Make-Up Artist To The Stars Rae Morris Gives Us Her Best Beauty Tips

When Australian make-up artist Rae Morris gives out beauty advice, the whole room waits with bated-breath to hear what she has to say.

With over 25 years experience in the industry, Morris knows exactly what she's talking about, having made-up some of the most well-known and beautiful faces in the world, including the likes of Naomi Campbell, Shanina Sheik, Pink and Cate Blanchett.

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Now on her sixth book, Rae Morris' Makeup Masterclass, which comes in an iPhone and iPad compatible version, Morris revealed to Yahoo7 Lifestyle how to apply eyeliner correctly and the top beauty products she always has in her bag.

What's the best make-up tip to make your eyes appear bigger?

Do your under eyes first. Most women do their top eyeshadow first, then they do the bottom and then they join the bottom to the top. Most women make is that they stop their make-up at the corner of their eye. As a make-up artist and even on the red carpet, I have never ever seen eye make-up stop in the corners, it’s always extended out.

If you want to lift your eyes, you get more lift from what you do under your eye than what you do on top. So if you want to do an eyeliner and you’ve got a droopy eye, you do it underneath, don’t do it from the top.

If you’re going to put make-up under the eye, keep the eye-shadow slightly curved but as straight as possible, as it causes your eyes to droop.

What about applying eyeliner?

When you look straight ahead in the mirror, find the highest point of your top eyelid, where it peaks the most. Put the tiniest little dot of eyeliner right there.

From that point of your eye towards your nose, keep the eyeliner as fine as you can, as close to the lash-line as possible and stop there.

Do the outer flick and when you look straight ahead, where the flick ends should be a similar height to where your eyelid peaks. If your flick drops lower than that point, it can droop your eye a little bit.

Do your eyeshadow first, don’t just go straight in with eyeliner.

Use an angled brush and black eyeshadow and stencil it out. The great thing with eyeshadow is if you make a mistake you can fix it.

What are the top three make-up brushes every woman should own?

A big foundation brush - (Morris recommends her Radiance foundation brush from her own collection). The reason is, it’s so soft it cuts your foundation time in half and it makes pretty much all foundation look as close to airbrush as possible, because of the way it buffs it into the skin.

A contour brush – You actually get the most perfectly blended contour cheek with a contour brush in less than two strokes.

An angled brush – Because you can get the finest rounded eyebrow and it doubles as an eyeliner brush as well.

What are the top make-up items you have in your bag every day?

I am obsessed with BB cream. I break-out in foundations and I’m so pale so I need sunscreen.

I have mascara and a brow pencil in my bag. I keep it quite minimal. As a make-up artist, the clients don’t know what I’m capable of. I like to be a blank canvas and have people wonder what I can do.

You've worked with so many celebrities, what's your favourite moment?

I loved when Kelly Rowland asked me for my autograph. Technically she asked me to sign a book but I’m claiming she asked for my autograph.

There was a moment with Pink when her security had to go and handle something and I was left with her and I remember saying: "ok, I don’t know karate, I don’t know what I can do, I don’t how to protect you" and she said "honey, I don’t need to be protected, if anything I’ll be protecting you.”

Who would you love to work with?

Angelina Jolie. It’s her face, it’s just magic.

What’s the next big make-up trend we should be looking out for?

I think we’re getting a bit exhausted with overpainted, heavily contoured skin. I think it’s just going to back to women just looking beautiful and elegant and the minimal trend’s going to be there for a long time. I believe you can get the same result with a loss less product.

I just say to women: find a woman who walks the red carpet, who’s of a similar age and similar skin and hair colour and follow their lead. And ask yourself would Angelina Jolie wear yellow eyeshadow with bright purple lights and sparkly eyeshadow? Use those women as a guide, as an example. They don’t follow trends.

So what's new with this book?

Hand on heart, it’s everything I know about make-up because I’ve learned a lot since the last one. My make-up teacher used to say to me: "When you learn a new secret tell the world because it forces you to learn a new one". I’ve never forgotten that.

I really challenge myself to explain and break it down so it’s not so complicated. That’s why it’s 426 pages. I found out that in Australia one in five women are from Indian, Asian or Eastern European decent, so I wanted to reflect that,

Rae Morris' Makeup Masterclass'' is out now in iPad ($19.99) and iPhone ($5.99) format, with short-form tutorials, essential makeup tips and all video content.

To purchase a limited edition hardcover ($69.99) visit www.raemorris.com.au.

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