Get The Look: NARS Runway Beauty

With the help of three videos, NARS cosmetics illustrate how everyday women can achieve glamorous looks, straight off the runways of Fall/Winter 2010 New York Fashion Week.

NARS makeup artists Jenny Smith, Uzo and Jane Richardson outline the three key steps for recreating the makeup looks from top designers’ fashion shows for which NARS created the look: 3.1 phillip lim, Marc Jacobs and Thakoon, respectively. Each video, filmed backstage at New York Fashion Week, features a wearable take on the stylized NARS runway look that will be easy for women everywhere to recreate.

Always a proponent of real beauty, the models featured in the videos are women from the NARS Marketing department.

Achieve These Looks:
3.1 phillip lim:
1. Highlight and Blend – Luxor Multiple, Riviera Multiple
2. Set The Eyes – Nymphea Single Eyeshadow
3. Define The Eyes – London Eyeliner Pencil, Larger Than Life Volumizing Mascara

Marc Jacobs:
1. Satin Complexion – Sheer Glow Foundation
2. Define Eye – Tokyo Duo Eyeshadow, Aigle Noir Soft Touch Shadow Pencil, Larger Than Life Lengthening Mascara
3. Coral Lip – Barbarella Lipstick

Thakoon:
1. Illuminate – Orgasm Illuminator
2. Contoured Cheeks – Lovejoy Blush
3. Subtle Smokey Eye and Nude Lip – Bali Single Eyeshadow, Cruising Lipstick

Michelle O!

The Transatlantic Trendsetter

Michelle Obama is unlike any First Lady that the world has ever seen. Highly educated, tall, and beautiful, Michelle proves once again that she is just an ordinary woman doing extraordinary things.

Just over a year ago, First Lady Michelle was more so recognized for being a soccer mom than a high-style fashion icon. Family and the pursuit of the White House were far more important than a pair of Jimmy Choo’s. Fast forward a year later and she is still the same Michelle Obama but with far more grace, world adirmation, and fashion.

Yesterday Mrs. Obama joined the President as he journeyed to England.

However; jet setting isn’t be the only thing on Mrs. Obama’s agenda. Today, she and President Obama met with the Queen of England for tea, and the First Lady along with Sarah Brown (wife of the British Prime Minister) visited a cancer center in London. She (Mrs. Obama) is a woman who wears many hats and just happens to look great while doing so.

I heart Michelle Obama! She’s smart, powerful, very educated and her own individual. She can put on a garment priced at $70 and wear the heck out of it; she shops at J.Crew for Christ’s sake! How many First Ladies of the past would have done that? I also love the fact that she’s not trying to be like anyone else – she’s her own woman. When she’s not in J.Crew, you can catch the First Lady in designs by Jason Wu or Thakoon. Just hours after she was seen wearing a cardigan and pencil skirt by J.Crew it was sold out. Talk about having a high influence on people. It’s no wonder her approval rating has soared.