Dita Von Teese Makeup Tricks

How to do your makeup like Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese doesn't turn heads, she breaks necks. Her audacious look channels a living, breathing Betty Boop, and her signature stage performances hark back to the age of Burlesque. Never one to embrace a natural look, her makeup is an ode to 1940s glamour. Get Dita Von Teese's makeup look with these tips or try it on in our virtual makeup studio.

Full brows lend Dita Von Teese's face a most dramatic look. Keep magnifying mirrors out of sight while you vow to grow your brows. While you may not be able to copy Dita's brows exactly, you will be able to grow a fuller pair that will take years off your face. If your brows don't grow in thick, resort to brow stencils, which will help you draw on even brows like The Dita.

To give your eye makeup a glamorous edge like Dita, keep the eyelids bare, save for tawny eye shadow applied in the crease. Apply black liquid liner, as thick as you desire, in one continuous sweeping motion, winging it upward and outward at the outer corner of each eye to create a Cleopatra effect. Skip dark eyeliner on the bottom. Instead, line the rims of your lower lashes with white eyeliner and follow with volumizing mascara on the top and bottom lashes.

Think burlesque and pick out a bold red lipstick. Get Dita Von Teese's sophisticated Old Hollywood makeup effect by skipping the gloss and keeping the lips matte. Set with translucent powder, blot, then immediately reapply the color for a look that stays put well into the wee hours. After you've finished, go back over your lips with a red lip liner pencil. The trick is to outline your cupid's bow in dramatic fashion like pinup girls and Hollywood starlets used to do. --Stephanie Simons

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