How To: Create a glamorous purple smoky eye makeup look
Create a glamorous purple smoky eye makeup look with the makeup tutorial from Lauren Luke, aka Panacae81.
Create a glamorous purple smoky eye makeup look with the makeup tutorial from Lauren Luke, aka Panacae81.
Daytime makeup doesn't have to be blah. In fact, isn't the point of wearing makeup so you can show off your gorgeous features? Yeah, we thought so too.
Not all witches are green, warty, and cackle like hyena. Make it known that witches can be sexy and awfully seductive by creating this glamorous rock'n'roll inspired witch look for Halloween. Rather than acid green skin and brown warts you'll find perky pink cheeks, light gray eyes emphasized with false lashes, and coral red lips.
It's hard to picture Old Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner without their cherry red lips and thick black liner. Thanks to these timelessly glamorous stars, the retro pin up makeup look has been prized by women for decades.
Lauren, AKA QueenofBlendingMUA has joined the ranks with the other YouTube makeup gurus. Lauren is a makeup artist with a large collection of eye makeup video tutorials. Her eye makeup look span from everyday makeup to creative, more expressive party looks. Check out this makeup tutorial video to learn how to create a glamorous yet neutral eye makeup look. Search QueenofBlendingMUA on WonderHowTo for more beauty videos.
Back in the '40s through the '60s, it took very little effort for gorgeous starlet Audrey Hepburn to start new trends. Whether she was sporting a short pixie cute (as in "Roman Holiday") or wearing buggy sunglasses (vide "Breakfast at Tiffany's"), Hepburn was always on the cutting edge.
In the Age of the Smokey Eye, women who get glammed up with red lips and cat eyes are endangered species. Fifty years ago you would have seen nothing but, yet today the predominance of Kim Kardashian smokey eyes and nude lips has made anyone wearing red lips a wonder.
Like a mixture of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj is a woman of very confident and sometimes brash style. Whether it's her multicolored wigs, colored contact lenses, or pin up girl makeup with a neon streak, she knows what looks she loves and rocks them.
Umbrella lights are the surest sign of a photo shoot in progress, and allow you to create all sorts of clean well-lit looks for photographing people especially. This video will show you how to use them in film to create a glamorous look often used in music videos.
This hairstyling video tutorial will show you how to create a glamorous soft and flicked out curls that so many different celebrities wear on so many different occasions. Only a few people realize how quick and easy this hairstyle really is. You can create this hairdo right at home, using only a hair straightener. That's right, a straightener can curl!
Vampires are clearly the obsession du jour of the past few years, thanks in no small part to the "Twilight" movives, "True Blood," and the "Vampire Diaries" and the hotties who play the vampires in the moves and TV shows. And while we don't find being bitten and drained of blood by a dead guy all that thrilling, we do admit vampires can look quite mesmerizing.
If you've got a special event coming up like prom or a wedding and want to do something new with your hair, watch this video and learn how to give yourself this glamorous, elegant style. It's quick, easy, and sure to impress.
We love our neutral makeup colors, but when it comes time for a big bash we bring out the fun stuff. Experiment with color without totally plunging out of your comfort zone by creating the look presented in this makeup tutorial.
Everyone knows what Shakira's wavy hair is capable of, and the one hairstyle that stands out is her glamorous curled look. This video will help you recreate that curly hairstyle with only a curling iron. You don't need an expensive hairstylist to get beautiful hairdos! Only yourself and some time. These curls are also similar to hairstyles sported by Miley Cyrus and Kate on LOST.
When it comes to dressing up your face for the holidays, your LBD of makeup looks is without a doubt the classic neutral eye and red lip combo. Beautiful since the days of Marilyn Monroe, this look is timelessly feminine and sultry.
Dolls give us the heebie jeebies. Like gnomes, they have this lifelike look to them and to their eyes that's almost TOO lifelike, like the kind where they'll come alive at night and slash your throat (okay, maybe that's just us).
The trick to achieving the perfect smoky eye is glitter. Not too much glitter; rather, a strategic application adds instant pizzazz and liveliness to any matte black and brown shadows.
Erin Bried, author of "How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew," will show you how to wear red lip stick when you want to look glamorous. First, you are going to want to soften your kisser, which can be done by taking a damp washcloth or dry toothbrush and using them on your lips. After, you want to take a tissue and blot your lips. Next, you want to line your lips to prevent your lip stick from bleeding out. Make sure you line your real lips though, don't make your ...
This video hairstyling tutorial demonstrates one way to use a 3 barrel waver. Get a glamorous waves hair style. You'll need a heat protective spray (like VO5 heat defense), hair spray (like Finesse), a glossy shine serum (like Biosilk hair therapy), and a glove (preferably the heat protective ones). The curling iron used is the Hot Tools Gold Barrel Waver. Watch this instructional video and learn how to recreate a wavy hair style. Veronica Lake's got nothing on you.
Want to look like Veronica Lake or Marilyn Monroe? While can't guarantee you'll resemble these famous old Hollywood stars to a T, we can promise that once you complete this video's hairstyle you'll look like a retro vision.
