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Audi Fashion Festival 2012: Beauty Backstage at Zac Posen 600
A quintessential red lip can add instant glamour to your look, and never goes out of fashion. For the Zac Posen Fall 2012 show, a glossy cherry-red lip was paired with refined eyes to portray a reinvented classic look.

Audi Fashion Festival 2012: Beauty Backstage at Zac Posen 600
Senior Artist of the M.A.C PRO Team, Beno Lim, explains the makeup look for the Zac Posen show where, “The traditional Geisha of Japan is re-envisioned as a sleek couture confection.”

To channel oriental precision, Beno says the trick is to focus on the eyes. “Refined, original and intriguing, the new updated liner is all about a trick of the eye that is very artistic. It’s about taking a classic gesture but reworking it into something non-conformist”, says Beno.

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We love this elegant, timeless classic done in a modern way. This look is the epitome of a stylish modern woman and here’s how you can recreate it.

Audi Fashion Festival 2012: Beauty Backstage at Zac Posen M.A.C

For the eyes, first use M.A.C’s Paint Pot in Bare Study as a base by applying on the entire eyelid. Then, trace the upper and lower eye line with M.A.C’s Powerpoint Eyeliner in Engraved. To soften the eyes, blend and extend the eyeliner out with M.A.C’s 266 Small Angle Brush.

Next apply M.A.C’s Eye Shadow in Dazzlelight on the double eyelid and M.A.C’s Eye Shadow in Expensive Pink on the creases of the eyes. Using M.A.C’s 218 Blending Brush, extend the eyeshadow colours outwards.

To complete, brush on two coats of M.A.C’s Haute and Naughty Lash Mascara on the lashes to anchor the look.

For the lips, begin by lining them with M.A.C’s Lip Pencil in Cherry. To achieve the intense red lip colour with a creamy finish for Zac Posen, Beno mixed M.A.C Lipstick in Russian Red with M.A.C PRO Red Lipmix.

M.A.C PRO products aren’t available in Singapore but an alternative would be to substitute M.A.C’s PRO Red Lipmix with M.A.C Cremesheen Lipstick in Brave Red to get a similar effect.

Finish the look by painting M.A.C Clear Lipglass over to give the lips a “lacquered” effect.

Photos by Wesley Kow.

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