Makeup Lowdown: Femme Fatale

After seeing many photos of the fair-haired Emma with her mega-watt smile and captivating eyes flashing the camera, the team knew we had to do a 180 and take her to the dark side- at least for one night. We threw around the idea of seeing Emma as a brunette with plenty of attitude and thankfully, she was more than game. Here is how we transformed the beautiful blonde into her alter-ego "Natalia" for another Choiyee-Kellen-Nadia production. The makeup look consists of an imperfect smokey eye; a little smudged to give her the I-don't-give-a-damn demeanor and a soft lip.

MAKEUP LOWDOWN:

1.  Prep the skin with proper skin care and moisturizers, primers. Curl the top lashes with Shu Uemura's eyelash curler (my favorite by far).
2. I always like to begin with the eye makeup, this is preferred because I can clean up any debris left behind without having to re-do the face makeup.
3. Start with sweeping neutral tones across the eye for your base. Next take a black matte shadow (Yaby in Abyss) with a wet shadow brush to the base of the upper eye and undereye.  Use the same shadow brush to sweep the color up into an almond shape following the natural crease of the eye. Use a dark brown (Yaby in Coco Powder) at the crease to help transition the dark black and the brow bone for that chromatic effect. 
4. Layer a creamy black eye paint on top of the black almond shape you have created for that messy, sultry look using a concealer brush or your clean fingertips. Try Makeup Forever Aqua Black Waterproof Cream Eyeshadow.
5. Line the inner waterlines of your eye with a soft, jet black liner (Stila's Kajal Liner in Onyx). Line close to the upper lash line as well.
6. Deepen the brows to match the darker haircolor with a brown powder or liner- groom the brows with a brush.
7. Clean up any fallout with a Q-tip dipped in makeup remover and coat your lashes with two layers of black mascara.
8. Perfect the skin by concealing any blemishes first with a creamy concealer, try Yaby's.  Follow with a mineral makeup in the correct foundation shade for your skin tone, try Jane Iredale. Set the base face makeup with a translucent powder.
9. Contour your cheekbones using matte neutral brown shades (I mix Clinique's "Teddy Bear" Eyeshadow Set) and then top with a peachy pink cheek shade onto the apples.
10. Give your pout a soft nude lip by lining your entire lip with a neutral lip liner (Rimmel's "Tiramisu" 1000 Kisses Lip Liner) and top with matching lip gloss. Voila!

Following this post will be the rest of the fashion spread shot by Choiyee Wong....stay tuned!

BACKSTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY: Dior Baumjohann
MODEL: Emma Pellet
HAIR: Kellen Eason
MAKEUP: Nadia Artistry

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