Soft curls ruled the runway - a team of experts shows you how to get that look in this how-to video from Elle magazine. This look is reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour, like Veronica Lake. Watch this video hairstyling tutorial and learn how to replicate this polished and wavy look.
In this video, Betty Jean shows us how to make a Christmas bow and wreath. You will need a wreath the size you want, then open it and fluff it so everything is out and the green branches are facing outward. Next, choose a ribbon of your choice and poinsettias. Now, take your ribbon and make it even and tie the ends together. Now, make a bow with your ribbon and place it onto your wreath. Now, add on the poinsettias to your wreath and add on ornaments or anything shiny that you like. You can a...
This tutorial demonstrates how to make very cheap Christmas tree decoration using feathers and Christmas silver balls. Here a violet and pint feathers are used. The best way to buy feathers is to buy feather bows in which feathers will be fixed together using some wire or string. Now an inch long section of feather is cut from two different bows of violet and pink and the ends are glued. It is left to dry for a few seconds. Some copper wire and the silver ball are taken. Connect the wire to t...
In the dead of winter, here are some tips to change your image to something more stylish and sexy in a few minutes. Using the proper accessories such as a scarf, hat, and the proper coat, you can completely change your look. Combinations of different accessories are just what you need to transform your look without having to change your clothes or your hairstyle. This video is a very interesting way for the average person to switch up their looks and look fashionable in the winter.
Bettie Page was the ultimate pin up girl. Naturally curvaceous and blessed with batty eyes and full lips, Page was adored by men all over and had women copying her every hairstyle and makeup look. It's no wonder, then, that we still see so many interpretations of her signature pompadour hair look today.
Recreate the dramatic, sexy costume in this how-to video in minutes; it's the perfect last-minute costume. Makeup artist Greg Arlt shows a way to use makeup to create a masquerade style makeup mask. You will need nude lip liner, black theatrical makeup, and glitter. Watch this video makeup lesson and learn how to duplicate this eye-catching bat mask for a Halloween costume. Create a glamorous Halloween bat makeup mask.
Michelle Phan replicates the entire Lady Gaga Poker Face look: hair, accessories and makeup! You don't need the blonde wig or anything, they're just for fun. The gloves are sick though! Love them. This look is great for prom, clubbing and other glamorous occasions.
In an age of trend-following stars and fast fashion turnaround, there are few celebrities left whose looks hearken back to the golden age of Hollywood.
This makeup look is perfect for anybody wanting to wear blue jeans and a tee shirt and still look glamorous. If this sounds like the look you want, check out this video tutorial which will teach you how to apply this vintage rose makeup look. It shouldn't take too long to apply, but it fits perfectly with your relaxed look.
Don't hurt yourself putting on false eyelashes. Use celebrity stylist Damon Hamilton's quick tips for putting on false eyelashes and look glamorous all night long!
The trouble with wearing makeup looks inspired by Halloween is there is a VERY fine line between festive and tacky. For instance, painting teeny little candy corns all over your face? Tacky. But painting a glittery candy corn inspired eye look with white, yellow, and orange on your eyelids? Very seasonally pretty.
In this video, we learn how to get a classy rich makeup look with Shar Connolly. You will first do your foundation, using a brush to make a matte look on your face. Use a concealer under the eyes to cover and dark circles. Next, grab a coffee eye pencil and eye line your upper and lower lids. When finished, color your entire lid with the same pencil, making the line darker on the top of the lid. Now, use a brush to mix in the color all over and give it a smudged look. Next, pat a light eyesha...
A strapless dress is a smoldering, make-'em-weak-in-the-knees choice for any glamorous occasion. But getting both a beautiful dress and one that fits you to a tee is rather difficult.
As much as we'd all love to sport perfectly wavy, messy beach hair every day during the summer, sometimes it's just way easier to tie our locks up in a ponytail and forget about it.
Celebrites make party hopping look so easy. Flitting around from red carpet event to after party to after after party, they always seem to look so flawless in their pictures. But here's a little secret: They have some help from Hollywood's top hairstylists.
We understand that bread and biscuits aren't exactly the A-list stars of your Thanksgiving table. Most families serve the bread before the meal begins as a sort of appetizer and then the bread is disregarded as other savory dishes pile in.
You don't have to wear a costume or a tacky headpiece to look festive on Halloween. Whether you feel like you're too old to dress up or simply want to make your Halloween look more glamorous than in your face this year, this spiderweb eye look is pitch perfect.
Evan Rachel Wood, also known by "True Blood" fans as vampire Queen Sophie Anne, has for the past few years been a big fan of retro, glamorous makeup inspired by screen sirens of the 1950s. She adopts this retro look on "True Blood" with voluminous curls, winged cat liner, and red lips.
Veronica Lake is without a doubt one of the most beautiful actresses of all time. And her signature hairstyle - lightly curled hair let down with a very deep side part and bangs cascading over one eye - is still copied by celebrities on a consistent basis.
Beyonce makes just about any hairstyle look damn good and worthy of imitation. While she generally rocks a glamorous loose mane of hair, sometimes curled, sometimes not, when she hits up more formal events she likes to style her locks into a bun.