This past weekend, Brandon and I hunkered down, built a living room fort and watched nearly 9 hours of Lord of the Rings. It was amazing, it was tiring, it was snack-crazy.

One of the things I noticed during this insane marathon was how amazing Liv Tyler’s makeup and hair looked. I mean, I know she was supposed to be uber-elf and all, but the makeup is easy to translate into a real-life, non-elf look.

• Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse Foundation, $7 - A matte foundation is the key to this look, but the mousse texture won’t cause dryness or flaking. Use all over the face: especially under the eyes.
• Mark Get Bright Hook-Up Highlighter, $6 - Apply highlighter to the apples of your cheeks, add a dot on your chin and put liberally on your brow bone too.
• Studio Gear “In a Pinch” Cheek Stain, $15 - For a naturally rosy-cheeked look, put a few dabs right on top of the highlighter and make sure to blend into skin before it sets. Warm the tube in your hands before applying to help with blending.
• Revlon 12-Hour Colorstay Quad, $6 - Apply a light layer of the darkest color in the quad right along the lash line with a small brush. Smudge it right into the upper lashes. You want to enhance your natural lash line with creating an actual line (as you would with eyeliner). Now, focus on the lightest color in the quad. Apply that all over the eyelid, all the way up to the brow bone. Make sure to get some on the inner and outer corners of the eyes.
• Bare Escentuals “Glimpse” Eyeshadow, $13 - Use a tiny bit of this just on your eyelid itself. And by tiny, I mean tiny. No crazy shimmer action. You want the eyes to look as though you aren’t wearing any eye makeup. The annoying thing about doing this is that once you start trying to make it look like you aren’t wearing any, the more you have to use. Anyway, just use a little bit!
• Cover Girl Outlast Lipstain in Everbloom, $9 - Cover Girl Lipstain is my favorite brand of stain. It stays for hours and is true to the packaging color. If you find your lips are getting too dry, just layer on some clear balm like Carmex.
• Maybelline Define-A-Lash Mascara in Brownish Black, $7 - This mascara is great. It defines and lengthens without clumping and using a brown color will make your lashes look naturally long instead of mascara-laden.

I’ve stolen lots of makeup ideas from movies, like Jennifer Aniston’s look in The Break-Up. (Horrible movie, great makeup.)

Any movie makeup that you’ve tried to copy or copied successfully?