All about the makeup

All About Eve is a story of deception which is something our favorite makeup artist, Kate O’Reilly, knows all about. Film Fatale asked Kate to show us how to use those skills of deception to beautify 1950s style for our All About Eve screening and fancy ball in The Sugar Club on May 5th.

Oh Eve, as if butter wouldn’t melt! The saccharin sweet Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter, seems like the doyenne of innocence for most of All About Eve; Film Fatale’s next installment showing on the 5th May in The Sugar Club. With that slightly boyish haircut, super soft skin and minimal makeup; Eve is often referred to as “The Kid”. She does get her chance to pile on the slap eventually but her heavily made up face is not received with as much enthusiasm. All those planning to do an Eve Harrington take note; fresh face good, plastered bad.
 

GET THE LOOK – EVE

It’s that old adage of less is more I’m afraid. Anne Baxter was a very beautiful lady so just a touch of makeup is all she required here. Think librarian chic, but with added eyebrows! The makeup consists of:
1. Matte Skin
2. Minimal cheek colour
3. Thin strong arched brows
4. Subtle black liquid liner
5. Wearable red lippy

In contrast to Eve’s youth and innocence is the heroine of our story, Margo Channing. Rocking some super curvy eyebrows and an amazing uni-lip, the ever so slightly fading beauty doesn’t worry much about her age until “The Kid” shows up... and why should she!? She looks pretty rocking to me. My favorite Margo look is when she manages to remain glamorous and imposing with her face smeared in cold cream. True glamour dahling!
GET THE LOOK – MARGO
If you’d rather not attempt to wear cold cream on your face for the entire evening then why not go for one of Bette Davis’s more glamorous moments in the film. Get your eyebrow pencils ready! Bette’s makeup check list looks something like this:
1. Matte Skin
2. Subtle blush
3. Very high arched and rounded eyebrows – use a combination of eyeshadow and pencil to create the same texture as Bette.
4. Liner on the top and bottom lash line – use a brown pencil and then smudge with brown eyeshadow. Bette is wearing this kind of eyeshadow to draw focus to her lash line and flatter her infamous eyes. If you’d like to replicate Bette’s feature but don’t have rounded eyelids like hers you can go extra heavy in your socket line and leave your eyelid pale to create the optical illusion of pretty bug eyes!
5. The uni-lip – strike straight through your cupids bow to create a single un curved line on your top lip, just like Bette! Another famous uni-lip beauty is Naomi Campbell. Bette is wearing a dark brownish red lip colour, possibly to add to the aged effect. Go for anything from deep burgundy or brownish red through to your favorite cherry red lip colour. No-one will really be able to tell the difference anyway, the film's in black and white!
6. Finish, as always, with a good squeeze of the eyelash curler and lashings of black mascara!


Keep your eye out for another fresh face as Marilyn Monroe makes one of her earliest apperances as young stalet Miss Claudia Caswell. Sporting a sleaker version of her trademark swooshy hairstyle, Marilyn is just as captivating with her handful of lines than she is in later staring roles.