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Red Carpet Beauty – The Oscars 2008

Marion Cotillard strikes a pose

This was one of my favorite looks for hair, make up and wardrobe. Marion looked absolutely stunning in this Jean Paul Gaultier gown. She stood out amongst many of the starlets that night with her gorgeous cat eyes and cascades of sexy loose curls that framed her beautiful face.

To get Marion’s cat eyes start by adding some color to the eyelids first using a silver shimmer shadow. Try Vincent Longo’s Eye Shimmer Souffle in Pavlova, $24 at vincentlongo.com. It’s crease free and stays true for hours, perfect for red carpet beauty. For perfect cat eyes that will have everyone purring, try the Get in Line Eyeliner and Stencil Kit from beth bender beauty.  Each kit comes with a cat eye stencil and a smoky eye stencil. Follow the instructions included and create sexy cat eyes as seen here on Marion.

Give your lashes two coats of mascara focusing on the outer lashes and making sure to coat the top of lashes too for extra length and volume. Try LashBlast mascara in black from CoverGirl.
Give the cheeks a touch of color in a light berry hue and apply with a brush swirling the color around the apple of cheeks before blending up and into the hairline. Try Daisy powder blush, $26 from beth bender beauty.

Complete the look with a berry-red lip color. Try Vincent Longo’s Velvet Riche lip color in Rain Dance, $23 at vincentlongo.com. For fuller looking lips apply a lip pencil first and blend the liner into the lips. add a touch of gloss to the center of lips for extra pout appeal.

xoxo,

B

Red Carpet Beauty – The Oscars 2008

Heidi Klum sparkles on Oscar night!

Heidi Klum’s stunning red carpet look was made even more beautiful with her bold smoky eyes and bronzed cheeks. We loved the silver shimmer shadow on her eyes that lit up her face and made her one of our favorite red carpet beauties.

To get Heidi’s look start with a shimmer shadow in silver and apply to the eyelid and into the crease making sure to blend the color into the inner corners of each eye as seen here. Take the same silver shimmer shadow and sweep under the eyes before adding your black eyeliner. Try NARS Duo Eyeshadow in Paris. Use the silver shimmer on the eyelid and contour the crease of eye with the matte gray shadow as seen here on Heidi.

Finish with a black gel liner and begin applying right above the inner corner of top eyelid extending the liner out beyond the lashes.  For the best results use a thin and tapered eyeliner brush and tap along the lashline. Try Onyx Stay put Gel Eyeliner, $18 at bethbenderbeauty.com. Bring the gel eyeliner underneath each eye at the outer corners and blend into the lashline.

Finish with a fabulous black Mascara and some false eyelash clusters to complete Heidi’s  dazzling eyes. Apply one coat of mascara before adding the lashes to create a platform that will make them easier to slide in. Try Diorshow Mascara in Black, $24 at Sephora and sephora.com. Try Ardell Lash Clusters for sexy peeper’s that will have heads spinning.  Available at most drugstores and beauty supply stores.

Give your cheeks a beautiful bronzed glow with Soak up the Sun Bronzing Powder, $26 at beth bender beauty. A favorite backstage at the Oscar’s this year. Swirl the color on the apple of cheeks with a powder brush and blend along the cheekbones for a flawless application.  To finish add a touch of bronzer to the bridge of nose and forehead.

Finish with a pale pink shimmer lipstick, or lip gloss to compliment your beautiful smoky eyes. Try Paris is Burning from beth bender beauty, a pink beige shimmer gloss or Laura Mercier’s Pink Dawn Lip Shimmer , a light nude pink $22 at Lauramercier.com.

You’re red carpet ready gorgeous!

xoxo,

B

Red Carpet Beauty – The Oscars 2008

Jennifer Garner’s sexy smoky eyes

There was no shortage of sexy smoky eyes, alluring cat eyes, pale pink shimmer lips and red lips at this years Oscars. Our favorite beauties did not disappoint us as they made their way down the red carpet. We were loving all of the make up and hair and especially the different variations on the smoky eye and cat eye.  Starting with Jennifer Garner who looked lovely in a black strapless gown, gorgeous diamonds and smoky eyes that sparkled almost as much as her accessories.

