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Smashbox Backstage at Crispin & Basilio

I met up with Lori Taylor, lead makeup artist for Smashbox Cosmetics, backstage at the Crispin & Basilio fashion show durng LA Fashion Week.

Lori Taylor gave me a scoop to the makeup look at Crispin & Basilio for the Spring 2009 fashion show. The makeup look for the fashion show was achieved entirely with Smashbox Cosmetics. Watch how in the video blow:

Here is a recap: Donny Barrios, the designer for Crispin & Basilio, took his inspiration for the makeup look created in his spring 2009 fashion show from the New York shows. The makeup is very clean, fresh, and pretty for spring. The look is all about a perfect skin, blush on the cheeks, eyes lined top and bottom, lashes, and lightly stained lips. This soft makeup look created by Smashbox Cosmetics fits Crispin & Basilio’s collection perfectly this season, which is also very soft and pretty.

Some of the products used to achieve the makeup look for the Crispin & Basilio fashion show include:

Smashbox O-Glow Intuitive Cheek Color With Goji Berry-C Complex, $26.
Smashbox O-Gloss Intuitive Lip Gloss With Goji Berry-C Complex, $22.
Smashbox Jet Set Waterproof Eye Liner, $22. 
Smashbox Bionic Mascara, $19.
Smashbox Blush Rush in Chiffon, $24.

How To Update Your Look This Fall With Your Hair

When updating your look this fall, don’t forget about your hair.

Add style and shimmer to the accessory you wear every day- This fall is all about incorporating jewel tones, romantic florals and feminine embellishments into your look-but don’t stop there. The new Féria Multi-Faceted Shimmering Haircolour collection from L’Oréal Paris creates a more complete style update this season by adding beautiful, dynamic, shimmering color to hair.

Watch Joe Lupo, partner of Visual Therapy, a luxury lifestyle consulting company explaining how to update your look this fall with your hair:

“When you’re thinking about your outfit and creating your look this fall, don’t forget to consider updating your hair color because it’s the one thing you wear everyday,” says Joe Lupo, partner of Visual Therapy, a luxury lifestyle consulting company. Whether it is revitalizing a brunette shade with more shimmer, intensifying a blonde hue or making a bold statement with rich auburns or black – Féria hair color shades are right on trend.

How To Create Fall 2008 Must-Have Makeup Looks At Home

L’Oréal Paris and Allure have partnered to bring the runway to reality by recreating the hottest makeup looks seen on the 2008 New York fall fashion runways. From soft, romantic makeup to hints of metallic highlights to bold color, the runways showcased beauty at its best, inspired by the latest in fashion.

Collier Strong, celebrity makeup artist and consultant to L’Oréal Paris, suggests these top makeup trends to update your look for fall. Watch in video below:

Here is a recap:

Fall Romance
Romance is in the air this season with soft, smoky eyes and delicate, pale cheeks. Collier recommends achieving this look by using Bare Naturale Mascara in Black and Bare Naturale Eyeliner in Defining Onyx, two new products that bring attention to the eyes without overpowering the look. Add definition and a sweet kiss of color to cheekbones with a soft pink or peach powder, sweeping upwards.

Victoria Beckham Sultry Makeup

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Victoria Beckham’s Sultry Makeup

Who doesn’t want to be Posh Spice this Halloween? Follow these steps to copy her look

 

Victoria Beckham's Sultry Makeup

David and Victoria Beckham will be the couple costume of the year. Follow these step-by-step instructions from one of Victoria’s makeup artists, Director of Makeup Artistry for MAC Cosmetics Gregory Arlt, and learn how to recreate her signature makeup look. Pair this with a Posh-like wig and you’re set.

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How To Get Kim Kardashian’s Lips

Watch my video blog for today on how to get Kim Kardashian’s Lips:

Products mentioned in Marta’s Video Blog are:
Nars Lip Gloss in Turkish Delight.
Mac Cosmetics Lipstick in Angel.

How To Get Hollywood Style Hair Extensions

Long, full hair is always a key accessory for celebs when walking the red carpet. Whether worn in an updo or straight and sleek, extensions are the trick of the trade – once a Hollywood secret, and now a must-have.


Model Kasia Before Great Lengths Extensions.


Model Kasia After Great Lengths Extensions.

