Dec 2, 2021
egg
seen from Germany
seen from Canada
seen from Singapore
seen from Pakistan
seen from Germany
seen from Italy
seen from China
seen from Singapore
seen from Australia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Singapore
seen from Ireland
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from South Korea
seen from China
seen from South Korea
seen from South Korea
seen from Singapore
seen from Brazil
egg
Great Gatsby From the Neck Up
If you’re anything like us, you’ll be celebrating the opening of The Great Gatsby tomorrow by drinking Gin Rickeys and shouting, “It’s the bees knees!” whenever possible. Also, by dolling up in dandy ‘20s style. For the latter, we’ve got four tutorials to help you unleash your inner Daisy Buchanan.
The Garbo Brow
The goods: Primer, foundation, and concealer, plus a quality brow pencil (like Rimmel’s Professional Eyebrow Pencil) in a dark shade.
The lowdown: The ‘20s were all about The Brow—a relatively thin line (by today’s Cara Delevingne standards, at least), penciled in with the precision of a lockpicker. First, create the perfect backdrop with a paper-moon complexion. Then you’ll trace along your natural brows, accentuating the arch and elongating the outer rim to the very corner of your peepers. Get the step-by-step directions here.
Level of difficulty: Those Claudette Colbert brows are yours...as long as you’ve got a decent attention span and a steady hand (so hold off on the mint juleps).
Cupid’s Bow Lip
The goods: Heavy cream concealer, red lip liner, and a dramatic shade of burgundy lipstick (we like Bobbi Brown’s Rich Lip Color in Crimson).
The lowdown: The ‘20s lip was smaller, cuter, and rounder than your average 2013 pout. After you apply a concealer base to hold your lipstick in place, use your lip liner to exaggerate your cupid’s bow and bring the outer edges of your mouth in closer—creating that teeny tiny Betty Boop kisser. Then fill it in with a rich red lip color, the shade favored by flappers like Zelda Fitzgerald. Fast forward to 7:20 in this tutorial to get to the good stuff.
Level of difficulty: This one requires your fine motor skills to be in top form... so do not attempt this wine-mouth pout with actual wine mouth.
Faux Bob
The goods: Just bobby pins and hair ties—so, pretty much exactly what’s floating at the bottom of your purse.
The lowdown: The ultimate feminist statement, bobs were a blunt (pun intended) response to stuffy Edwardian attitudes. Ladies even lined up around the block giddy to shear their long locks back in the day. If you’re not ready to commit to a new short ‘do, it’s easy to fake it. Just pin up the bottom section of your hair, tie a loose pony, tuck the ends up and under, and voila! Jordan Baker (and Karlie Kloss) have got nothing on you.
Level of difficulty: You can probably do this halfway through a bottle of hooch.
Finger Waves
The goods: Duckbill clips, pin curl clips, tail and flat combs, and a good styling gel, like Bed Head’s Manipulator.
The lowdown: This styling technique was used to add some extra oomph to the bob. You’ll shape your hair into delicaticate S-shaped waves with a comb, pinning and securing with durable hair wax (this step-by-step video explains it in detail). Just be careful it doesn’t get messed up from necking in the back of a yellow Packard... or you know, on your couch.
Level of difficulty: This one won’t be easy. But upstaging Carey Mulligan’s look in Vogue rarely is.
