Make Me Beautiful

In an attempt to ‘live young’, I looked into fashion magazines for this season’s beauty trend in search for eye shadow ideas, as opposed to my usual eye shadow style (the few times I bother with eye shadow;) Read: brown. If you read every magazine out there for a few months, you would realise that they feature eye shadow of every colour so I ignored the obviously magazine-styled ones, like many shades of green, yellow and blue, and have decided to accept the classy trend: the gold eyeshadow. There are two types. The first one is pure gold.

As you can see, pure gold basically means just plain gold all over the eye lids. The looks above are from the Chanel F/W08 runway show. Obviously I don’t recommend you actually taking this look literally in real life.

Another show that had all gold eye shadow was the Bottega Veneta S/S08 show. Here, it looks simple and elegant -perfect for day and night.

A closer look on the eyes. While it looks very effortlessly applied on, I’m sure we wouldn’t be able to replicate it quite as well in real life.

The way I’m planning on trying out this look is to first adjust by dabbing a tiny bit of the gold just at the inner corners of the eyes, so it will look as it does in the image above. Just a tiny dab to add a little something to the otherwise plain (but equally elegant) look. After trying it out a few times, I’ll move on to try the all-gold look (like in the other Bottega Veneta images, not Chanel!)

So I headed to M.A.C. and found this colour: Goldmine. The makeup lady applied the colour all over my eyelids and honestly, it looked more like sparkly yellow than the pure gold in the Bottega Veneta show. But since it usually takes me a very long time to accept new makeup colours on myself and I wasn’t bothered to search for the perfect gold, I just picked a Goldmine up. It’s something for me to look foward trying on my next quiet night out.

I’ll blog about the other gold eye shadow look soon! Thoughts about this gold look?

Image Credits: http://www.elle.com/ , http://www.style.com/

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The 2008 Teen Choice Awards event was aired last August 4. We have seen stars posed for the blue carpet but we have to admit that not all of them strutted stunning dresses. Some did well but there were some who totally mismatched fashion with commonsense. As photographers kept on clicking, taking shots of every angle they can get, let’s find out who won the “fashion” surf boards.

Leighton Meester, aka Blair Waldorf , opted to wear a green draped cocktail dress from Lanvin Spring 2008 Grecian collection. With this selection, she stand out on the crowd of mini and maxi dresses.

Blake Lively, aka Serena van der Woodsen, sported a mini purple one-shouldered Tadashi Shoji dress that allowed her to flaunt her legs.

The Teen Choice host Miley Cyrus sparkled in her tiered sequined Moschino Cheap & Chic Spring 2008 sequined dress. I like her dress but I don’t think it looked good with those boots.

The High School Musical star, Vanessa Hudgens wore a Catherine Malandrino three-toned tiered strapless dress without her wavy hair. She looked good with Zac.

I don’t care if this dress was suited for 10-year old girls, but I think Aundrea Fimbres looks cute in this strapless Elsie Katz Couture Spring 2008 mini tutu dress. The dress is made of chrysanthemum brocade with rulled petticoat and hand-formed crystal beaded blossoms. And look at those shoes!

Hayden Panettiere rocked a strapless cinched-waist dark-and-light pink washed dress with a half-up half-down hairdo. She’s glowing!

Lauren Conrad advertised her designs by wearing one on the 2008 Teen Choice Awards. She wore a sweetheart necklined maxi dress that is multi-coloured with blue, white, taupe and orange.

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Because she’s good.

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