My daughter steals all my makeup brushes, all my makeup sponges
and, these days, all my makeup, but at least she has good taste.
Hi Vogue! I'm Karen Elson
and watch me as I do my go-to copper eyeshadow look.
Being a blazing redhead copper always looks really striking.
It's what I wore for the last Met Ball I went to.
I had a beautiful copper look.
I'm going to start by putting on an eye mask.
I hope I'm putting these on the right way.
For a little extra boost,
I'm going to use this vibrating face roller.
It gets the product to absorb better into your skin
and gives you a little extra, sort of, zing.
Alrighty.
Definitely got to use a quality face cream.
I like to add face oil.
The queen of mixing things.
And back to using this again.
I am obsessed with this thing.
Now I'm going to use some foundation under my eyes first.
Now I'm using my trusted sponge.
Just makes it all go on better.
So, I'm going to start off first with lining my lid
just very gently with a copper liner.
And it's going to look messy at first. That's the thing.
Then...
rub it in with your fingers.
Pat McGrath taught me.
She always applies makeup with her hands
and it just feels like a really lovely way to do makeup.
It's like your face is your palette.
Now I've got every shade of copper known to man.
This is the first colour I'm going to use.
Sort of a terracotta.
Bringing out the trusted blending brush.
I'm obsessed with this thing.
It just helps kind of soften everything.
Next, another layer of copper.
Now it's a bit more of a deeper shade, a bit more sparkly.
Oh, I love this so much.
Blending brush.
When you're doing makeup like this, you're going to make mistakes.
You're going to have makeup everywhere.
I am just, you know, a believer of just always having a sponge
or a blending brush and just kind of, you know, get some foundation
and cover up your mistakes as you go along the way.
Now I'm going to use a darker shade.
It's almost like a copper red.
It probably looks like I have two big,
sort of half moons around my eyes.
The first thing that I'm trying to do
is just establish the colour
and now I'm going to use my sponge again just to
really, kind of, settle it in there.
And then I'll go back in for final touches on my eyes later on.
Alrighty, here we go.
I don't have many eyebrows.
I'd have to sort of use, like, a gel.
And I'm going to use my eyebrow pencil.
The idea is just to kind of create a nice arch.
It's like playing dot to dot
where you just connect the dots and fill in underneath.
They start here and there and then at the end.
And then brush it all in so it doesn't look too fake.
Even if it's a big makeup, it’s still got to look lived in.
Next up, I'm going to line my eyes with,
sort of, a coppery red.
Make it pop.
And I love to really get in there and almost like
my favourite makeup is
makeup that you sleep in.
A makeup look that is really done
but it almost looks like you took a nap on it.
Like, somehow it always looks better.
I'm using this brush because I'm just going to
get a bunch of copper shades, mix them all together
and just really, really work it into my eyes right now.
I'm going to use this amazing opal.
Look how lovely that is.
At the top.
I love this.
And get a smaller brush. Get it on the inside.
So, I've been a model for a really long time
and I've had every kind of makeup look,
but there was one time backstage at a show
where a makeup artist had given me this magnificent glittery eye look.
The makeup artist said: "Don't move. We have to take the glitter off
because we're using industrial carpet glitter."
[laughs]
Which was glass.
I mean, the look was beautiful, don't get me wrong.
It was a really nice look, but...
And, speaking of, I'm adding some
not glass glitter, but actual lovely glitter to my face.
The safe kind to my eyes.
All right. Now, we're going to move on to eyelash curling.
I never let a makeup artist curl my lashes any more
because I've had my lashes chopped off by these things
more times than I can count.
So I always have to check and make sure that my eyelashes aren't...
[laughs]
And this look definitely needs a lot of mascara.
There's no such thing as too much.
And I do top and bottom.
I'm going to use this stuff.
It's a bronzer,
but you can use it all over your face.
So, the next thing I'm going to do
is add a little, like, shade just onto my cheeks.
Give it a little contour. Blending brush.
So you don't have that, sort of,
line of shade.
And, with the other side of the brush,
I'm going to use the highlighter.
So, the next thing I'm going to do is my lip colour
and, for that, especially for this look,
I'm going to blend a lot of different lipsticks.
Hold on. How many lipsticks do I have here?
Kind of orangey-red here.
This one, which is very, very orange.
This, which is more, kind of, blue-red.
I like to find my own custom blend
and it gets such a perfect shade.
I apply it over and over again,
like, the constant sort of pressing in of the colour.
Just, again, how it feels, like, lived in
and not too much like makeup.
I think the next thing I'm going to do
is add more highlighter to my Cupid's bow
and this lovely
opal shade again just to get inside,
here.
It's so lovely.
Now I have to set it with powder, wherever my powder may be.
And I never like to use too much powder
because it makes your face look cakey,
but a little for this look definitely helps.
So, this is my lovely, warm, coppery, festive signature look.
I love it. I love it so much.
Hi Vogue! I'm Karen Elson.
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