This look has been described by the make-up artist who designed it ,Charlotte Tilbury as 'The Polished Rock Chic' that was inspired by The Pretenders front woman Chrissie Hynde.
For this look Tilbury prepared the skin with a Tom Ford moisturiser and then concealed any imperfections. For this look the skin needed to be flawless while looking as natural as possible. Therefore if I were to re-create this look I would use derma colour to conceal any imperfections first and then apply Mac's face and body foundation over the top of this. Another option would be to use a full coverage foundation that has a full coverage, similar to Mac's Studio Sculpt foundation or Illamasqua skin base.
For the eyes a 'moody gun-metal eye-shadow' was applied to the lid and the blended up toward the brow bone and into the socket line. To re-create this I would use Urban Decay's eyeshadow in to add definition Tilbury applied the graphic black eye pencil from Mac along the lash line and waterline and then blended this into the eye-shadow. As I don't have this product in my kit I would substitute it for Rimmel's Scandaleyes eye pencil as this is a creamy product that would blend nicely but is waterproof so will stay in place. Form my reference photo it looks as if a bit of the eyeshadow has been applied to the lower lash line so I would be sure to do that. It also looks as if a matte buff coloured eye-shadow has been applied to the brow bone to achive this I would use Urban decay's eye-shadow in W.O.S. Tilbury states on her blog 'You can never have too much mascara with this Rock Chick look – so apply lashings to the top and bottom lashes for instant full fat lashes'. For this I would apply a minimum of 4 coats of mascara to the lashes and use a volumising rather than lenghthening mascara such as the Loreal millionise mascara. The brows look to have been kept fairly natural so I would simply brush through them with clear brow gel or only fill in sparse areas using a pencil in small feathery strokes.
Due to the strong eye look the lip was kept nude. The lipstick that was used for the look was Tom Ford's 'Vanilla Suede' which is a sheer nude with a frost finish. I don't own this lipstick so I would use Mac's 'plink' which has a pinker tone than the 'Vanilla Suede' but I feel that It would still work.
To highlight Tilbury used the same lipstick that had been applied to the lips on the cheekbones. I wouldn't use my subtitued lipstick for this as I feel it would be too pink to highlight so therefore I would either use Benefit's 'watt's up' highlighter or Revlon's 'photoready lights' illuminator.
The hair for this look is fairly natural with a very slight wave and a slightly messy appearance. To achieve this I would keep my models hair natural. However if my model had very straight hair I would wrap large sections around a curling wand very loosely then brush it through so the wave is very subtle. If the model had very curly hair I would first straighten the hair then repeat the process. I would also backcomb the hair slightly and add some dry shampoo then mess it with fingers to give it the slightly deceived look that is presented on the models photographed.
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