Her make up was beautiful and we loved her smoky eyes done in a shimmery bronze, with a strong gel eyeliner in Black. To get Jennifer’s look start by sweeping a bronze cream shadow over the eyelids and into the creases blending out towards your temples. Try Bronze Shimmer Cream Shadow, $18 at bethbenderbeauty.com.

Next line the outer half of the upper eyelids with Onyx Stay Put Gel Eyeliner. Making it thicker as you line towards the outer part of eye as seen here on Jennifer. Smudge the line with a Q-tip  or brush and and extend the line slightly up and out beyond your lashes. You can also add a touch of gel liner in Onyx in between you bottom lashes using a thin a tapered brush. Keep the line soft and smudge with a Q-tip to avoid a heavy line.

To make your red carpet look even more eye popping add a few false lash clusters to the outer ends of each upper lashline.  Our favorite’s are the Andrea or Ardell Lash clusters and the must have glue if you can find it is the Sherani Eyelash Adhesive. The best we’ve ever tried.

Finish with two coats of rich black mascara. Best for your red carpet look and our favorite is Shu Uemura’s Basic Black, $27 at Sephora and Sephora.com.

xoxo,

B

Red Carpet Beauty

Count Down To Tonight’s Oscars

Give me sexy cat eyes like Alicia Keys please!

As we continue our celebration on beauty and get ready for tonight’s Academy Awards  here is another favorite of ours, the always beautiful Alicia Keys. Seen here looking simply sexy in her very perfect and striking cat eyes. This look is all about the eyes baby and to get these gorgeous cat eyes we suggest using the Get in Line Eyeliner Kit. You can create cat eyes as thick as Alicia’s seen here or as thin as you like using the cat eye stencil that comes in the kit.  Beth’s beauty tip:  Apply a black gel eyeliner over the cat eye and keep the color from smudging and budging all night long. Try Onyx gel Liner and apply with a tapered eyeliner brush.

Add some extra sizzle with a silver shimmer eye shadow and apply it to the inner corners of your eye lids. Try Double-O- Silver, $16 at beth benderbeauty.com.

Beth’s little beauty tip: Dampen the brush before applying the shimmer shadow for color that will outlast the night. Finish with a fabulous mascara and apply two coats. Our latest fav is Fiberwig, new from Japan and only available at Sephora.

Red Carpet Beauty

Count Down To Tonight’s Oscars

It’s only a few hours before some of Hollywood’s most famous faces will take center stage at this years Academy Awards. Most of them are already sitting in someones make up chair or having their hair done for the big night. Getting set to walk the red carpet and be camera ready, which let’s face it is the most fun and tomorrow every Beauty Blog site, magazine, and television will be talking about how they looked and how to get their look.

To get everyone in the mood for tonight’s Oscars we though we would share with you some of our most favorite beauty styles. Starting with Katie Holmes who looks so beautiful in this picture. Her make up is fresh and soft letting her own natural beauty come through.

Eyes: Get Katie’s look starting with the eyes first. Using a Cocoa brown liner. We suggest a Gel Eyeliner that doesn’t smudge. Try Cocoa, $18 at beth bender beauty. Using a tapered eyeliner brush carefully apply the eyeliner as close to the lash line as possible. Top and bottom as seen here on Katie. To add a little more pop to the eye apply a shimmer eyeshadow over the eyeliner and blend into the gel liner adding some color to the eyelid as well, try Ambra Eye Dust. Finish with two coats of black mascara, our new fav is Fiberwig, $22 and only at Sephora. If you’re feeling a little feline add a few individual lash clusters to the ends of each eye and give your lashes an extra coat of mascara.

Face: Use a tinted moisturizer instead of a foundation for skin that looks beautiful and sun-kissed. We just love Vincent Longo’s New Light Canvas Tinted Moisturizer, $38 at Vincentlongo.com. Use a brush for a more sheer application as seen here on Katie, or a sponge for medium to full coverage.

