Tuesday night, actress Zoë Saldana was at the L.A. premiere of her new movie, Star Trek Into Darkness. Her bright lips and shimmery gold eyes were a riff on classic red lips (one of Saldana's favorite looks) that felt appropriate for the coming summer season. Since I'll definitely be trying this out one of these weekends, I got Saldana's makeup artist for the night, Vera Steimberg, on the phone to find out just how she pulled it off.
"We tried a bunch of red lipsticks, but this one had more blue undertones that I really liked on her," said Steimberg, who applied Laura Mercier Crème Smooth Lip Colour in Hollywood straight from the tube onto Saldana's lips. "To make sure, though, I had her put the dress on. Once she did, we knew it was right—everyone in the room loved how it looked."
On her eyes, Steimberg decided to play off Saldana's neutral dress with a burnished gold cream color. She blended Laura Mercier Metallic Crème Eye Colours in Gold and Burnished Copper on her lids. (It's this pairing of gold shadow and red lips that I think totally summer-izes the lips.) She then lined Saldana's inner rims with brown pencil and added dark brown powder shadow just on the outer corners to "add a little contour and depth to her eyes." Skipping the hassle of false lashes, Steimberg added a heavy dose of Laura Mercier Faux Lash Mascara in Black (one of my own favorite dramatic formulas). To finish the look, she added a warm, pink-y nude cream blush to give the actress's cheeks a touch of natural-looking flush without competing with the eyes or lips.
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