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I drew in new eyebrows on top of my glued-down ones, creating her thinner, more arched eyebrows with a creamy brow pomade. I also dusted a small amount of the contour powder in my eye crease, to tie everything together seamlessly.

Using a fluffy eyeshadow brush, I used my contour powder to blend my nose contour into my brow bone. Then I used a creamy white eye pencil in the middle of each bag, blending that out to highlight and create a three-dimensional shape. Then I applied 1/2 lashes to the outer corners of my eyes, to create a more cat-like shape.Īlong my lower lash line, I needed to recreate her prominent eye shape, meaning the slight eye bags she has. Using my matte brown contour powder on an eyeliner brush, I drew in the shadows. To recreate her eyes, I used a fine-tip black liquid eyeliner to sharpen the inner corners at the tear duct, and applied liquid eyeliner to the outer two-thirds of my top lash line, blurring that with a matte black eye shadow. Then, along the high points of my cheekbones, I used Too Faced Candlelight Glow to add a bit of shine and three-dimensionality to my cheekbones.Īngelina Jolie has a really distinct eye shape, which is quite different from my natural eye shape. Once my jawline was carved out, I used a pressed powder foundation (in a shade close to my highlight colour) and applied that along my jawline, especially at the outer corners just below the cheekbone contour, to emphasize the square shape of Angelina Jolie’s jaw.

In my case, that was deepening my cheekbone contour (and bringing it down at an angle down towards my chin to mimic her face shape), and carving the living daylights outta my jawline.Īngelina’s jaw could cut through a diamond, and mine could maybe cut a soft cheese at best? So that part needed some serious makeup magic. Then, using a small eyeliner brush, I reshaped the tip of my nose to be more angular, the way hers is, then blended that out to hide any harsh lines.Īfter that medium contour shade, I used Too Faced Chocolate Soleil matte powder as a deeper contour to really reshape places that needed extra work. I contoured down the sides of my nose to reinforce the illusion of a wider nose bridge, and gave myself the appearance of a shorter nose by shading the bottom of my nose tip. I used Benefit’s Hoola matte bronzer to make my forehead appear more square-shaped, as Angelina’s is, to carve out my cheekbones, and to reshape my nose. Next, I set all of those liquid/cream products with Fenty setting powder, so it would stay in place as I applied my powder contour. Angelina Jolie has a wider nose bridge than me, so I used this cream highlight to create that illusion. Then I applied Fenty foundation all over my face, and used an Hourglass cream stick foundation in a lighter shade to highlight the centre of my forehead, down the bridge of my nose, under my eyes, and on my chin. Lara Croft cosplay makeup: faceĪs with all my cosplays and transformations, step one is to glue down my eyebrows and conceal them, so that I have a blank canvas upon which to paint. To more closely resemble Angelina Jolie’s forehead shape, I used a matte dark brown eye shadow and shaded in the sides of my hairline slightly to make my forehead more rectangular. Thankfully I didn’t need a wig for this cosplay since I’m a brunette, so I just french-braided my hair down my back, pulled out a few tendrils in the front and added gel to them, to make them the wet-looking strands Angelina Jolie has in the movie. Smith is my favourite Angelina Jolie makeup era, so I actually replicated that style of makeup more than I did her Tomb Raider makeup look – which, to the production team’s credit – featured almost no makeup. Sorry, Alicia Vikander.įull disclosure: Mr.

She was the perfect Lara Croft and I can’t imagine that role played by anyone else. I grew up playing the Tomb Raider video games, and was (and still am) obsessed with the two Tomb Raider movies Angelina Jolie starred in. And don’t miss the little video at the end to see the transformation in action! Keep reading if you want all the details, including product links to what I used. I grew up watching Promise Phan on Youtube (anyone remember her?), and was always in awe of how she could make herself look like anyone. More recently I’ve been inspired by artists/cosplayers like JBunzie and Alyson Tabbitha, so I worked up the courage to try my hand at a realistic transformation, too.Īs soon as I finished this look, I Facetimed both my mom and my best friend, to surprise them with this face instead of my own. This was the first time I’ve ever attempted a realistic transformation into another person (i.e.

Cosplay lara croft alicia vikander tomb raider