It happens to the best of us: you find yourself reaching for the same dirty tube of lipgloss and stub of black eyeliner. Your teeth have been through three lattes too many. Your eyebrows look like caterpillars. You, in short, could use some inspiration from Kandee Johnson.
Who's Kandee? She's a Hollywood makeup artist who's responsible for keeping everyone from Playboy bunnies to movie stars looking enviably dewy. She can create cheekbones where there are none, erase undereye circles, and inflate lips with little more than lipliner and a dab of gloss. And if you don't exactly have the cash to keep a makeup artist at your beck and call, her expertise is available in the form of wildly popular YouTube video tutorials on how, once and for all, to banish that double chin with a few strokes of a brush. (Not that you have one, of course.) Now, if that's not magic, we don't know what is.
But with costume season upon us, you might be looking to make that Audrey Hepburn costume a little more convincing or figure out how Tinkerbell might best paint her face. (Just because the next ho down the block bleaches her hair and has a store of pixie dust doesn't make her Tinkerbell, you know.) We all need help with Halloween sometimes. You're not going to just suddenly transform into a sultry, flame-haired Jessica Rabbit with just any trampy dress and a cheap red wig. There's a little more art in it than that.
Which is why Kandee has come up with a series of tutorials (and she's taking suggestions) on how to transform yourself into an uncanny doppelganger of whoever you may want to be. At least for a night. You may love that fierce Cleopatra eyeshadow, but just remember not to OD on it post-October.
Here's her Geisha-inspired look:
A dramatic, Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra look:
An even-better-than-the-original Poison Ivy:
An eerily accurate and surreal Queen of Hearts, Tim Burton style:
If you love the '80s, an uber-colorful Cyndi Lauper might do the trick:
