Fall Beauty trends 2011

Fall is my favorite season. I love bundling up, slipping on my favorite fuzzy slippers, and curling up in bed drinking hot tea on a blistery evening. And of course the beautiful foliage, and getting out my favorite booties is a plus.

Anyways, I was flipping through my favorite magazines, and picked up on some of the beauty trends that will be hot this fall. So we can look both glamourous and trendy during this cold and beautiful season.

The "au naturale" look

Forget the smokey eyes, the fake eyelashes, and the bold red lips. This season is all about looking naturally beautiful, effortless, and looking like yourself while not covering up your face with makeup. Heres one way you can get the natural look.

step one: apply base makeup as you normally would. Personally I would just dab on some concealor and set with powder, but if you want the whole foundation/tinted moisturizer ordeal, you can do that too.

step two: apply highlighter on your cheekbones. May I reccomend benefits highbeam? It gives a really pretty natural glow to the face, making your features stand out more and giving your skin that boost. You can dab some on your eyelids for a bit of a pretty sheen on the eyes that looks extremley natural. Just make sure you dont get it in your eyes, haha

Step three: Countour the cheekbones.

Blush can give you that "dolled up" appearance. Instead, go for the natural approach by just applying a matte bronzer to the hollows of your cheeks. It'll give you those model-like cheekbones and give you a nice healthy glow. I like hoola bronzer by benefit.

Step four: curl eyelashes and apply mascara. if you want to make your eyelashes look thicker, tightline the top waterline with black/brown eyeliner for a really natural look. You can tightline the lower waterline with a peachy eyeliner for brighter eyes, and also to prevent the top black eyeliner from smudging onto the bottom lowerline. I hear stilas kajal eyeliner in topaz is a good eyeliner for that.

Step four: for lips, apply lipbalm to keep lips moisturized. You can then either apply a nude or rosy lipstick/gloss/liptint. Or you can skip the lip-products and just keep your lips bare! its your choice. (:

Spider lashes

A really big trend this year is the spider-lashes. How to get them? You can simply just apply false lashes to both bottom and top lashlines, or you can use your mascara to get this cool effect. Comb through your lashes with the mascara wand like usual, then go over the tips to get that extra long and spider like effect. The candal Queen mascara by Fairydrops is a good mascara to achieve this look, or if you want a cheaper alternative I would reccomend the maybelline falsies.

Bold Brows.

Bold eyebrows. Need I say more? Bold brows have been all over the runway, and many celebrities have been sporting this look as well. It may look a little bit funny to you at first trying it out for the first time, it takes some getting used to (at least it did for me), but it really frames the eyes nicely and gives you a cool look.

Dark lips

Whats fall without the burgundy, dark red lips? (or even black if your daring)
Great for parties, special events, or for making a statement, fall is the season to whip out the dark lipstick. I personally like the more natural approach to dark lipsticks by using them as a stain to give that flushed look. One lipstick I would recomend is revlons lipstick in black cherry.

- Momo