Monday, October 12, 2009

Lauren Conrad at the Style Awards: How to Create Feminine with an Edge





At last night's 6th Annual Style Awards, Lauren contrasted an ultra-feminine look with a rock twist, from her floral bubble dress paired with studded punk pumps to her braided half-up-do and soft curls contrasted with a hot pink lip and black liquid liner, all in honor of her stylist Britt Bardo, to whom she presented the Style Star Award. I am obsessed with mixing things up because overly girlie comes off a little cutesy, while overly punk comes off... well, just that...




To create the look, I first filled in her entire lip with Kissink Lip Tintmarker in Berry Bitten, a lip stain favorite of ours that lasts all night yet isn't dry or flaky. Then I added a coat of Lip Exotics Lip Lacquer Hook Up in Pop for a luscious wet look with a huge color impact. For her cheeks, I applied Just Pinched Instant Blush Tint in Cheeky, a perfect true pink cream blush, on the apples of her cheeks then dusted above her cheekbones in Twinklebelle (Rose), a shimmery pearlized powder that I also used on her collar bone and shoulders. Finally, to keep all of the emphasis on her winged-out cat eyes (Get In Line Liquid Liner Hook Up in Painted Black), I left her lower lash line undefined, except for a coat of Make It Big Mascara in Raven.



All photos courtesy of WireImage, Life.com, Just Jared and Mark Cosmetics.

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Growing up in a political family in DC, Amy Nadine spent her childhood campaigning door-to-door and stuffing envelopes. But by 12, she already had subscriptions to Vogue & ELLE, and you could always find her on every bus with either her nose deep in the pages of beauty & fashion, or doing mini make-over’s on all the staff members. Since then, she has worked on Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port, 90210's Jessica Stroup, Shenae Grimes, Shannon Doherty and AnnaLynne McCord, Jordin Sparks, David Archuleta, Hugh Jackman, Denzel Washington, Patrick Dempsey, Krysten Ritter, Khloe Kardashian & Jack Johnson, among others. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Seventeen, Zink, ELLE Girl and Fitness, to name a few. In 2009 she developed two lip glosses for Mark Cosmetics after doing Lauren Conrad’s beauty campaigns for the brand. Amy Nadine is known for her intuitive ability to define and accentuate the natural beauty of every face she touches. She prides herself in being an expert in her field, always studying color trends, cosmetics formulations… anything & everything make-up-related, and pinches herself daily that she’s made a career out of one of her greatest passions.
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