Windswept

About this Look

An updated version of Cher’s ‘Moonstruck’ look. 

Step-by-Step Guide

BASE

I started out with my base. I primed with Too Faced HangoveRx. I then used the new L'Oreal concealers to conceal. I'm kind of ... ambivalent about these right now. I bought the two lightest shades because I couldn't figure out what color I was in it. It's very heavy. I then buffed in my Catrice HD foundation with a brush and then tapped out the excess. I moved onto eyes next.

EYES

Because the Catrice self sets like no other, I moved onto my eyes. I took a clear mascara and teased up my brows, then left them be.

I took Makeup Forever Step 1 eyeshadow base and put it down. I then patted out my Dominique Cosmetics Nude Tea on top. Then, I went into the Snap Queen trio from Smashbox and took the top right shade on a fluffy brush and started to blend. Looking at reference photos of Cher in Moonstruck, she seemed to be only wearing one color and have it heavier in her crease, so I tried to emulate that.

After I'd built up enough of an even crease, I took a flat brush and gently patted it on my lid, not changing colors at all. 

Then, I took the NYX Epic Ink liner in Brown and did some liner. In the original film, she doesn't wear liner with her day to day look. However, to modernize it, I felt a line with a minor, MINOR flick was good. I tend to not wear eyeliner, but I thought the brown liquid wing looked so soft and pretty. 

Back to the brows - I lightly filled in with Benefit Brow Contour Pro in brown, then took Glossier Boy Brow in Brown and filled in some more. 

Then I moved back into the face.

FACE

The face was the part about this that I had a lot of issues with. I took the BECCA Be A Light palette and the brighten powder and set my under eyes. This concealer did get a tad creasy, which annoyed me, so I went back a few times with a qtip to fix it.

Then I moved into the blush. The original look was so blush heavy, and I do not look anything like Cher, so emulating this part was the hardest. I felt as if the amount of product I used was insane.

I started with the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk blush. I took a Real Techniques Setting brush and set next to my hairline and moved in about halfway towards the center of my face. I gave it a large area, so that it would mimic a contour, as I didn't use any of that. 

Then I look my Hourglass Diffused Heat blush and my Sephora 204 brush - the angled side - and went in from the midpoint of my face sweeping up into the apple of my cheek. This blush has such a soft, luminous look to it that resembles a wind burn in a good way. I then took the rounded side of that brush and buffed the two together, and took a little more and rubbed it on the tip of my nose. 

Then, for the final step, I put a little Tuscan Sun from Makeup Geek and ran it across my cheeks softly, then added some to my 204 brush and buffed the mixture across my forehead to add dimension. 

LIPS

I took Soap & Glory's Lip liner in 'Rhubaraella' and lined my lips with the precise end, then filled in with MAC Blankety. 

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I curled my lashes using my Kevyn Aucoin lash curler, then put a layer of NARS Climax for volume and Maybelline Total Temptation for fullness. 

I also sprayed my whole face down with Fix + to get rid of the heavy matte finish of the foundation.