Exactly How Beyoncé Got Her Super Bowl 50 Glam
If you weren't enamored with Queen B's makeup and hair look during her Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance, then you might want to check your pulse. I immediately wanted to know how to recreate Beyoncé's insanely gorgeous coppery dream of a makeup look, not to mention her dope hair texture, which is exactly why I called up her makeup artist Sir John and reached out to the hairstylist behind her look, Kim Kimble, to get the lowdown. Here's what they told Cosmopolitan.com:
"The challenging thing about doing Beyoncé's makeup for the show was that it was during golden hour, which is right before sunset, so it was technically still during daylight," Sir John said. "Rather than giving her a darker makeup look, which can sometimes read as garish, I gave her a softer, Hawaiian-meets-Foxy-Brown-meets-Cleopatra kind of look. When the sun caught her makeup in the light, it worked for her, not against her. "
Sir John started with Bey's eyes first. He used three layers to create her Super Bowl look: "I laid down a super-warm, matte, terra cotta-toned shadow to sculpt her lids to make them appear smoky, then I patted on a rust-colored shadow right in the middle of her eyes," he told Cosmopolitan.com. Next, he mixed a copper eye shadow with Mehron's liquid transformer to make it waterproof, then tapped it directly over the rust-colored eye shadow to give it a multidimensional effect. Finally, he lined the top and bottom inner rims of her eyes with a coffee-colored eyeliner before applying "tons of black mascara."
After cleaning up any product fallout on her skin, he applied moisturizer and then put on a liquid matte foundation. "Since it wasn't a two-hour show, I approached her look as if she were going on a day date," he said. "I just used highlighter to lighten her up in certain areas and powder just on her T-zone, a taupe blush to contour her eye sockets, cheeks, and the bottom of her jaw, and then warmed up her cheeks and the sides of her forehead with bronzer." Finally, he used a gold luminizer on the high points of her cheekbones for an added subtle glow.
On her lips, Sir John decided to keep it all in the family and go for a coppery shade on them as well. "I'm not normally into frosty lips, but I totally committed to copper for this look. I figured, why not go big?" he said. So he lined the outer corners of her lips with a cork-colored liner to give them more shape and to create the first dimension of her multidimensional lip. Then, he applied L'Oréal Infallible 2-Step Lip Color in "Heaven to Henna" on her lips before taking the same coppery Mehron combo he had used on her eyes and dabbing it onto the center of her lips.
"Any time you're using metallics on the lips, you want to make sure you don't put the shimmery shade all over the mouth because it makes them look less voluminous and flat. It's more about keeping the color in the center to make them feel full and multidimensional." Finally, he had Bey blot her lips together to make sure the application of the metallic shade was evenly distributed at the center, and she was done.
Sir John told me that the backup dancers, as you probably saw, had a completely different look than Bey's. "I used cool matte brown on their eyes, rather than a warm shade, a deep coffee-colored eye liner, and a brick merlot lip for super '90s finish."
As far as Bey's magnificent mane, hairstylist Kim Kimble worked it out for the singer. "The hair was all about showing beautiful textures," she said. Kimble used a double-prong curling iron to create Beyoncé's waves and define them, and then brushed her hair from root to tip using her own Kimble Beauty Grooming Brush. "It's all about being powerful women who are confident about who you are and loving your texture."
Last but certainly not least: Bey's nails. Manicurist Lisa Logan painted on OPI's Nail Lacquer in "Black Onyx," topped it with a matte topcoat, and then applied one gold stud on each of her nails.
Basically, this Insta of Bey sums up how everyone (herself included) feels about her hair and makeup look from Super Bowl 50:
Yep, sounds about right. Let's just say Bey's glam squad were the real winners last night.
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