Color Stories: Beauty Expert Nadine Jolie Shows Her Love For Midnight Rush
Nadine Jolie is a former beauty editor and author of Confessions of a Beauty Addict and the popular guide Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You’ll-Actually-Use Guide to Looking Your Best . She is a contributor to the Vanity Fair beauty blog, teaches social media classes at LA’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and blogs daily at NadineJolie.com. She has received international press coverage from Live! With Regis and Kelly, Time, WWD, The Guardian, Figaro Japan, Glamour Italia and The New York Times, as well as inspiring the New York Post to dub her “the poster child for the blogger generation.”
I’m low-maintenance when it comes to beauty…except for my eye makeup! I’m an absolute sucker for a smokey look: the more fun and whimsical, the better. Recently, there’s one shade I’ve been gravitating toward over and over to help punch up my eye makeup while still looking polished and clean: blue. (Yes, blue!)
Blue sometimes gets a bad rap as an over-the-top 80’s shade straight from a Robert Palmer music video, but blue has grown-up, and I’m here to tell you that it’s 100 percent possible to create a gorgeous, sexy, current look using blues. (Psst: it’s all about blending and keeping the rest of the face neutral! Blue eyeshadow plus red lipstick is one clamp of the crimping iron away from full-on metal groupie, which is only cool on Halloween.) The palette that I can’t get enough of right now is Lancôme Color Design 5-Pan Palette in Midnight Rush, which not only features a stunning sparkly ocean blue that makes the perfect accent color, but also includes pretty metallic grays and a vibrant off-white. (I love taking an eyeliner brush and dabbing a little of the blue in my inner crease for an extra pop of color).
Whether it’s with makeup or by adding fun pops of color through your accessories, blue is one of the freshest, most fun ways to stand on trend. Above are a few of my favorite items!
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