Saturday 29 March 2014

TUTORIAL; BABY DOLL!

The baby doll style stemmed from the 60's and was worn by celebrities such as Edie Sedgwick and Twiggy. The style was thick black liner, cut crease, false bottom lash line, false lashes and nude or narrowed lips.

 

1. Start with a perfect base; moisturiser, primer then powder on top all over the face.
 

2. Now buff in a pale foundation over the powder. I mixed my normal foundation with a white greasepaint to make it paler, then added concealer over any red patches or spots. Add powder onto the T-zone to stop oily skin.
 
 

3. Apply a pale eyeshadow over the whole eye.
 
 


4. Then add a brown liner in an arc shape through my crease. Buff it in to my crease in a window wiper motion following the shape of the liner, you get a better shape if you do this with your eye open. It is better if you repeat this a few times to the true colour of the liner, this will create the illusion of a deeper crease and a bigger eye.
 
 

5. To warm up the brown add an orange colour along the crease with an angled brush to get a line and blend the same way as before. 

 

 6. Leave a space under the lash line and repeat the last two steps underneath.

 

7. Fill the space between the lash line and the new arc with a white eyeliner, then apply it along the waterline.

 

8. Add white highlight into the inner corner and the brow bone.



9. Apply gel or liquid liner along the upper lash line quite thickly.

 

10. Now apply the liner from the last step along the lower arc under the white eyeliner, this will make your eye look bigger and brighter.

 

11. Curl your lashes and apply mascara only on the top lashes. Be extra careful not to get any on the bottom lashes as it will ruin the effect of an open eye.

 

12. Apply pink blush onto the very apples of your cheeks (smiling can help with this) in a small circular motion, repeat until you reach the desired brightness. Then make freckles across the cheeks and the nose using a brown eye shadow, light brown eyeliner or a blonde eyebrow pencil. If a freckle is too dark bounce your finger on top a few times to take off the edge.

 

13. Use the eyeliner to draw in small lashes along the false bottom lash line.

 

14.Block out the lips using concealer, then line a narrow outline covering only two thirds of your lips (leave out the outer corners) with a nude lip liner and cover in a baby pink gloss.

 

15. Finally, touch up the white/pale shadow on the eyelid, give yourself a 'dolly like' hairstyle and that's the look complete.


When you try, you could put on some false lashes or maybe try just a normal nude lip. Next time I would add some false lashes to both the top and the bottom and make the blush a little stronger. For a total look I'd wear knee high socks and small shoes with a 90's spaghetti strap dress.