by Sam Donald
Victoria had a natural tan to her skin, but I smoothed it out with a very light cover of MAC select fluid foundation to giver her an even colour.
After priming her eyes with clinique touch base and setting her base with Benefit’s Bluff Dust powder, I set to work on creating a natural soft look to her face.
I applied a layer of MAC llama eyeshadow as a blending base, then dusted on a layer of Estee Lauder ‘Rose Confetti’ eyeshadow onto her mobile lid. I wanted to create definition to her socket line, so I gently blended in a soft grey pigment by MAC, Soft Washed, to her outer lashline and buffed it up towards her socket until it was almost invisible, but enough to enhance her lashes and create an illusion of a contour to her eyes.
Her lashes are beautifully long naturally, but I lengthened them with Lancome Fatale mascara after applying a very fine line along her top lashes with MAC liquidlast liner on the edge of a flat definer brush. Using black liner extremely close to the upper lashes creates the illusion of thicker longer lashes, but without the need for false lashes!
I wanted to create an invisible frame to Victoria’s eyes, so I selected a Christian Dior waterproof eyeliner in Brun. This particular liner is perfect for creating a barely-there line, or for adding real depth of colour, in Victoria’s case, I didn’t want it to look like she had eyeliner on, just naturally lined eyes, so I gently filled the gaps between her lashes with the liner, to create an optical illusion !
Her cheeks have been dusted with Smashbox Fusion Softlights in Intermix, using all 5 colours blended together and then applied lightly over her upper cheekbones, and stronger over her apples and under her cheekbones.
Her lips were lined and filled in with Dior lipliner in Biege Natural, and glossed over with Clinique RSVPink glosswear for lips!
