Over the summer, I got a makeover/makeup lesson with the fabulous Diana Changanaqui of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. She talked to me about some of the top beauty trends for fall: metallics, nude lips with sheer color, smoky eyes and chrome–even on lips!
Chrome for eyes, I get. Diana used Bobbi Brown’s Metallic Long-Wear Cream Shadow in Chrome Patina on my eyelids and it looked stunning. Thankfully, she skipped the silver lips and went with a more natural pink. But over Halloween, I was a silver superhero one night so I figured what better time to try the trend.
A publicist sent me Rimmel’s Stir It Up cream shadow in No Way!, which I spread over my lids for the perfect superhero sparkle. I then put on clear gloss and pat loose chrome eyeshadow on my lips. I looked in the mirror and death stared back (Keep reading to see what I mean).
But that’s the beauty of trying makeup trends. If you hate them all you need is a wet wash cloth. I wiped the chrome off my lips, applied chrome to my nails (which guys hated by the way) and went off to my party.
Chrome eyes? Love.
Chrome lips? My scared face in this pic says it all.
Photo credit: MAC
Oy. Any sort of gray or silver on the face is tricky, I think, because of the “death” factor. The eye shadow is fun, but you’re right — the lippie is a scrubber.
http://closetaltar.blogspot.com
I still want to know what the chrome lipstick looks like on me. I’m afraid it’ll be ashy and I’ll look like a crackhead :/
DWJ, I don’t think you could ever look like a crackhead!
But I’m not saying the chrome lips will work. Do you have silver eyeshadow? Instead of buying a whole new lipstick, try this trick I learned from MAC makeup artist John Stapleton: you apply a gloss to your lips, the stickier the better (I used MAC’s lipglass) then pat layer after layer of eyeshadow on top of the gloss. It’ll stay on your lips for a while.
[...] ThinkThruFashion tries out fall’s chrome beauty trend. var linkwithin_site_id = 32605; (function () { var elem = document.createElement(’script’); elem.type = ‘text/javascript’; elem.src = ‘http://www.linkwithin.com/widget.js?rand=’ + Math.random(); document.getElementsByTagName(’head’)[0].appendChild(elem); })(); Submit this:del.icio.us Digg it iFeedReaders ma.gnolia reddit Scuttle StumbleUpon Yahoo MyWeb [...]
[...] of Mascara wonders how old is too to be rockin’ glitter nail polish? ThinkThruFashion tries out fall’s chrome beauty [...]
[...] ThinkThruFashion tries out fall’s chrome beauty trend. [...]