Audrey Hepburn look

Audrey Hepburn Make-up Tutorial!

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Okay, let’s start!

First you need to put on some good music and be sure to have a good lightning source. My source of lightning was very good – but on pictures it looks like crap. Next time, I will take better pictures :/

Clean face + cream

Okay, make sure to have a clean face! I used some facial water, let it dry, then put on a good cream, so that your skin is moistured. I used ‘Matas Fugtighedscreme’/’ Matas Humidity cream’

Picking eyebrows…

Then you have to pick your eyebrows, so that they are in the desired shape. I just removed the worst ‘out of line’ hairs, but I should have probably prepared for this a month ago, making my eyebrows go slightly up in the end.

Foundation + cover up stick

I then put on a foundation. My product of choice was ‘Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid – Ivory 010’ and I put it on with a sponge – that works best for me J

Afterwards I used a cover up stick. I used my wonderful ‘Collection 2000 – light translucent 1’ which I bought in a drugstore in Edinburgh. It really saves my ass each day!

I used it at the root of the nose, where you’re always red, between my eyebrows, right under my lip, at my dark rings under my eyes and at my pimples!

(foundation)

(Here you can see the areas I usually cover with my coverstick and then rubbing it into the skin)

Blush

I then put on a blush. I used my ‘Natural Collection – Sugar Plum’. Again a product I bought in Edinburgh, which I can only recommend. The colour works wonderful on me and it stays on for hoursJ. Before applying on my chin, I lightly padded the backside of my hand to get the superfluous powder off. I then applied.

Powder

Afterwards I applied powder. This is because a strong blush doesn’t work for me, so I actually put on my powder afterwards to modify the blush. My choice of powder that day was ‘Gosh Pressed Powder – 03 Warm Sand’. I applied it with a brush with closed eyes and made sure that I covered my whole face and a bit of my neck, so the colour of my neck would match my face, just a little bit J The transition will be much nicer that way!

I then removed the powder which was on my eyebrows, so it would be easier for the next step.

Eyebrow pencil

I used my ‘Rimmel: Professional Eyebrow Pencil – 001 Dark brown’. I have very dark eyebrows, so if yours are a bit lighter, I would suggest perhaps a lighter colour like ash brown or something similar. But first I brushed my eyebrows to have the desired shape and then I was drawing my eyebrows.

I didn’t use gel or anything that would make them stick to the place I brushed them to, but that may be a possible thing to do.

Eyeshadow

I put on a vague eyeshadow. I used a champagne colour from my Dior-palette and a bit darker brown to go from the outer corner of my eyes like this:

Of course it wasn’t as visible as this, it is just to demonstrate.

(This picture keeps bugging me, so I will leave it as it is :( I used the two light shades for what I called 'champagne' and then the dark brown, as in the illustration above).

Liquid Eyeliner

I then painted the ‘cat like’ look she got. I used my ‘Gosh: Eye liner pen stylo ligneur – black’. You can see the shape I did on the picture.

As you can see it has this 'swirp' in the end. The eyeliner doesn't even go into the 'rod' of the eye (the innermost of the eye)

Eyeliner

I then used my beloved ‘Gosh – let’s twist eye liner – carbon black waterproof’. On the upper wet line of the eye:

 (the place I painted red)

Bending eyelashed…

Then I pressed my eyelashed with my eyelash bender. You all know what that is?

This instrument of torture, haha. I just used a cheap one I once bought in… H&M, I think.

Mascara

I then used my ’Lancôme – Hypnôse waterproof black’ mascara. It is really a wonderful mascara. No eyelashing lumping together or anything! You get these very fine eyelashes with length etc. I could talk about that mascara all day!

But I applied a lot on the upper lashed and very little on the lower lashed. I just wanted to make them barely visible.

You could with success use some false lashed on the upper lashline, as long as they only ad more volume – just a slight bit. I didn’t, however.

Eyeliner again…

I then used my ‘Gosh – 008 silver screen’ eyeliner in the inner corner of my eyes, to make it look lighter in there.

If I had had the money, I would have bought a very light gold or a white eyeliner, because brown+champagne with silver looked a bit strange, so I made sure to modify the eyeliner. I didn’t put a light eyeliner on my lower wet eyeline-thing. I wish I would have done, because in the end result my eyes looked a bit too small compared to Audrey’s.

Lip gloss

Finally I applied my lip gloss. I used a lip gloss I bought in the USA, called ‘love&beauty’ from Forever21.

(Sadly they don't look shiny on this picture... but they were!)

However, I would normally had gone with red lips – that makes you look so much more Audrey Hepburn a-like, but the party I was going too had this ‘we have to eat for two whole hours’ and I was like: food + me + red lipstick = disaster. So I went with the safe choice, but if you ever want to see the look with red lips, please, just write it to me, then I’ll do it J (with better pictures than this crap, I promise!)

Then the make-up was over, and this was how it looked so far….

Hair

I started out with loose, brushed/combed hair.

I then put it up like… twisting the hair around itself and hiding the ‘ends’ under the other hair. I don’t really know how to explain it better than this, I hope you can see it on the pictures!

Then I used this hair slide (I don’t know why the pictures kept getting blurred o_O )

I then used TONS of hairspray. I used what I had, which was Schwartzkopf’s ‘Poly Swing Hair Spray – Gloss, ultra strong (strength 4)’.

I took hair pins with me to the party in case the hair would drop down, but believe it or not, the hair stayed put ALL night o_o I even went to sleep with the hair and it was almost good looking the next day … XD

Hair result

Nails

For the nails I just made sure they were clean and plain and then applied a transparent pinkish nailpolish with a little shine to it. I used Rimmel’s ‘ Lycra French Manicure – professional finish – 445 French Rose’. It is such a delicious colour – every girl should own one. It has been my favourite nailpolish for …. Like forever, because it goes with everything!

The end!

And that was the end of that tutorial!

Hope it helped somehow, even though I didn’t look exactly like her, and the pictures were a disappointment :/ Bad, bad camera….

I will improve ... so until next time,

ciao!