thank you for smoking...

This is my 2nd post for the day. Just wanted to share this
with you gals.


I love the easy elegance that Bobbi Brown Beauty
Team Artist Sébastien Tardif showed last month at the launch
of Bobbi's fifth and latest literary installment, Makeup Manual.
Minimalist and feminine chic, with a hint of a decidedly
'90s aesthetic, was the look of the day.

After prepping with a base to even out skin tones,
brows were softly defined before moving on to the main
contender, the model's sultry,
ultra-sexy peepers. In quite the novel approach,
Sébastien carefullydabbed black gel liner onto the lids with a
stubby eyeshadow brush—the whole process taking surgical
precision, with the edges deliberately not going over the eye crease
to keep it pared-down–and in what seemed like the Best Idea Ever,
topped it off with bright cobalt blue shadow from the
Bobbi Brights Palette. The result was a dark and
multi-dimensional,
yet clean and updated, take on the smoky eye, which is on-trend
with this season's painterly and futuristic flavor.

To balance out the moody eyes, the cheeks and lips were kept in
the nude-slash-warm peach territory with a powder blush and soft,
petal-colored lipstick, with finishing touches like two coats of black mascara
and black eyeliner polishing it all up. The hair, in homage to the
great grunge-glam generation, was effortlessly simple: we
welcomed back the side-swept ponytail with open arms,
as it keeps us all face forward and ready to shine for the rest of S/S '09.

Click on for tips on copping our Look We Love: Modern Smoky Eyes.

Click here to see Style Bible's guide to summer.