Update: Nina Dobrev's makeup

So, on my last post about Elena Dobrev's makeup, I said that she seems to only be wearing mascara and eyeliner. However, she actually does wear eyeshadow and blush.

Isnt she gorgeous? (: 

The Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) makeup tutorial

1. Base Makeup:  Apply primer, and a foundation that matches your skin perfectly. Set with a translucent powder. You want your skin to look flawless, but natural. Elena doesnt sport the "cake face" look. I reccomend the Neutrogena healthy skin liquid makeup..... its medium coverage, natural looking foundation. 

2. Eyes: Prime eyes with a eyelid primer to make your eyeshadows appear more vibrant (like Urban Decay primer potion). Take a matte skin colored eyeshadow and apply on your lids. (like naked from the Urban Decay Naked Palette, or a face powder in your skin color). Then take a medium brown color (like Buck from the Urban Decay Naked Palette) and apply naturally into the crease. You don't want to make the crease color look obvious, but apply very softly and make sure to blend.

Smudge a brown eyeliner on the upper lash line and on the outer part of the lower lash line. Revlon colorstay eyeliner is pretty good.

Curl eyelashes and apply a lengthening mascara. (Nina has said her favorite mascara is Covergirl Lashblast) You can apply individual lashes if you want the full lash look Nina has (by the way, those are her real eyelashes.. im jealous... )

3. Blush
You want to choose a very natural, matte blush color. If you have pale skin, choose soft and light pink colors. If you have medium skin, choose rosy toned blushes. Dark skin looks good with deeper plum toned blush colors. I love this maybelline cream blush in soft plum.

4. Finish off the look with a rosy lipcolor. You want to dab this one on, and blend out with your finger. I love Revlons colorburst lipstick in rosy nude. Its not really a nude color, its like a rose-pink color.

- momo