Secrets of red-carpet glamour

LAST week’s television awards were outstanding in the category of make-up. Stephanie Smith finds out how to get the look.
By The Newsroom
Published 1st Jun 2011, 12:59 BST

Her look was created especially for her by Illamasqua head of professional make-up, the unusually-named Spob, who prepped her skin first with a matt primer (£19.50) and then used the new Illamasqua foundation Skinbase (launches end of June, £25).

Spob filled Vicky’s brows in with a Illamasqua Brow Cake in Thunder using an angled eye brush for extra definition.

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The base of Vicky’s smoky eyes were set with a cream pigment called Emerge, £17, a peachy shade mixed with another cream pigment in Mould (a deep purple shade). Spob sealed the eye base with a colourless translucent powder, to ensure the look lasted for the entire night. To finish and frame the smoky eye, Spob used a powder eye shadow in Leslat, a pure matt black shade, and finished with a slick black eyeliner and some false lashes.

Bronzer in Writhe, £20, was used to warm up her complexion naturally where the sun would hit and her body was prepped with Illamasqua Illumine Oil in Pulse, finished with a dusting of a shimmer bronze powdered metal on her shoulders.

Illamasqua products are available at www.illamasqua.com, tel: 0844 9841700.