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In 2007, while giving Adele’s hair a little touch-up before she headed out with friends for the evening, Michael Ashton asked if he could just add a finishing touch to her look. She agreed, and five minutes later left the house with a fierce cat eye in place and new signature look in tow. Nine years later, and Ashton is still doing Adele’s cat eye on the regular – including for her current tour Down Under.
But while there’s no doubt he is the master of the cat eye, there’s actually another beauty trick that Ashton likes to do on his A-lister clients that we discovered earlier today. Meeting up with him and the Marc Jacobs Beauty team – Ashton has recently signed on as an ambassador for the brand – we got him to let us in on a few trade secrets.
And the most surprising by far was his use of concealer. Although he spot conceals in all the usual places – we’re talking under the eye area, around the nostrils, and down the bridge of the nose – he also likes to use the Remarkable Concealer to clean out just under the bottom of the lip area.
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He explains that while it’s best to avoid using too much product on the top of the lip, as some women may have a little bit of fuzz there, the bottom lip is “generally a good to go area”. He reveals: “Sometimes you have a little bit of redness or some fine lines under the lip, so use the concealer to just tighten up underneath using the middle finger. Just run the concealer under the lip and blend it down.”
Putting aside our intrigue at his surprising use of concealer, it would have been remiss of us not to ask how he manages to perfect Adele’s incredible cat eye (after nine years of working together, that’s a whole lot of cat eyes.) His response: “To create the ultimate cat eye, I use the Fineliner to etch the initial shape. I start right at the lashline from the middle and take it to the outer corner, then come back along the inner corner of the eye. I then go over the top with the Magic Marc’er and do a product cocktail where I layer the two products together. I add more pressure in the middle and then as I come to end, I do a gentle flick. I start with a more matte pencil and then finish with a liquid, so you get that more opaque colour pay-off.”
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