Color Stories: Beauty Expert Nadine Jolie Shows Her Love For Plum Splendor
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.”
Plum is all the rage this season, and I couldn’t be happier. As a beauty blogger, I’m always on the lookout for trends, but I’m primarily interested in beauty that’s wearable, classic—in short, beauty that’s simply pretty. Plum fits the bill and then some. It’s a little more unexpected than traditional pink, but it still flatters a variety of complexions, and now it’s available in supremely wearable, supremely covetable items from lipstick to blush to eyeshadow. (Ahh, eyeshadow!)
I’m all about smokey eyes—I feel naked leaving the house without some sort of drama on my lids—so my go-to eyeshadow palette this spring is this stunner: Lancôme Color Design 5-Pan Palette in Plum Splendor. I’m genuinely obsessed! Use the darkest shade—a shimmery black—near the lash-line, the lightest shade—a dusty rose—on the brow bone, and then blend the three other colors into the crease. Smokey eyes can often seem daunting, but they’re really incredibly easy. Remember: the key to a perfect smokey eye is blending, blending, blending!
Whether you’re incorporating it via your makeup look or your clothing and accessories, working plum into your style is a snap and it’s oh-so fresh and feminine for spring. Above are a few of my current favorite plum items!
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