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It’s all about the Hollywood glamour when it comes to social media celebrity Kim Kardashian’s signature make-up look! We all know make-up can really do the trick in creating a 3-dimensional face with highlighting & contouring, defining the face with a pair of bold brows & smoldering eyes with thick layers of spidery lashes (lots of mascara & false lashes), feline black liners and cutting crease style eye shadow application.
Whether you like Kim Kardashian or not (it’s a love or hate, right?), you have to admit that her make-up is always well executed!
Kim Kardashian’s personal makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic knows the best when it comes to a well featured make-up look: make one part of the the face stands out the most, and keeping the rest of the face soft, clean and pretty.
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What does that mean? For Kardashian’s make-up, the eye area is usually the focus feature of the whole make-up look: strong eye brows & sexy smokey eyes…. the rest of the face? Clean sculpted face with appropriate placement of highlighting & contouring, soft lip colour, and natural looking blush colour for a healthy glow. Once a while, you will see her with her somkey eyes and a bright red lip too for public appearance, she still looks stunning too.
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Tommy’s Pro Makeup Artist Tip for Kim Kardashian’s Makeup Looks:
- Do the smokey eye FIRST before you work on your face (foundation, concealer, highlight & contour). This way, if there are any dark colour eyeshadow falls onto your cheek, it will be much easier to clean it up.
- Use colours that are two shades lighter for highlighting; tow-three shades darker for contouring. Make sure to blend well so the edge looks seamlessly. For more make-up How-To’s in Creating a Perfect Skin & Contouring, please read my previous blog post here.
- Contour, Highlight twice, Blush. Take a brush with bronzer fast and furiously go under the chin and down the neck to shade and slim, before focusing on highlighter on the bridge of the nose, light up the Cupid’s bow, chin and just above the cheekbones.
- Lots and lots of mascara please, on both top and bottom lashes! Use a deep black color mascara that gives both LENGTH & VOLUME. Add false lashes too for a even more sexy appearance.
- MUA Mario Dedivanovic likes to create the eye-opening effect by wiggling a couple coats of L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Original Mascara from the roots to tips and separating them with a lash comb. Then he painstakingly applies a mix of long and extra-long flared individual lashes—the longest go at the outer corners—using tweezers and black adhesive. Once they’re dry, go over the falsies and real lashes with another coat of mascara.
- Curl the lashes (your natural lashes & the false lashes) together after you put on the false lashes. This way, they stick together better and there is no gap in between.
- Do use a deep dark black eye liner for this look. Line it all around the eye and wing up at the outer corner of the eye for an instant eye lift look. Eye liner could be in pencil, gel or liquid. Kim likes to use M·A·C Eye Kohl (Smolder) deep into the base of the lashes to create that tight eye liner.
- For a strong cutting crease eye application, use a pencil eye liner to draw the line in the crease and the outer eye corner (like in a “<” or “>” shape in the outer corner) and blend it with a smudging brush… this way, the color shows more vibrantly in comparing to using an eye shadow.
- Do groom your eye brows with a brow gel to keep it stay in place all day long. Kim likes to use Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Medium Brown to fill in the outer corners, then switched to Light Brown so it’s softer and sweeter-looking when brows aren’t so heavy at the inner corners.
- For more make-up product suggestions, please check out my post: Make-up Artist Kit Essentials │ 彩妝箱必備美妝品
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It’s not hard to see why so many people love Kardashian’s makeup looks because the playfulness of the makeup look is dramatic.
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If are ever wondering about the products, some of her favorite foundation that she uses are from drug store brands and some are high-end department store brands:
Luminous Foundations – “Dewy skin is always so pretty—and I’ve found that guys are really into it too.”
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Rimmel Lasting Finish Foundation – This liquid foundation ($8 US) has serum in its formula to help the skin glow. It claims to be long lasting in sweat, heat, humidity conditions. The only problem is that it only comes in 7 available shades.
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Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation – This foundation ($8 US) is a favorite among many makeup artists for its: texture, great coverage, and wide range of shades. It comes in 24 available shades, while it’s an excellent choice for normal to oily skin types.
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Armani Luminous Silk Foundation – This buildable, medium coverage foundation ($64 US) glows the skin while helps to improve texture and blurs imperfections. Comes in 24 shades to match every unique skin tone.
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Charlotte Tilbury Magic Foundation – this full coverage, long-lasting liquid foundation ($44 US) is creamy, and it’s packed with vitamin ingredients to protect your skin while providing comfort. It comes in 12 available shades.
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Eye Liner Secret from MUA Mario Dedivanovic
Triple-Line your Eyes. If you only have one eyeliner in your bag, you’re doing things all wrong. “I usually do three or four layers of eyeliner,” said Dedivanovic. First, he works M·A·C Eye Kohl (Smolder) deep into the base of the lashes, then goes over that with M·A·C Liquid Liner (Boot Black), lifting it up lightly at the outer corners slightly and finishes with Anastasia Waterproof Crème Colorme Color. Why so much effort? “I do it because it gives beautiful definition and looks more expensive.”
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It’s glamorous & sexy, and the appearance photographs beautifully. You can really have fun in “playing” up the look with it.
Now let’s have a look at some of her signature make-up looks!
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VIDEO: Kim Kardashian’s Makeup with MUA Mario Dedivanovic
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I am forever looking for a foundation that works for me and Noticed that you had shown skin tones in Warm : One was Warm Tan and I also saw a Golden Dark. I would like to know where can I get these colors foundation, also would l like to know which color blush would be good for these colors and which red lipstick. I thank you so much.. Carolyn
Carolyn:
I would recommend you to try color matching foundation with your natural skintone, and also know what you want your foundation to do for you (eg. coverage? texture? with SPF? long-wearing?), these are all factors to determine what suits your need in a foundation.
Warm Skinton – the skin has a yellow undertone or golden-olive undertone. They tend to tan easily under the sun. People who look awesome in gold jewelry & accessories than silver. When they wearing a warm (orange) undertone red lipstick, they look brightened up. Most of the time, their veins are in green color (take a look at your wrist under natural light).
You can read more about it in my most popular blog post @ https://tommybeautypro.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/makeup-101-colour-theory-make-up-artistry/
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