For a night out, a smoky eye is the perfect accessory. With products from Rimmel London, it is easy to achieve and affordable!

Rimmel London Soft Kohl Kajal Eyeliner at Jet Black: Delivers a soft, smudgeable line and fade-resistant color that’s easy to apply and great for creating smoky eye looks. This pencil gives dense color application, which can be blended into the lid for a softly smudged look.

Backstage Makeup at Dolce&Gabbana Winter 2011 during Milan Fashion Week.

At the Dolce&Gabbana Winter 2011 Ready-to-Wear show in Milan, The Designers’ showcased their Sicilian roots and fascination with “sartorialità” or tailoring, highlighting the jacket with keen focus on both perfection and sensuality. Dolce& Gabbana The Make Up added an aura of softness and seduction to each impeccable look, with washes of fresh, feminine color. On the runway, each model donned red lips and understated eyes created using Dolce&Gabbana The Make Up.

“This season, we took inspiration from our Sicilian heritage, and the art of traditional tailoring—sartorialità, ” said Domenico Dolce. “The beauty look was all about modern feminine perfection, with impeccably pure, detailed touches, like the stained lip,” added Stefano Gabbana.

NEW Spring/Summer 2010 makeup collection from Avon: High Definition Color. The effect: extreme lases, brilliant liners and soft focus skin.

Avon Ultra Color Rich Mega Impact Lipstick High-Definition Lip Color for Mega Watt Drama. Developed with breakthrough color magnifiers, this new Mega Impact lipstick by Avon highlights and reflects true color for bright, vivid, high impact looks. Gilds on smoothly for hours and has SPF 15.

Expert makeup tips by Jillian Dempsey Avon Global creative Color Director and Hollywood Makeup Artist: “With Mega Impact, lips will really pop with color, so it’s important to keep eyes simple. To avoid color overload, pair bold lips with a sheer shadow and black mascara for a sophisticated, glamorous look.”

Hourglass Cosmetics lead makeup artist Michael Pierce created the LA PERLA Fall 2010 Collection Preview makeup look. The preview took place at the Lehmann Maupin gallery in NYC on the first day of Fashion Week.

“LA PERLA is known for stunning, one-of-a-kind lingerie,” say Michael Pierce. “Women simply feel beautiful when wearing their pieces and when creating the makeup, I wanted to reflect the inner-confidence and radiance that comes with wearing LA PERLA.”

Makeup Tutorial:

For the LA PERLA collection, I was inspired by 40s Hollywood – Veronica Lake and other silver screen sirens. The focus is on a gorgeous, strong red lip, but a red that every woman can wear. LA PERLA is beautiful, sexy and feminine and nothing portrays a woman’s beauty like the ability to wear a truly stunning red. Hourglass’ “Raven” lipstick is gorgeous and sexy– and works for all women. To add to this look, the eyes are light with tight black eyeliner.

Aveda lead stylist Antoinette Beenders created a 1960’s Parisian glamour “wave” updo using Aveda Control Force Hair Spray at the Christian Siriano Fall/Winter 2010 Fashion Week show in New York.

“The Christian Siriano hair look for this season is a Parisian chic updo—a surge of 1960’s glamour.” —Antoinette Beenders for Aveda

Q: What is the inspiration for your collection? What is the look you are capturing?
“The collection is inspired by 1960’s Parisian women and the idea of getting dressed up from day into evening. It is a collection filled with effortless, soft, romantic shapes and silhouettes that compliment strong, structured jackets, coats, and cocktail dresses.” —Christian Siriano