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Beauty Dare: NYFW Runway to Reality

Can we rip off a high-fashion runway look? Yes. We. Can.
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Dippin' Dots
Step 5: Dip the angled brush in the wet powder and line the inner corner of your eye. Dip the handle-end of the brush into the powder and use it to make a dot right next to your tear duct. Dip into the powder mixture again and create another dot near the outer edge of your eyebrow. Using a larger brush (with a bigger handle end), dip the end in the powder mixture and create a circle above the middle of your eyebrow. Touch up any mistakes with concealer.

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Raise Some Brows
Step 6: Use a brow gel, like Sharon Lee Eyebrow Gel, $70, to fill in brows and get the essence of the look from the runway show. Then use a fan brush to apply bronzer underneath your cheekbones. Sweep a rose blush, like Glo Minerals gloBlush in Rosebud, $26, along your cheekbones underneath the shape you made. Dab a pink lipstick onto your lips for a light wash of color. Add one coat of mascara to define lashes.

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Keep it Together
Step 7: Repeat steps 2-6 on your other eye. Use a setting spray, like Urban Decay All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray, $29, to set the makeup.

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Grown-Up Glitter
Everyone in the office let out a collective oooh when they saw the sparkly eye makeup and super-big, bird's nest hair from the Jenny Packham runway show. The complete look is a bit too avant-garde for, say, a day at the office or a Starbucks run (and our hair would never recover from that much teasing), so we challenged ourselves to create a wearable (but not watered-down) version of this high-fashion beauty look.

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The Hair
Emily's hair is naturally straight with some slight texture. To make this style more wearable than the runway look, we used her subtle texture to our advantage, teasing only around the ends and sides of her hair. Here's how we did it:

1. Mist all of your hair with a heat protectant spray, like Herbal Essences Heat Protection Spray, $5.99

2. Using a 1-inch barrel curling iron, begin curling sections of your hair starting from the back. Be sure each section is only about one to two inches wide as you go.

3. As you curl each section, pin each piece in place at your roots. Mist each curl with hairspray to hold.

4. Continue curling and pinning the rest of your hair. Spritz entire head with hairspray and let the curls set for 15-20 minutes.

5. Unpin your curls and tug them apart to loosen them. Use a fine-toothed comb to tease at your nape and sides of your hair for added volume.

6. Create a side part then clip your hair off to the side using a flower accessory. Finish with hairspray.

BY TIFFANIE PETETT, ALLIE FLINN | SEP 13, 2013 | SHARES
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