Step-by-Step Halloween Make-Up: Zombie

Find out how to re-create this deathly Zombie look with your everyday beauty bag. Follow the step-by-step photo gallery on Grazia!

Step-by-Step Halloween Make-Up: Enchanted Forest Deer

Find out how to easily create this look with my step-by-step photo gallery on Yahoo!

Christmas Day Make-Up Tutorial

What make-up look will you be working this Christmas Day? I like to go for something that's extra special without being too full on, beautiful and glowy with a natural finish.

Follow my step-by-step tutorial of how to achieve this beautiful Christmas Day look with Yahoo! Lifestyle here!

Halloween Zombie Makeover: Step-by-Step Tutorial On Yahoo Lifestyle UK

Halloween is nearly here! But you don't need to rush out and buy loads of costume make-up, just raid your beauty bags for green and brown eyeshadow and lots of red lippy. Check out my Halloween zombie make-up tutorial on Yahoo Lifestyle UK here, hope you like it!

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Smouldering Dusky Pink Shadow (Urban Decay Naked Palette)

Always a shadow fiend, I bought the Urban Decay Naked Palette, £36 recently, and it is amazing. The colour palette amazingly versatile, a collection of staple shadows which should be in every make-up bag.

Here's a look I created using Sin (a light shimmery pink), Toasted (satin pink) and Hustle (deep purple)

Such a good colour combination for green eyes!

To create a subtle smouldering look applied Hustle on the outer edge of the eyelid and below the lower lash line using a narrow shadow brush. I used a Toasted on the mid section of the eyelid, with Sin acting as a highligher in the inner corner and below the brow.

I used a clean, soft shadow brush in circular motions to create a gorgeous smokey finish. 

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A Gorgeous Summery Step-by-Step Make-Up Look

As summer approaches (albeit very, very slowly) it's time to start thinking about getting a gorgeous, natural, summery make-up look. One that's perfect for an evening of sipping Pimms in your favourite sun dress. Excessively large sun hat optional.

Here's a beautiful, soft, sun-kissed look that I tried out on my dear friend Anna.

Before: Anna without make-up

Apply a few dabs of Laura Mercier Illuminating Tinted Moisturiser SPF20, £33, for a healthy glowing complexion - it's a really light product which feels amazing on the skin, perfect for summer.

Apply NARS Cosmetics Multi-Use Stick in Puerto Vallerto, £30 (a sweet shimmering orange) to the apples of the cheeks. Enhance cheek bone definition by applying a light bronzer (such as Maybelline Dream Terra Sun in Light, £5.99) to the hollows of the cheeks and temples.

Build the eyes with a golden bronze shimmer, with darker tones on the outer edges of the eye. I used the Urban Decay Naked Palette, £36 (mainly Half Baked and Darkhorse) Then add a sweep of highlighting powder to the brow bone, such as MAC Cosmetics shadow in Nylon.

Add a line of Clinique's Brush On Cream Liner in Smoke Grey, £15, extending into a flick on the outer corner of the eye. Always do this with the eye open, so the flick follows the natural line. 

App a few sweeps of a mineral powder to the t-zone area for a super flawless complexion. I used Rimmel Stay Matte Powder, £3.99

Add a golden pink to the lips, such as MAC Cosmetics lipstick in Plink! £14

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Woo all the Boys... with MAC 'Ruby Woo' Lippy

MAC lipstick in Ruby Woo, £14.00, available from MACcosmetics.co.uk and MAC lip pencil in Cherry,  £11.50, available from MACcosmetics.co.uk

I have a hot new love in my life (and it isn't a man. Who needs 'em?) Nope, it's MAC lipstick in 'Ruby Woo'. I absolutely love it. Such a glorious deep red, it adds instant glamour to any outfit. It doesn't dry out the lip, and feels nice and velvety on application. Here's my New Year's Eve make-up choice, featuring the treasured lip wear:

Top Tips for Red Lip Perfection

1. Invest in a matching lip pencil. MAC's lip pencil in 'Cherry' matches 'Ruby Woo' perfectly, and will add clarity and perfection to the lips. 

2. Optimise your pout. Use the matching lip pencil to create a cupid's bow, and add fullness by going slightly over the edge of your bottom lip. Apply the lip pencil to the entirety of the lip if you want your red to stay put all night long.

3. Think about colour clashes. Avoid blushes which are pink or red based, and opt instead for a blush which looks closer to a bronzer. I wore Benefit Sugarbomb Face Powder (and focused on the bronze/golden shades of the palette) The same applies for a highlighter - I used Barry M's Dazzle Dust in Gold Iridescent. 

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Gold and Turquoise Shimmering Eyeshadow Effect

For a gorgeous Arabic inspired shadow effect, try a shimmering gold across your eyelids, fading into a rich turquoise. So Princess Jasmine. Here's how I got a look fit for Aladdin's finest cave...

How-to
1. Sweep a warm gold shade across your eyelids.
2. Add a few dabs of Benefit Sun Beam Illuminator below your brows and blend down into the golden shadow
3. Now apply the turquoise. Start in the far corner and gradually blend into the gold. The turquoise should be darkest at the very corner of your eyelid. A good eyeshadow brush makes this look a gazillion times easier.
4. Complete the blend with a few sweeps of gold into the blue shades. Voila, prettier than a butterfly!

Top tip: Notch up the drama of this trend by extending the turquoise out into a delicious feline point.

Eyes by Topshop in Gold, Maybelline Cream Gel Shadow in Tenacious Teal, Benefit Sun Beam Illuminating Lotion, Eyeshadow brush from The Body Shop

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Be Spooktacular this Halloween

Last minute Halloween party with no outfit? DISASTER, non? Fear not and think fast, as you have the essential tool kit right in front of your eyes. Behold the potential of the humble make-up bag:

In five minutes you can create this 'drop dead' gorgeous effect, for free, without using harsh face paints which can dry out the skin.

My Frankenstein tool-bag consisted of:

Red lippy (cheaper the better, don't be using your Chanel Rouge Allure on this look!) I used Rimmel's Lasting Finish, in Alarm 170, £4.99, available from Boots.
Red Gloss (for that oozy blood effect) I used Maybelline's Superstay Tint Gloss in Lasting Pink, £6.99, available from Boots.
Black, blue, green and purple eyeshadows (again, the cheaper the better) I used a mixture of brands, ranging from Rimmel's Colour Rush Mono Eyeshadow in blue and green, £3.99, from Boots, to a highly pigmented pink MAC Eyeshadow in Tease to Ease, £16.50, available from MAC Cosmetics. Of course it all depends on what you have handy in your bag - but rusty browns and greens are great for creating an authentic-looking head wound. Joy!

My top tips for getting ghoulish:

1. Apply your usual base make-up. This will help to prevent the additional effect make-up from absorbing/shifting on your skin.

2. Start with the shadows. Blend black shadow into the sockets of your eyes, hollows of your cheeks and temple area. This will instantly give you a skullish appearance. Spoooky!

3. Blend in blues and pinks to the black shadow around your eyes, making the skin appear bruised and zombiefied.

4. Take a bronze shadow and apply to where you will be creating a head wound. Apply red lipstick in a wound shape, then add more bronze shadow to create a dirty, bloody wound. I use eyeliner to create contours in the wound, i.e. make it look deeper, by outlining one edge and smudging slightly. Add a few dabs of gloss over the top for a really sticky, bloody effect.

5. Add comical stitches as your heart desires using black eyeliner. Great fun.

Muwahahaha! Who said Halloween needn't be glamourous?