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On June 6th this year, it marked 15 years since the first episode of Sex And The City first made its appearance on air. If your reaction was anything like mine, you too would have been attempting to place where exactly the past 15 years have gone; they seem to have absolutely flown by!
Although this iconic television series ended in February 2004, its equally iconic characters and the show itself lives on strong through the movies that continued about the girls’ journey, the classic re-runs that play on our screens and the new television prequel ‘The Carrie Diaries’. To celebrate the journey of the show and its beyond fabulous main character, Carrie Bradshaw, I felt it would be quite fitting to base the first ‘Tutorial Tuesday’ on Love Letters To Beauty on her season 6 winter makeup looks, as every time I watch those episodes on DVD (more times than I’d care to admit), I just fall in love all over again with Carrie Bradshaw’s stunning and vivacious style and her gorgeous peachy/nude winter makeup looks that suit the divine Sarah Jessica Parker completely, who plays Bradshaw in the series.
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Now quite obviously, I look nothing like our leading lady and I also wanted to demonstrate how you can be inspired by the look and make it your own.
{Base} I began by priming the face to create an even canvas. Carrie’s base is quite matte with full coverage, so I then used a foundation brush and chose a creamy, med/full coverage liquid foundation, applied under eye liquid concealer and buffed a loose mineral powder with a large powder brush over the top, finishing with a transparent setting powder to ensure it stays in place and nice and matte.
{Cheeks} I contoured using a deep toned bronzer in the hollows of my cheeks, just beneath the apples, using a flat powder brush. A matte flushed powder blush with a hint of peach was applied to the apples of the cheeks using a medium powder brush and a using my fingers to warm it up and blend, I applied a creamy highlighter just above the blush, finishing at the temples.
{Eyes} The lid colour was built up using a shadow brush in a matte beige to begin with, then a small amount of peach mixed with a metallic creamy bronze. I then added touch of a nude gloss on the lids. In the crease of the lids, I took a chocolate brown mixed with a graphite shade and concentrated on the outer corners. A chocolate brown crayon liner was used to line underneath the lower lashes and then to the outer corners, blending well. A natural looking mascara was applied to both the top and bottom lashes. Brows were shaded with a taupe coloured powder and small brow brush, blending and brushing the colour through well with a clean mascara wand. I then finished the eye using a gold illuminating pencil on the brow bone.
Neena B. xx
{Lips} I used a pinky/nude lip pencil to fill in the lips before applying a creamy lipstick in the same colour, adding a hint of nude gloss only to the centre.
I love that this look can work for both day and evening, as if you were wanting to make it a bit more dramatic for evening, simply add more of the chocolate toned shadow in the sockets of the eye. It’s also a look that would suit anyone, however if you’ve got blue eyes in particular, this will compliment you just so brilliantly.
Yours truly,
Neena B. xx
