Glamorous New Year party make-up ... whatever your age: Expert beauty video tutorials for women in their 20s, 40s and 60s
By Katy Winter
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The party of the year is fast approaching and with only three more days left of 2012 your time to prepare for New Years Eve is running short.
Don't panic, FEMAIL has teamed up with Head Make-up and Trend artist for Benefit Lisa Potter-Dixon and home shopping channel QVC to share some exclusive high glamour looks for that all important night out whether you are a 20something disco queen or a 60ish vamp.
These video tutorials contain simple step by step guides to creating a showstopping look for three different women: 28 year-old Funda (who you might recognise from reality show Made in Chelsea), Kathy, age 45, and 62-year-old Annabel and all the products used are available on the QVC website.
20-something party make-up by Lisa Potter-Dixon for QVC
Benefit Complexion Kit and They're Real Mascara
STEP 1: PREP, PRIME & PERFECT
Moisturise the skin and then leave it to sink for one minute. Use an eye cream to add hydration (even in your twenties!), it’s also good at helping stop concealer creasing. Apply the eye cream on the orbital bone around the eye.
Prime the skin using a minimising balm to help reduce the appeared of pores and lines. It helps give foundation and even finish.
Perfect the skin using a liquid Foundation like Benefit OxyWow. Using just one pump of the liquid foundation and a brush, to give a more even finish, start from the centre of the face and move outwards. This helps avoid the tell tale signs along the jaw line. Less is more – you can always add to get a better coverage. Use concealer after applying foundation, otherwise you’re simply wiping it off.
Mix a highlighter with you foundation to give dull, Winter skin a luminous glow. (This tip was used at Matthew Williamson’s fashion show)
STEP 2: BRONZE AND BRIGHTEN
Apply bronzer using a figure of 3 on either side of the face to add contouring to the face, a la Kim Kardashian. Contour the jawline by adding bronzer under the jaw to slim the face down. Use a gold particle blusher to add that party season glimmer!
STEP 3: BROWS, EYES & LASHES
Benefit Smoking Eyes Kit and Ultra Shines Lip gloss
To create a smokey eye with just one colour pile the colour onto one brush and apply to the centre of the eyelid. Then blend outwards – no higher than the socket or out of the edges of the eye. Less is more so build the colour up.
Apply false lashes half way through so you don’t apply too much colour. Put mascara on before false lashes – bottom first so as not to smudge mascara on the eye lids. Measure the lashes as there’s nothing worse than wearing them too long.
Start and end where natural lashes do – cut them from either end. Wrap the lash around the finger to add a curvature to sit better on the eye. Apply black glue along the bone of the lash with an extra amount at either end. Then do the 'lash dance' for 30 seconds to make the glue tacky. If applying lashes yourself look down into a mirror and apply as close to the lash line as possible.
‘Pinch’ the false lashes and your real lashes together to ensure the falsies are as close to your lash line as possible. Line your waterline and underneath to add a more dramatic finish and more colour on the lid if needed.
Add highlighter pencil in the brow bone to help lift the eye.
STEP 4: LIPS
Apply concealer (in the same shade as yuor skin) to give a more nude look and to smooth out lips – pat on with a finger. Add Benefit Hoola Lip Gloss over the top for a a natural but groomed finish!
Beauty tips if you are 40ish by Lisa Potter-Dixon for QVC
STEP 1: PREP, PRIME & PERFECT
The same prep, prime & perfect as for Funda (above).
Benefit Havana Blush and High Beam Duo
Take your time applying foundation – it will stay on longer. Finish with powder where shine normally appears to give you longer staying power.
STEP 2: BLUSH AND BRONZE
Bronzer is often used to warm up the skin but for English Rose looks, or when wearing a heavy eye look bronzer can be too much so not always needed.
Benefit Cha Cha Tint was applied to Kathy with 3 small lines and then blended along the cheekbones. A highlighter was applied in dots along the brow bone and centre of nose, then blended. This gives a radiant, youthful look.
Benefit Coralist Powder was added on top.
STEP 3: SOFT AND SMOKY EYES
Do your eyebrows first so you know how much eyeshadow to use to avoid an overdone look.
Peek a Bright eye palette was used here with the lightest colour used first with darker colours in the socket.
Always blend well, even when you think you’ve blended, do it some more! Blend a softer line under the eye using a powder to bring it all together.
Benefit 7 Piece Best of Benefit Collection
Kathy already has eyelash extensions on so I just just used mascara on the bottom lases. Use a foundation brush around the eyes to tidy up any dropped eyeshadow powder.
STEP 4: LIPS
Like the legs and boobs rule, do strong eyes or strong lips, not both. We used a lip tint (same as the cheek tint) which will stay in place for midnight kisses!
A party look for 60+ by Lisa Potter-Dixon for QVC
Benefit Pore Fessional and Boi-ing Concealer
STEP 1: PREP, PRIME & PERFECT
The same prep, prime and perfect as for Funda and Kathy.
Remeber to always use concealer after foundation. Apply onto eye lids, which are 40% thinner than elsewhere on the face, to cover redness and avoid eyeshadow creases.
STEP 2: BRONZE & BLUSH
Benefit Hoola – a mattifying bronzer – was used to add warmth to Annabel’s complexion. Brush a figure of 3 either side of the face. This highlights points on the face that the sun would naturally hit to it looks natural.
Sugarbomb blusher was applied to the apples of the cheeks when smiling and brushed up to the temples.
STEP 3: BROWS & EYES
‘Browzings’ - a mixture of wax and powder and helps to define the eyebrows – brush along, against the hair line and then again in the ‘right’ direction. Defined eyebrows are a big fashion trend at the moment and give an instant ‘eye lift’.
Benefit Cheek and Lip Kit
On the eyes start with a lighter colour over the lid: no higher than the socket of the eye and no further out than the corners of the eye, otherwise the eye can look droopy. Use darker colours in the socket of the eye to add definition and make eyes appear bigger.
As women age their eyelashes become sparser and shorter so use a good mascara that lengthens and volumises – Benefit The Real Thing Mascara is great and dries to a glossy finish. Apply on the bottom lashes first, then top.
STEP 4: LIPS
Sugarbomb gloss is creamy and so won’t bleed like a lipstick can, whilst still adding colour and shine. After applying, go around the lips with the foundation brush to clean up the edges
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The best way to look good by the time you are 50 is to use a good eye cream and start using it in your 20's. I remember looking at my Mother's Vogue at 12, the beautiful Models... I wanted to look like them one day. So I started using Lancome eye cream and now 30 years later, People look at me and can't believe I'm over 50. Take care of it while you've got it girls... just saying (oh, and wear that bikini as much as you can because one day you just won't be able to do it anymore, and it WILL happen). Cheers!
- annie w , Los Angeles CA, 30/12/2012 16:23
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