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"The main reason behind the trip Petra and I took to L.A. was that we had tickets to the taping of a finale of a particular TV show we tend to make a deal about on Monday nights. So as professional over-reactors, we immediately booked hairstylists and makeup artists to make us look our camera-ready-est. The problem? My makeup artist cancelled unexpectedly. And I hadn&amp;#x27;t brought much with me so I could do my own. Problem. That&amp;#x27;s when I went all MacGyver on my makeup bag. You see, I had no black eyeliner with me and not one dark eyeshadow for shading&amp;amp;#8212;things I&amp;#x27;d usually call on for such an occasion. And I didn&amp;#x27;t even have foundation with me&amp;amp;#8212;I never wear the stuff unless it&amp;#x27;s an important event. And this was. Monumentally important. But what I did have was a muted purple eyeshadow I knew I could use to make my eyes pop. And blush&amp;amp;#8212;a key ingredient in any makeup look where I don&amp;#x27;t want to look like a reanimated corpse. The rest I improvised. I had a concealer I knew I could use as foundation (it was a little thick, but you&amp;#x27;ve got to do what you&amp;#x27;ve got to do). Then I stopped and got a key product: A black eyeliner. I used it both to line my eyes and blended it into my creases for shading. And I used a body shimmer lotion I happen to bring as a highlighter on my cheekbones. It wasn&amp;#x27;t a perfect look, but I felt OK about the end product. I am an improvisational genius! And a TV star! (NOTE: I am actually neither, but humor me.) So that was my MacGyver beauty moment. What makeup products have you ever had to repurpose? Have you used lipstick for blush? Used eyeshadow and lip tint? Tell me below! *** More Ways to Get Glamour: Pick Up Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s 1,000 Beauty Dos &amp;amp; Don&amp;amp;#8217;ts to Live By Forever, On Newsstands Now! Download Glamour on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes. Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). One more PS: Did you know you can now read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photos: ThinkStock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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