What’s been the solution for stars like Lindsay Lohan, Sienna Miller and Jenny McCarthy? They’ve turned to the trusted brand of Great Lengths Extensions, which offers the highest quality of human hair and a gentle in-salon application that won’t harm one’s natural hair. Certified Great Lengths stylists use various methods of application ranging from cold-fusion to thermal-fusion, which allow stylists to apply extensions with ease and accuracy. The results are an undetectable finish of shiny, full and glamorous hair.

Recreate Amy Winehouse’s Signature Makeup

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Recreate Amy Winehouse’s Signature Makeup

Her over-the-top look is guaranteed to be a hit at every Halloween party

 

Recreate Amy Winehouse's Signature Makeup

In the mood to channel this infamous, disturbed rock star this Halloween? Then follow these step-by-step instructions courtesy of Gregory Arlt, director of makeup artistry for MAC Cosmetics. Complete the look with a ratty, black bouffant wig (an Elvira wig at any costume shop will work perfectly) and you’re good to go.

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NARS Videos

Great News! Videos from NARS

NARS Cosmetics embarks on a mission to teach women makeup techniques! In response to consumer demand, NARS created four foolproof beauty videos, providing a step-by-step guide on achieving flawless skin, rosy cheeks, pouty lips and sultry eyes. The first two videos, featuring how to’s on cheeks and complexion are now live on NARScosmetics.com! Below is more information on each video:

Video 1, “A Healthy, Radiant Complexion,” features NARS International Senior Stylist James Boehmer giving tips and tricks on using foundation and concealer.

Video 2, “A Beautiful Cheek,” provides a detailed guide on achieving gorgeous, contoured cheeks by NARS International Senior Stylist Uzo:

 You can see a breakdown of products used to achieve the look by clicking “Click Here for the Steps in this Video.”

Two additional videos will be launched in the next six week, lips in early November and eyes in December. These videos will help keep you up to date with NARS’ products an expert techniques.

Natural Homemade Beauty Care Tips

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Natural Homemade Beauty Care Tips

Take control over your skin care (and improve your cooking skills) with easy DIY recipes you can make at home

 

Natural Homemade Beauty Care Tips

We present our favorite beauty recipes so you can cleanse, moisturize and exfoliate your skin the easy way. (And for those of you who just aren’t DIY-types at heart, we feel your pain; check out the natural store bought alternatives after each recipe.)

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Smashbox Cosmetics Backstage at Kevan Hall

I met up with Lori Taylor the lead makeup artist for Smashbox Cosmetics backstage at the Kavan Hall show.

Lori Taylor told me all about the makeup look for the Kevan Hall runway show for their spring 2009 collection at LA Fashion Week.

According to Lori Taylor, lead makeup artist for Smashbox, the makeup look for the Kevan Hall fashion show is high glamour, old school, old Hollywood with a modern twist. Instead of using black or charcoal smoky eye like in the 1920’s, Smashbox is using a softer grey and somewhat metallic shade to accent or to ‘smoke’ the eye.

Lots of black mascara is also applied. Not a lot is applied on the cheeks, for a radiant and perfect skin. The lips are just lightly stained. The look is smokey eye with some color on the lip, but not heavy with lipstick or a lip gloss. This look is a bit different than what we normally see for spring.


Fashion Designer Kevan Hall inspects his models’ look backstage.

Kevan Hall was inspired by Adrian who was a Hollywood custom designer in the 1930’s and 1940’s when planning the makeup look for his fashion show.

One product that you can use to achieve the look backstage at the Kavan Hall fashion show would be Smashbox Tinted Treatment Lipstick SPF 15 in Ray which can be worn by both men and women. It hydrates your lips with just a faint flash of color.

Smashbox Tinted Treatment Lipstick SPF 15 in Ray: This vitamin and antioxidant-packed sheer lip color has it all – a treatment core with SPF 15 to protect, vitamins A, C & E to revitalize, shea butter, jojoba and avocado oils to nourish, and chamomile and aloe to soothe. Honey provides extra moisturization and a deliciously sweet flavor and scent. TINTED TREATMENT LIPSTICK is sheer and fool-proof enough to apply anywhere – no mirror required!

Watch my interview with Lori Taylor, Smashbox’s lead makeup artist, where she describes the look backstage at the Kevan Hall show: