Pro Tips: Four Fall Beauty Trends
Get this fall’s runway looks at home.
By Christine Walewski
Photography by Natasha V.
Montreal-based makeup artist Margo Ducharme ( margoducharme.com) shares her tips.
Prominent Brows
- For a natural look, rub a patch of brown liner on the back of your hand. Using an angled brush, fill in brows with fine, hairlike strokes, focusing on the upper line.
- Balance out the look with only mascara and a bit of colour on your cheeks and lips, allowing your brows to be the prominent feature.
Cherry Lips
- Prep and prime with a wax-based lip balm, going a little over the lip line to help stop the colour from bleeding out to the fine lines surrounding the mouth.
- “Skip lip liner and blend a bit of concealer around the lip line to help define lips instead,” Ducharme advises. “Then, using a brush or your finger, blend colour into lips so it stains and sets.”
Intense Eyes
- Stick to a simple palette: Smudge black cream eye colour all over, from the lid to the crease and into the lower lashline. Add a few coats of mascara.
- “Keep your lips and cheeks pale,” Ducharme suggests. Use a barely there hint of blush to wake up the face.
Chilled Cheeks
- To create definition, blend a cream colour or a foundation that is a bit darker than your skin tone under your cheekbones.
- Using light, downward motions, apply a light pink or peachy powder or cream colour across your cheekbones. A bit of white or shimmery highlighter on the top of cheekbones (closer to your eyes) will further accentuate the sculpting. Tip: Try using your summer foundation as the darker shade needed to get this look.
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vic writes:
I enjoy reading your articles, especially the trends section. I understood the tips for eye, lips and cheeks, however my 14-year-old stepdaughter and her friend didn't. For instance, once we put the white highlighter on our cheekbones, where do we stop? Does it have to be smudged in? Similar questions for "lips." If you blend it in, then what's the point in applying lipstick? Are these points further explained in the magazine?
Thanks
—posted August 22, 2006 at 3:44 p.m.
cheryl writes:
I agree with Vic, the tips are a bit incomplete. The ideas are there but for the novice (non-artist) it is hard to follow.
—posted September 4, 2006 at 12:02 p.m.
Clarissa writes:
Hey. I just thought I should say that I'm using this site for a Power Point project that I am working on. It is for my Options class. And I have decided to do mine on Fashion. (:
Thanks for the information.
I have quoted it from Margaret Ducharme.
See ya!
—posted November 9, 2007 at 1:12 p.m.
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