The Bridal Eye a la Audrey Hepburn on my beautiful brunette bride in the first two photos

How to do the makeup on the brunette bride at the top....as I mentioned, I always start with the eyes. As I want the makeup to last all day & night, I normally begin with a primer for the lids, and my favorite is Laura Mercier's Eye Essential base in Peach. If you know anything about the color wheel, you will know that peach and blue are complimentary, and therefore, peach will hide blue, so veins on the lids will disappear. A little of this product goes a long way. On this particular bride, I began to line the eyes with a black pencil, preferably with some waterproof or water resistant capacity, as I try and make everything around the eyes as waterproof as possible for brides and their bridal parties in case of any tears of joy! I then take a small pointed smudge brush like Lorac 101(and now starts the importance of having all the right tools; there is no way you are going to do a beautiful makeup artistry on yourself or anyone else if you don't have a proper set of tools. I can, and have collected tons of different types of brushes for all sorts of application techniques. Pick a line and develop your set. Again, I will say that Eve Pearl (http://evepearl.com/) has a great set, and it is not too expensive. She has had some great promotions on it, and you get a black brush case also when you purchase the whole set, or start out collecting one or a few at a time from any line you like. Sephora also carries excellent brushes in their line and you have choices amongst the many artist lines there. Carefully smooth and blend the liner out from a thin to full line, which makes the eye look so Audrey Hepburn-like. I then added a light color on the lid with a medium fluff brush (which you can keep to blend the edges of your whole look, or keep a clean brush just for that purpose, took a medium tone and blended it with a larger smudger brush in the outer V of the eye & in to the crease softly. I then took the smudge brush and kept filling out the outer fullness of the liner until I achieved the Audrey-like proportions that I envisioned on this bride's eyes using a darker shadow, i.e. a smoky black. You must keep blending your colors. This is most important and also why you need the proper tools, and once I achieved that, I added a highlight color to the brow bone, and then to the inner corner of the eye, as I like to add light in that little area where we all seem to have darkness going on. My favorite highlight is Laura Mercier's Crystalline, a loose powder mineral shadow in a pale pink that is gorgeous on the eye or the top of the cheekbone to highlight. I then added individual lashes, and I use a combination of short and medium lengths, especially on my clients that have longer lashes, so it looks really very lush and natural. I haven't seen anyone else do it this way, so if you want to get in touch with me for a lesson, a group lesson for friends, or just have it done sometime with your makeup application, please get in touch with me. After the lashes dry, I blend them together with some mascara (you have read about my faves in prior posts, usually Covergirl's Lash Blast in Very Black) & now line under the eye, or not, depending on the look and the client, as they may love that, or not. You can line with the liquid liner and do all this by going over the line with any shadow colors you like, and under the eye line very thinly and go over/under with a softer highlight color, i.e. gold, or something to bring out the eye color. Don't forget to look for those flecks of color in your eyes. Lastly, before the rest of your makeup, take some moisturizer/primer or gentle eyemakeup remover and wipe away the fallout that will undoubtedly have happened from your shadows and you are ready to apply the remainder of your makeup to that gorgeous clean and primed face!

Okay, sending much bliss to all my readers, and there will be more to come on smoky eyes, foundations, blush, lips, etc. Hope you all will become my followers, and keep asking questions that you would like to have answered.