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Scarlett Johansson's Make-up

Get Scarlett's sexy, natural look

She's 21 and she's been in dozens of films, but Scarlett Johansson seems unscathed by the biting Hollywood glamour factory. While she has confessed to already using anti-aging skin products, she promises she'll never be rail thin and has made her own fashion choices on the red carpet, for better or worse. We love her acting, and her claim that, 'Whatever you see on my face in a movie is the way I feel. I'm not lying to you.' What do we see on Scarlett Johansson's face? An impish, pouty-lipped, fun-loving innocence coupled with seriously killer, smouldering eyes. Make-up artist Deborah Grayson tells us how to get her look.

Step 1: Start by cleansing your face with a grainy cleanser or one of those at-home microdermabrasion kits, which will roll off dead skin and any flaky pieces, leaving a 'smooth canvas' on which to apply your make-up.

Step 2: Apply a lightweight moisturising lotion to the entire face, neck and shoulders. Make sure it's lotion, not cream, recommends Grayson, because the consistency of lotion is much lighter and easier to blend; it's also less likely to stain if you're applying it to areas that come into contact with clothing, such as decollete and shoulders.

Step 3: With an oval-shaped fluff brush, apply a golden-yellow shimmer powder eye shadow to the entire eyelid. Just one swipe should be sufficient, because you only want a light covering.

Step 4: Next, dip the same fluff brush you used for the golden shadow into a coffee-brown shimmer powder shadow. Apply it directly over the golden-yellow, but only to the outer third of the eyelid - not the entire lid. You can use your eye as a marking point for placement, says Grayson, placing the coffee-coloured shimmer on your eyelid just above your pupil and blending outward.

Step 5: The next step is the trickiest, as you're going to line the entire inner circumference of the upper and lower eye rims. Use a clean, sharpened espresso-brown pencil and go slowly and carefully so you don't poke yourself!

Step 6: Using a cotton swab dipped into your coffee-brown powder, smudge a line directly under your lower eyes. Coupled with some natural 'bleeding,' you'll get that sexy smudge Scarlett's wearing.

Step 7: Mascara's next. Because this look is not about big lashes, Grayson recommends swiping your mascara wand with a tissue before you apply so there's just a smidgen on the brush - or using a lash tint instead of mascara, which just gives colour and no texture. Apply an extremely light layer to the upper lashes, then don't re-dip your wand, but just use the little bit that's left over to touch to the lower lashes.

Step 8: With a rounded blush brush, apply a matte rose-petal pink to the apples of the cheeks.

Step 9: Next, with a translucent-nude-coloured loose powder and a velvet puff, blend over the foundation in the same direction you applied it. This will diffuse it, giving a look of muted colour to your cheeks.

Step 10: Using the same nude-translucent powder and a full-headed powder brush, sweep powder lightly over your entire face. This will add a soft matte polish to the skin.

Step 11: Finish with no-colour gloss.

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