pink lip. Just adorable!

My honorable mention was Pink. I love the way the dress blended with her skin tone... Amazing!

Photos from Grammy.com

Rihanna: Simply Flawless

Rihanna looked fabulous as she walked the red carpet of the 2010 NJR Awards in Cannes. Her makeup was flawless as usual and her Jean Paul Gautlier gown fit her body perfectly. She always takes risks with her clothing and most of the time it works. She's always fashion forward but her makeup artist... dahling, simply flawless!