FASHION Magazine

With bright hazel eyes and possibly the best eyebrows since Brooke Shields, it’s pretty much impossible for Lily Collins to not look stunning. While in Toronto this month for the TIFF premiere of Writers she walked the red carpet in an extremely elaborate Balmain dress—but it was her the simplicity of her glowing skin and dramatic lashes that held the look together. “I told Lily that I think this [red carpet] was a dress moment more than a hair and makeup moment [but we] still wanted to make her skin and her eyelashes a star,” explained celebrity makeup artist Beau Nelson. To do so, he used a full range of Victoria’s Secret VS Pro makeup products—but the real beauty was all in the application. Here are five tricks that will change the way you apply makeup:

Looks like Lily Collins is really worth her weight in gold! You might have spotted FASHION’s April cover girl wearing a gorgeous tiara in the trailer for Mirror, Mirror. Well, before you head to the theatres this weekend, here’s everything you need to know about the gilded piece: created by Van Cleef & Arpels in 1976, the headpiece features 144 diamonds set in platinum and white gold. All together, it totals 77.34 carats, or, in fairy tale terms, it works out to 11 carats per dwarf. That’s enough to make even Queen Elizabeth jealous!

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Hyper-pigmented golds, subtle silvers, dusty coppers—the list goes on and on. Metallics certainly have a range that ensures they appear on beauty trend reports season after season. In the last few weeks for instance, Fall 2012 runways have revealed a preference for rich jewel tones and duo-chromatic shades. But before we jump ahead, now’s the time to get glitzed up in spring’s favourite metallic: bronze.

Princess Diary
By Dennis Hensley

Lily Collins embarks on a thoroughly modern fairy tale with her first starring role,
as a sword-fighting, prince-saving Snow White.

When Lily Collins arrived for her first costume fitting as Snow White on the Montreal set of Mirror Mirror, she assumed the most fabulous getups would go to her co-star Julia Roberts, who plays the evil queen. “I saw all these dramatic, colourful, amazing outfits and I thought, ‘Wow, Julia’s so lucky,’” says the 23-year-old British-born actress who’s best known for playing Sandra Bullock’s daughter in The Blind Side. “And then they started bringing them in, and I said, ‘Is this for me?’ The first outfit took 25 minutes to get into, and when I looked in the mirror I got teary-eyed.” Then there were the elaborate sets; she describes a giant indoor forest and 40 tons of salt for snow. “I was sprinting through this huge room of trees, in my ball gown, sword-fighting, going up cliffs,” she marvels. “When the crew brought their kids onto set, they would see me and start crying. They were like, ‘Blanche Neige!’”

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Not one but two Snow White–inspired films are coming out in 2012, sparking a battle over which will be the fairest. Mirror, Mirror, starring Julia Roberts and Lily Collins appears to be a comedic twist on the classic tale, whereas Snow White and the Huntsman, with Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart, has a fight-to-the-death Game of Thrones–esque tone.