Ask Ariane Get The Look - Angelina Jolie
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This month we look at Angelina Jolie.

Step 1 - FACE Angelina has gone through a real metamorphosis in the past few years. She has transformed her "Bad Girl" image to that of a caring mother of two and honoured humanitarian. Her look too has been refined to become more polished and elegant. Understated and beautiful to reveal a truly glamorous 'Star'. This is award winning evening look is so right for Autumn / Winter 2005. Here's how you can recreate with minimum effort.

Start with a radiant complexion. Prime skin with Laura Mercier Foundation Primer or Clarins Beauty Flash Balm. Primers help keep make-up looking fresh longer.
Now even out your imperfections - Apply a light weight foundation such as Origins Nude & Improved Bare Face Make-up, Bare Escuentuals Mineral Foundation or Stila Illuminating Liquid Foundation.

Next apply concealer only to those areas that need it. Using concealer after foundation means you use less and target exactly the places that ned it most. Keep the t-zone mat with either powder or a mattifing product. Or, try anti shine papers - Clinique Stay Matte Oil-Blotting Sheets or Chanel Blotting Papers.

Step 2 - EYES Perfectly groomed brows are a must. Shape and define yours using either Chanel Perfect Brows, Anastasia Brow Ex-Press or Ariane Poole London Brow Kit. If they only need to be tamed try Origins Just Browsing (available in 4 shades).

The eyes are stunning yet easy to achieve, using a mix of soft shimmers and charcoal/brown/black. The key to this look is BLENDING. Sweep a pale ivory shadow from lash to brow. Good ones to try Bobbi Brown Bone, Lorac Beige Eye Shadow or Laura Mercier Butter Cream. Now add a taupeish neutral color such as Stila Wheat, Bobbi Brown Fawn or Nars Bali all over the lids. Next emphasise the outer corners with a charcoal/brown/black shadow. Ones to check out - Bobbi Brown Smoke, Smashbox Smashing Smoke or Lancome Color Design Couture. Place the shadow on the outer corners & along base of lower lashes. With a bit more emphasis on the outer corners. Extend this deep shade to slightly beyond the corners to get that sultry doe-like look. Define the shape with either a black pencil or gel eyeliner applied to the base of the top lashes and 1/2 way along the base of the lower lashes. Great Pencils & Gel Liners - Ariane Poole London Powder Pencil Ebony or Origins Eye Pencil Smoke, Bobbi Brown Longwear Gel Eyeliner Black Ink, Stila Smudge Pots Black or Smashbox Cream Liner Caviar. Next add drama with a black kohl pencil applied all around the inner rim of the eyes. If you feel your eyes are small, but you want to wear this look skip the black kohl. Or use a white kohl pencil inside the eyes. This will instantly make them look bigger. Try Lancome Black Kohl Pencil, Benefit Bad Gal or Helena Rubinstein White Kohl Pencil. Finish with a generous amount of black mascara. To create that Faux Lash look try Dior Show Mascara or Bourjois Coup de Theatre False Lash Illusion - Duo Mascara. Then curl your lashes to really open them up with Ariane Poole London Heated Lash Curlers. Eye Shadow Palettes to try - Urban Decay Asphalt Treesome, Ariane Poole London Timeless Palette or DVF Perfect Eye Compact Winter Palace.

Step 3 - CHEEKS Cheeks are subtly sculpted with colour. Apply a nude tone blush such as Clinique Bashfull Blush or Prescriptives Creamy Cheekcolor Peekaboo just under the cheek bones and sweep outwards.

Highlight under the eyes and along the tops of the cheek bones with a matte face brightener such as Ariane Poole London Under Eye & Face Brightener.

Step 4 - LIPS Lips are understated using a nude shade of gloss or balm. Try Origins Cocoa Therapy Mood Boosting Lip Balm Chocolate Latte, Bobbi Brown Lip Gloss Beige or Estee Lauder Glacial Beige. If your lips aren't as full as Angelina's and you would like them to look a little more lushes try a "lip pumping product" like Too Faced Lip Injection or DuWop Venom Gloss Hyacinth. Next define the shape using a lip pencil in a nude (lip)colour. Now apply lip colour.

Step 5 - SHIMMER And finally to complete this fabulous look, a glistening body. Skin that's on show should be silky smooth and radiant. So exfoliate first with Clarins Exfoliating Body Scrub, Origin's Salt Rub or a body brush. Then add a sheen with Scott Barnes Body Bling.