Pat McGrath

Trendy under-eye liner or lush lower lashes can turn out two ways: surprisingly sexy or sloppily smudged. Assuming you want to avoid the latter, never have southward-moving slipups again with these secrets to applying precise under-eye makeup.

Remember when you first learned to apply eye makeup: one eye shut with the other one serving to guide you? Well, it turns out that keeping both eyes open is key to achieving perfect results every time. Ensure your eyes are framed correctly, and easily, with these helpful tips when you read more.

Update a classic red lipstick look with a bold, matte hue this holiday season. "There's nothing more passionate than red," says Pat McGrath, Procter & Gamble's Global Creative Design Director, who created the look above for the Spring 2013 Prada runway. Find out her insider tips to modernizing this makeup staple when you read more.

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Spidery mascara used to make us cringe, but all over the fall runways, makeup artists coated (and coated) the models' lashes until they stuck together for a surprisingly sexy effect. Want to dial up your fringe? Don't just start piling on the product. There are steps you should follow to ensure your lashes look vampy, not trampy. I talked to makeup master Pat McGrath to get the breakdown. See her tips when you keep reading.

Dolce & Gabbana is known for its glamour, so it's only natural for the Italian house to offer a ruby-shaped lip palette for the holidays. The Lip Jewels ($60) is a quartet of cream lipsticks designed by famed makeup artist Pat McGrath, who used these colors during Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 show. The lipsticks in this Saks-exclusive palette are packed with pigment, and the wear is pretty good, too. If you're looking to splurge, here's what they look like on a regular, nonmodel lady. (Me.)

>> The video accompaniment to Louis Vuitton's Fall 2009 campaign has appeared on The Moment — it will be on louisvuitton.com next week — with Madonna, stylist Marie Amelie-Sauve, and makeup artist Pat McGrath all making appearances.  Marc Jacobs, for his part, explains the deal with the bunny ears: "There's a girl who works for us, Lucy, she's on the design team, and Adrian, one of the boys, was tying a little bit of fabric around and it reminded me of bunny.  We were thinking of all these different things like can-can dancers, and I saw this piece of fabric wrapped around Lucy's head and said, 'Bunny ears, that's what we need to finish this look.' So we made all these radzimir bunny ears and that's how it happened. I like the kind of Playboy, French coquette aspect to it."

The video! »

>> Tonight, The British Fashion Council hosted the British Fashion Awards — the British counterpart to the CFDA Awards.  Jourdan Dunn stole Agyness Deyn's Model of the Year crown, and looking shocked, managed to accept the award between tears: "My mum would like me to say I'm going to buy her a mansion but she's just going to have to accept this speech instead!"  As for Designer of the Year — an honor bestowed on John Galliano and Alexander McQueen four times each — Luella Bartley was the anointed one.

A complete list of awards, with winners in bold. »