PARADE

Beauty On Parade:

Beauty Secrets You Can Steel From The Silver Screen

Couldn’t your face use a little star quality? “Strip away their makeup, and celebrities are just women.” says Michele Burke, an Oscar-winning makeup artist for Hollywood’s leading ladies, including Renée Zellweger and Penélope Cruz, Whose makeup has to not only look great but also has to hold up for hours under hot lights. “It’s knowing the right products and the little tricks that gives the stars the illusion of being perfect,” Burke adds. Burke is also a consultant for Max Factor, so she knows how to work her trade secrets with everyday beauty products. She used Factor’s new long-lasting makeup on our two models to show us how. Even if you don’t start out with Renée’s skin or Penélope’s expressive mouth, there are plenty of insider tips here for you.

How To Get A Natural Look:

1. Smooth on foundation lightly, only where needed, to even skin tone.

2. Holding a fluffy brush in one hand, tap it lightly with the other hand, so blush falls in pixels on the apples of cheeks.

3. Pat on powder to set foundation and blush. Use a fan brush to blend seamlessly.

4. Pick a shade of mascara that matches your natural hair color.

5. Separate and highlight lashes by lifting them up and out with an eyelash brush or a clean mascara wand.

How To Accentuate Your Eyes:

1. Dot dark-brown pencil along outer corner of top lid and along bottom lid, above and below the roots of lashes, concentrating on outer corners. Smudge it.

2. Smooth a dot of foundation on the lid and under the eye, on any dark areas. Blur it slightly into the pencil. Powder, if moist

3. Using a soft brush, dot and smudge eyeshadow along pencil lines.

4. Apply a little taupe powder eyeshadow under the brow bone.

5. Rub a nude shade of lip pencil all over lips. Add shine with a garnet shimmer topcoat.

• Play up your best features to draw attention to them
• Ignore your weak features. Don’t try to camouflage them.

• Layer makeup. Blur and blend it as an artist would an oil painting.
• Avoid strokes, swipes and straight lines when applying makeup. Instead, tap it… pat it… dab it on.
• Don’t hesitate to use your fingers to apply, smudge and customize your makeup.
• Apply makeup in natural light or check it in daylight before you go out.
• Use a magnifying mirror for polished results.
• Avoid black eyeliner and mascara. Try to match your actual hair color.
• Emphasize either the eyes or mouth -not both- on any given day.
• Smooth a little foundation on the backs of your hands, to beautify skin on a glam night out.
• To give drama to the eyes, adhere “cluster lashes” (medium length) to the outside corners of upper lids.
• Use a little of the same blush that you use on your cheeks and apply it just below the brows, to highlight the bone.
• To detract from red, tired eyes, line the liquidy inner bottom rim of each eye with ink-blue pencil. Blink to transfer it to the top rim.
• Wear red or orange lipstick to make yellow teeth look whiter; wear pink or mauve to compensate for grayish teeth.

Personal Best

By Elizabeth Gaynor

Frankly, before interviewing Michele Burke, I hadn’t realized how close movie makeup is to that of real life.

On the big screen, the face is ultra-magnified, like it would be in your makeup mirror. subtlety is key. The idea is for others not to come away thinking, “Wow, all that makeup looks great,” but rather, “Wow, she looks great!”