Top 3 Spring Beauty Trends for 2012 by Cris Sun

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING!  What better way to celebrate than with a dash of beauty?  For today’s post - I asked makeup artist and friend,Cris Sun, to weigh in on the season’s hottest trends for your face.  Here’s what she had to say:

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There is no other word for this season’s Makeup but ECLECTIC. I saw bronze to opalescent skin, shiny to matte lipstick, nude to dramatic and the list goes on. There were also lots of reinventions. The typical nude face was paired with neons, cat-eyes weren’t just black but had double wings or were lined in color, blush went beyond the cheeks, brows were bold but groomed, two tone ombre berries on lips, and the classic red lip walked down NYFW runways of S/S2012 in many shades and textures.

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[NUDE & NEON]

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Prabal Gurung: ombre lip

Jason Wu: bright lip

HOW TO DO IT AT HOME:

[FACE]

  Apply a tinted-moisturizer in your shade all over your face (I recommend 

Nars

 or 

Bobbi Brown tinted moisturizers

).

[EYES]

  Next add a light pressed-powder in hallows of eyes. Then rim the entire eye w/ a beigey-silver or gold shimmering shadow (I recommend 

Chanel’s Beige Lame

 or Blazing Gold). Make sure to apply the shadow eye lid to crease & inner corner to outer corner. Using a black liquid liner tightly apply to the upper and lower lash-line. A light application of black mascara to top and bottom lashes.

[LIPS]  

Coral matte lips were achieved with a M·A·C pro-artist combo: 

Redd Lip Pencil

Scarlet Ibis Lipstick 

(available Spring/Summer 2012) applied over the entire lip w/ M·A·C Pro Acid Orange Pigment patted over the lips. but I recommend just an application of matte coral lipstick like (

Illamasqua’s lipstick in Over a matte vibrant coral

). Whaaa-la!

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[BRONZED & NATURAL]

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Michael Kors: bronzed skin

HOW TO DO IT AT HOME:

[FACE]

  Tinted-moisturizer in your shade (I recommend 

Nars

 or 

Bobbi Brown

) applied all-over the face. Powder bronzer

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w/o any shimmer (Bobbi Brown matte bronzer in Dark for darker skin tones and Light for lighter skin tones) applied to the areas of the face where the sun first hits.

[EYES]

  Add a dash of peachy beige shadow (

M.A.C’s Samoa silk

 or 

Orb

) across the lid and coat lashes with mascara w/ a light touch.

[CHEEKS]

  Pop a small amount cream blush to apples of cheeks over the bronzer (Josie Maran has the best fool-proof sheer cream blushes in Coral or Nude beige).

[LIPS]

  While you’re at it, just add a little (

Josie Maran Coral

 or Nude beige) on your lips also.

[BROWS]

  Lightly fill-in your brows a shade lighter than your natural hair color if you’re not too blonde (

Chanel Crayon Sourcils brow pencils in 10 Blonde Clair 

or 30 Brun Naturel for light hair, 40 Brun Cendre for dark hair) brush clear brow gel through the hairs to keep them in place. You’re DONE!

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[THEATRICAL EYES in METALLIC]

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Badgley Mischka: colored cat eye

HOW TO DO IT AT HOME:

[FACE]

 Apply a tinted-moisturizer in your shade all over your face (I recommend 

Nars

 or 

Bobbi Brown

).

[EYES] 

A more wearable version would be to use a metallic cream shadow to apply just a wash of the color to the lids with a cream shadow brush. I recommend

cream shadows from NARS

, Mousson a silvery sage, Cosmic Girl a pale gold shimmer, Corfu a shimmer taupe or Pearl Beach for a shimmer opal effect on the lids. Next apply lots of dark black, brown or purple mascara to top and bottom lashes.

[LIPS]

 Use a soft sheer lip gloss like

NARS Tiber

a nude beige or

Odalisque

a cantaloupe color.

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Donna Karan: burnt red lip

Photos/Makeup credits:

MAC Pro Artist Charlotte Tilbury who along with other Pro-Artist created looks for Jason Wu, Prabal Gurung, Donna Karan, Peter Som etc.

Makeup Artist Dick Page for Michael Kors.

Makeup by M.A.C Pro-Team for Jason Wu

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