RIHANNA MAKEUP TUTORIAL
RIHANNA MAKEUP TUTORIAL
If you’ve ever seen the funky, fabulous makeup of music artist Rihanna, you may have wanted to achieve such a look yourself. Doing so will take a little bit of precision on your part, but once you learn how to control your eyeliner, you can do almost any of her looks.
The look discussed in this tutorial features blue and black eyeliner and bright, light purple lipstick. The brands and colors given are just for reference and you do not actually need said products to achieve this look. And so, you will need: Black liquid eyeliner, blue liquid eyeliner (with sparkles, optionally), and lipstick in a shade similar to MAC’s “Up the Amp”, black eyeshadow or black pencil eyeliner, a bronzer or brown powder, blush that is very close to your natural skin tone, a natural colored lip pencil, black mascara, and a highlight color.
Eyes: First of all, take your black eyeshadow or pencil liner and line both your top and bottom waterline. This may take a bit of practice. As a note, eyeshadow may feel a bit more comfortable on the waterline. Next, take your blue eyeliner and make a thick line on the top lid. Make this line about 1/8th of an inch thick and wing it out at an 45 degree angle. Take the liner from the end of the wing back into your eyeliner. It shouldn’t be huge. Then take the eyeliner and fill this in. Underneath, make a line along the lashes. About 1/4th of the way away from your inner corner of your eye, start making it thicker. Wing this out also, parallel to the first wing. Connect the two and fill in the black (check for pictures online if this doesn’t make any sense.). Take blue eyeliner and line the inner corner of your eyes, around into the bottom, but no further.
Lips: Line your lips with skin tone pencil. Overline a little bit in the corners of your mouth, and in a U-Shape a little bit into the Cupid’s bow. Then apply your lipstick as usual, including the overlined bits.
Contouring: Take your bronzer. Suck in your cheeks and apply where the shadows are created lightly. Blend this very well. Then take your blush and apply it along the sides of your cheekbones. Bring it down in the front until it touches where your bronzer began. Make sure to blend this VERY WELL and then apply your face powder very lightly over this.
This is a more advanced look and will take a bit of maneuvering. Using a picture will help to recreate this look.