Look of the Week: Camilla Belle’s Sultry, Smoky Cat Eyeliner

We’re constantly updating our Last Night’s Look gallery with all the best red-carpet moments (gorgeous dresses! dazzling accessories! sky-high heels!). Now, let’s talk beauty. Each week, we’ll be highlighting one of the most gorgeous makeup and/or hair moments, along with details on how to recreate the look — straight from the makeup artist or hairstylist — in our feature, Look of the Week.

Cooler weather is right around the corner, which means it’s time to start breaking out your moody eye shadow palettes! But for the few weeks before fall officially begins, we’ve got an in-between-seasons makeup look to rock — a sultry smoky cat-eye as seen on the gorgeous Camilla Belle.

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For the Salvatore Ferragamo 100-year anniversary celebration in Beverly Hills, Belle relied on her makeup artist of over a decade, Brett Freedman, to create the super-glam look shown above.

Inspired by the dress (what else?) — a black-and-green lacy sheath — Freedman knew he had to play up Belle’s eyes to team with the gorgeous design and her slicked-back hair style for the star-studded event. But as it turns out, the actress was a bit apprehensive of the smoked-out eye — at least at first.

“Since [Camilla] was going to have a high neck and hair back, we felt a dramatic eye was in order,” he tells PEOPLE. “[But] she wasn’t fully onboard until she got in the dress and saw the look as a whole.”

So how’d he get the smudged liner look? By starting with a winged cat eye, Freedman says.

After applying a cream-colored eye shadow (from Saucebox’s Étude eye shadow palette) to Belle’s eyelids, crease and brow bone, the makeup pro created the framework of an extended cat eye on the actress’s crease with M.A.C’s Penultimate Liquid Eyeliner in Rapidblack, and then smudged the liner with a matte black powder from the same palette using a tiny brush.

He then blended a coffee-colored shadow (from the same palette) to create an ombré effect with the liner, and added a touch of evergreen eye shadow between the black cat-eye tail and chocolate shadow to play up the green in Belle’s dress. As a finishing (and shimmery) touch, Freedman added a dot of an illuminating eye shadow to her tear ducts.

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Once the eyes were complete, Freedman moved on to the star’s lips, which were kept soft and neutral to let the smoky eye take center stage.

“We wanted the eyes to be the sole focus, so we did a nude lip, and she even went sans earrings to keep focus solely on the eyes,” Freedman tells PEOPLE.

The makeup guru used M.A.C’s Lip Pencil in Stripdown as an all-over color and then swept on a nude gloss (NARS’ Lip Gloss in Striptease) for a lacquer-like finish.

And as for those arches? They’re all-natural, Freedman says. “Camilla has gorgeous, full, envy-worth arches, but I did give them a hug with my Brett Brow Duo-Shade Pencil in Dark Brunette.”

What do you think of the star’s look? Will you be trying out the winged-liner look at home? Share below!

–Sarah Kinonen
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