Cheeks: A soft cream or powder blush in pink depending on your preference and skin type. Try A little Crush Powder Blush, $26 at beth bender beauty. If your skin tends to get a bit more shiny go with a powder. With a blush brush start by swirling the color on the apple of your cheeks and blending along cheek bones. Use your fingers with a cream blush and start at the apple of cheeks making sure to blend color along cheek bone. Try Laura Mercier’s Cream Cheek Color in Oleander, $22 at Lauramercier.com

Lips: Finish with a lip color in a rosy-mauve or Berry as seen here on Katie. We like Dry Rose Lip Cream Color , $22 at Laura Mercier. For lips that are red carpet ready with sizzle apply a layer of Rosy-Mauve shimmer gloss. Try custom blended lip gloss in Sweet Thing High Shine Gloss, $16 at beth bender beauty.

Now you’re red carpet ready baby!

xo,

B

 I SPY BETH BENDER BEAUTY

 Evangeline Lilly and friends on the set of Lost in Hawaii. Our friend E-jay and fabulous make up artist stopped by the set to drop off some goodies from beth bender beauty. The biggest requests were the Get in Line Eyeliner Kit, Soak up the Sun Bronzer, and Beauty Balm in Bella.

Seen Jessica and Ashlee Simpson in Dallas dining with their guys. These ladies really get around.  Our little beauty spies tell us when dinner was over they each pulled out an Ooh Baby lip gloss and gave their pouts some extra glam before leaving.

Rachel Bilson in New York doing a press junket for her new thriller Jumper. One of our very good friends Pamela happened to be the make up artist touching her up.  A good thing since her gel eyeliner is Onyx from beth bender beauty and her lip color was Tallulah. Both on hand since Pamela uses a number of things from the line. Rachel had her Get in Line Eyeliner kit with her just in case, but Pamela had that too.

New to beth bender beauty Broadway sensation Idina Menzel and wife of Taye Diggs. They actually met when they were doing the Broadway hit Rent together years ago. Our publicist dropped off a few thing to Idina a few weeks ago and she flipped over the Get in Line Eyeliner Kit. She said cat eyes were her favorite and has been using it everyday along with the Paris is Burning Lip Gloss that she’s already ordered three more of.

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Celebrity Beauty – Mandy Moore 

Mandy Moore’s skin looks radiant and her make up is fresh using a tinted moisturizer instead of a foundation to let her skin shine through. To get Mandy’s look try Vincent Longo’s New Light Canvas Tinted Moisturizer. It gives your skin a sun-kissed glow with a hint of color.

For smudge proof perfect eyeliner try using a gel eyeliner instead of a pencil for color that stays put until you take it off. Try beth bender beauty’s Stay Put Gel Eyeliner in Onyx.

Get sweet cheeks just like Mandy’s using a rose color cream blush stick. Apply directly to the apple of cheeks and blend along cheekbones with fingertips. Try Shiseido’s Blush stick in Rouge Flush.

Finish with a sheer lip using a tinted lip balm instead of a lipstick. All the benefits of a  balm for smooth beautiful lips with just the right amount of color. Try Beauty Balm in Bella from beth bender beauty.

STILA’S TALKING SMOKY EYE PALETTE

I am a big fan of Stila and have always loved their products. There are a lot of beauty companies that have kits to help you to create perfect smoky eyes but this smoky eye kit actually gives you step by step instructions while you are doing a smoky eye. I love the colors in each of the kits and agree that it is definitely the next best thing along with the Get in Line Eyeliner and Stencil Kit, especially if you don’t have the luxury of a makeup artist on hand to do it for you. This kit paired with the Get in Line Smoky eye stencils in the Travel Set and you’ll be sporting sexy smoky eyes in no time baby.

Prescriptives Limited Edition Lip Strips  

All I can say is how cute!!  Have you checked these out yet? Prescriptives  limited edition Lip Strips and new for spring. There are five gloss shades in each compact, one for warm skin tones and one for cool. Cream, shimmer and sparkle finishes you can wear alone or blend together to create loads of different colors and looks.

The colors are so beautiful and each compact is infused with antioxidant protection and lots of skin conditioning ingredients that leave your lips feeling smooth and gorgeous.

Lip Strips are $29.50 and won’t be around for long so grab one for yourself before they disappear.