This Halloween, put on your best "Poker Face," with our guide looking as glamorous as Lady Gaga. MAC senior artist Romero Jennings takes us through the steps to create the look. Fourteen easy steps, and you'll be ready for the "Paparazzi!"
- By Laura Kenney
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This look features a white card over one eye, and half-brows over the other, so the first step is to make the brows disappear.
First paint each brow with MAC Duo Lash Glue, and then dust your pressed powder or powder foundation on top. The powder will stick to the glue and help your brows match your skin tone.
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Use a white eye pencil to stencil the shape for the eye card and lips before applying the rest of your makeup.
"Lady Gaga's lips are stylized, said Jennings. "The shape is very Lucielle Balll meets Judy Jetson – old school but high tech at same time.
To get the look, draw short, cartoonish lips that don't extend all the way to your lips' natural corners - a rounded heart shape on top, and a rounded half circle on bottom lips.
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Fill in the lips with Use MAC Lips Pencil in Red to draw a Blank out the rest of the lips with foundation.
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Then fill in the stenciled white lines with MAC Pure White Chromocake, painting the color on the eye lids and lashes, and dusting everything with Prep and Prime Loose Powder on top. "The thing that will make this stay put is the powder," says Jennings. "That just seals everything."
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"I'm edging this with Cork Eye Shadow, so the white really stands out," said Jennings. Then, he use MAC Sculpting Powder to contour around the white edges to create dimension.
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Define half of the brow, using MAC Sculpting Powder to contour from the inner crease and arching up and over. Then, to visually erase the rest of your brow, Jennings has a cool tip: "When you want to visually erase something for the camera, use a shiny shadow on the area. Then when you take a picture using flash, all you see is the shine." He used this trick on the outer half of the brow, layering the area with Eye Shadow in Nylon, a shimmery, buttery white.
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"Lady Gage is known for her 'sad' makeup," said Jennings. "The shapes always go downwards." He used Black Track Fluid Line Gel Liner on the lid (technically, it's a liner but works great as shadow base for smoking up the eye), and smudged out the color to create a triangular shape and lined under the eyes with it.
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Using MAC Brush in 208, Jennings lined beneath the bottom lid with Black Track Fluid Line Gel Liner, and worked the upper lid with Fluffier Brush 224 to create well blended, airbrushed look. He brightened the inner corners of the eye with MAC White Pigment, a super shimmery powder that will give a wet look when photographed.
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Jennings opted for MAC Lashes #44. "They're new lashes that are very long and fluttery," he said. "And for extra impact I'm going to layer a few pairs together before we put them on."
It's not as complicated as it sounds: Jennings simply dabbed a tiny bit of lash glue on the bottom of each lash strip, and tripled up the lashes to tripled them up before applying them.
Jennings the used MAC Lashes in #35 on the bottom. "The have spaces between the lashes for a clumpy, Twiggy-like effect," he says. Another tip: Always use mascara on top of the false lashes. "It fuses your lashes to the fake ones," says Jennings.
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