Get the Look: Marilyn Monroe
with
Kate McCarthy
Marilyn Monroe lovers already take styling tips from the pre-eminent fashion icon of the twentieth century - and you can, too. See how to get easy Marilyn Monroe hair and makeup that is perfect for a costume or a sexy night out on the town.
Transcript: Get the Look: Marilyn Monroe
Hi! I'm Kate McCarthy with About.com - today we're going to learn how to do a Marilyn Monroe styled look.Curling Marilyn Monroe Hair
First we're going to start with the hair, and we're going to curl it up, away from the head. Doing towards the front, make sure you do the curls so the whole of the curl is facing forward. Take some hairspray and just spray it down so the curls hold.Marilyn Monroe Hair Volume
Now you're going to take your comb and just lightly comb through the curls, but don't comb them all the way out. And you're going to take the front, and you're going to rat it up just a little bit. Now, you're just going to lightly curl these ends, and then you're just going to take your fingers and just style the top. You can style them any way you want - Marilyn Monroe's hair would always be pretty free - the curls would just kind of flop wherever they needed to go and it would look fabulous. You can definitely poof the back up and give it lots of volume.Marilyn Monroe-Style Makeup
So now we have the hair, so now we're going to move on to the makeup portion of the look, which is going to be that classic bedtime eye and the red lip. For the eyes you want to take a liquid shimmer that's white and you're going to put it in the corners - inner corners of your eyes - and pull the color out to the rest of your lid. And make sure to get a lot of the highlighter on the brow bone.Now, you're just going to take your white eye shadow base and cover the lid. Now you're going to take another white base that has more shimmer in it, and apply it all over the lid. So now you're just going to take a mat brown and very lightly add just a little in the crease. Alright, now we're going to go for the black liner, and we're going to do a classic cat eye on the top. You want to keep the line thin on the inner corners, and then as you come out to the outer corners, start bringing the line up thicker. And you want to just bring the line gradually out to the side of your eye.
Now we're just going to take a brown blush and we're just going to contour a little bit under the cheekbones - don't put it on the apple of your cheek, put it right beneath the hollows. And then we'll go with more of a matte pink, light pink blush and put that on the apples of your cheeks.
Marilyn Monroe Lips
And then we'll do the red lips. So you'll start kind of in the center of your lips, build the color out, and then you'll take your red gloss and just put it over the whole lip. Now to make the lips really pop, take a sponge or foundation brush and get some concealer, and you're just going to trace the outer lip line. And then you're going to blend that downwards. And now for the best part, the little mole.And here we have it, the final Marilyn Monroe style look! Thanks for watching, and to learn more, visit us on the Web at About.com.