Tim Gunn's Guide to Style

Krizia from www.myBeautyMatch.com on Tim Gunn beauty and style advice!

Season one of Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style might be over, but thanks to re-runs there are still many great beauty tricks to learn from the older episodes. I have to be honest and state that I absolutely love Tim Gunn’s show! I personally think that every single woman should actually watch the show because there is so much to learn.

I was recently watching an episode where Tim and his co-host Veronica Webb transform Karen Vito from a woman who dressed with little elegance into a sophisticated 41-year old mother of one.

Other than the fact that Karen was still trying to recapture, or should I say hold on to her youth, by dressing with clothes that is one or two sizes two small, she also had is all wrong when it came to makeup and hair style.

It’s funny because for the first half of the show Karen was so concerned with not being transformed into an “old lady”, but she didn’t understand that her clothing options and her makeup were making her look dated.

The first thing you notice about Karen is that she wears too much jewelry, she shows too much cleavage, she wears way too much makeup and her hair is far too long and it has no shape.

Trust me, I’m a huge advocate of long hair one women as they age, if it suits them. You might remember my tribute to the women of Desperate Housewives. That said, shapeless hair will drag your face down and make you look warn out and old.

Karen committed a number of beauty sins:

* her hair made her look like a rocker chick from the 80s (and she’s a hairdresser by profession) br/>

* she wore very dark purple lipstick

* she contoured her eyes with dark black eyeliner that boxes her eyes and made them look smaller

* she must have been a sun worshipper because her forehead was line with depth wrinkles

Veronica Webb enlisted the help of Mark Garrison (makeup artist) and Vincent Longo (hair stylist) to give Karen a more polished look.

The results where dazzling!

Here’s what Mark Garrison did:

* he tones down the makeup and softened the colours Karen used to chose

* he focused on applying makeup on Karen’s top lid to avoid that boxed-up look

* he used purple shades to accentuate her brown eyes

* he applied a reddish-brown lipstick that brightened her face

Here’s what Vincent Longo did to take Karen from 80s rocker chick to contemporary sophisticate:

* he cut off all of Karen’s dead ends

* he changed the color of her highlights from a blond to a copper shade

* he blow dried her hair to give her a more polished and tamed look

Karen was trapped in an image that used to work for her, but it stopped working and she didn’t realize it. She was looking like a caricature when she thought she looked sexy. Tim Gunn (and his experts) transformed this woman who used to look a bit trashy into a sophisticated woman. I know it’s only new clothes, a little bit of makeup and some hair styling product, but the whole thing made Karen a much happier and confident person!

Project Runway host and fashion extraordinaire, Tim Gunn gives SeenON! an exclusive look at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.

Check it out here!