Nina Dobrev Emmys Makeup

This look is really easy to do because its what I like to call a natural beauty enhancer, its not over done, but just emphasizes what is already beautiful on the face.  The colors are warm, and the palette is very often used by makeup artists for people wearing red.

What you will need:

eyes - a matte rust shadow - like MACs Rule

eyes - a matte dark brown shadow - like MACs Espresso

eyes - a matte black shadow - like MACs Carbon

eyes - a cream type liner  - like MACs Fluidline in Blactrack, anyone can do a cat eye with this

eyes - black pencil liner and white pencil liner

eyes - Black Mascara

eyes - Fake lashes (optional)

brows - a shadow that matches your brow colour

face - Bronzer to be used on temples, cheeks and for the shoulders, collar bone and cleavage
face - pressed powder for highlighting
face - Blush in a peachy coral color - like MACs Stunner or Peaches in powder form
lips - liner and tinted gloss - like MACs Boldy Bare pencil and Lusture Lip in Lishious

What to do:

Prepare the face with moisturizer, foundation and concealer (make sure you apply concealer and powder to the eye lid too if you are not using a primer, this will help the shadow last longer and prevent creasing and helps with blending) but if you can use primer, go for it. Also prepare the eyebrows by filling them in since this look does have a bold eyebrow.

1. Apply Rule to the entire lid from lash line to brow
2. Apply Espresso to the lid and into the crease
3. Apply Espresso again to the outter corner of the lid and bring it into about 1/4 of the lid, blend well and follow the shape of the outer eye socket to create a bit of a cat eye, achieve this with blending as opposed to creating a harsh line, you want to create smoke and smoke is created by diffusion of colour.
4. Take the carbon and with little product place it again on the outside corner of the lid, about 1/3 of the lid and blend out and up to darken the smoke, its important to add the black gradually since piling it on will be to harsh, remember diffusion.
5. Take your product like the fluid line and with a small angled lining brush line the upper lash line to the thickness you want keeping in mind how much of your lid is visible. Nina has it pretty thick, I wouldn't do this with the liner but then build up on it with more carbon afterwards so its not so harsh.
6. with an angled brush go over the fluid line with the carbon and create a slight flick for the cat eye.
7. Rim the top water line with black pencil eyeliner, and the bottom with white
8. Using a small eyeshadow brush, rim the lower lash line withe the carbon very close to the lash line and diffusing down.
9. If using fake lashes apply now and then apply mascara to top and bottom lashes

Apply bronzer to the temples and beneath the cheekbone and anywhere else that you need to create shade (jawline)

Apply the blush to the apples of the cheek and up toward the temple hairline
Apply a higlighter such as your pressed poweder in a  C formation on the top of the cheekbone and over the brow.

Line the lips softly using a lip brush to blend the line inward, and then apply the lip colour with a brush.

I have added a link to a video on youtube (not mine) that has a similar look which just so happens to be inspired by Nina, the application is pretty much the same, its just the colours are different, but its the placement that matters. The Makeup Chair

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Now go paint the town red ;)