Hair Dos: Retro Waves are All the Rage
For all of you vintage Hollywood glamour junkies like myself, I ask…who on earth wouldn’t want to look like the stunning Veronica Lake?!
Her skin! Her eyes! Her fabulous hair! Kate Bosworth recently took inspiration from the glamorous Lake, and copied this look for the Costume Institute Gala. Bosworth doesn’t need much to look beautiful, her different colored eyes are captivating, and she already had great hair for this style. Also take note of the red lips!
To achieve this style, there are a few steps in the actual styling process. First you must start with a good blow dry, apply a good styling creme. I’m going to highly recommend the Jonathan Silky Dirt Shine & Define Creme $16
This stuff is awesome because it can be used on damp or dry hair, and it can be used as a grooming creme and a shine treatment. This will be all you need for the styling process! The convenience is unbeatable, how annoying and un-ecofriendly is it to have to buy and use multiple hair products for one type of style? Plus, this Jonathan Product is 100 percent vegan, and contains no animal, wheat-gluten or gluten-derived ingredients. After you’ve applied this and blow dried smooth with a round brush, take small pieces of the hair and curl with a curling iron, then pin up with bobby pins. After letting set for about ten minutes, remove bobby pins and brush out curls gently. After you’ve done this, apply a bit more of the shine creme to your hair with the your fingertips. This hairstyle is meant to have a severe side part like Lake’s and Bosworth’s, plus side parts make the nose look more delicate.
Once you’ve achieved the hair, the rest is easy. Bosworth looks as though she has naturally long lashes, but if you weren’t born with such a gift, it doesn’t hurt to fake it once in a while. Going with some cheap fake eyelashes is fine, you’re not going to keep them forever right? If you go with falsies that have a finer texture, they are going to look more real. These MAC 21 Lashes are only $12, and you could probably wear them again since they are decent quality.
MAC 21 Lash: $12
And here’s a tip: fake eyelashes always go on better and look better if applied over a thin black eyeline done with some liquid eyeliner.
Now for the lips, I’ve already suggested one of my favorites which would be MAC’s Ruby Woo–the truest of true ruby red’s. But I am curious to see how the Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupte is, $34 sephora.com. The smooth and creamy lipstick not only comes in this fabulous gold tube (very old Hollywood glam), but it is chock full of pigmented color and has an SPF of 15. Perfect! Try the Red Muse shade.
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