Elizabeth Taylor's natural beauty is legendary. Use these step-by-step beauty tips to achieve her innocent and seductive movie star look.

Elizabeth Taylor's incandescent beauty was almost fully developed at a very young age, and because she was in the public eye so young, her appearance even as a woman was reminiscent of the child she had been. Her beauty is a combination of innocent and lushly seductive.

You may not have been blessed with Elizabeth Taylor's startling violet eyes but you can capture her innocent yet sultry look with these simple make-up tips. Aim for:

• matte, velvety skin
• dramatic eyebrows
• sultry eyes
• delicate, full red lips

Velvety Skin

The contrast between Elizabeth Taylor's porcelain skin and ebony hair is startling. Whatever your skin tone, you can master a soft velvety complexion using a liquid or cream foundation to cover any redness, and to even out your skin tone.

If you need to, apply concealer to any areas that the foundation doesn't cover, particularly if you have darkness under your eyes or any blemishes. Use a foundation brush or a makeup sponge to blend and a translucent powder on a large powder brush to set. You want to achieve a matte but natural look, so make sure you use just enough to dull any shine and set your foundation/concealer.

You will want to apply a small amount of rosy blush to contour your cheeks. Use as little as possible, since you don't want to look like you're wearing blush.

Dramatic Eyebrows

Taylor has naturally full eyebrows that enhance her beauty. Her brows were as iconic to her image as her violet eyes. The key is to exaggerate your natural brow for a powerful, sensual shape.

Use a brow pencil or a brow powder/eyeshadow in a shade that matches your natural brow colour/hair colour but is a slightly deeper shade. Fill in any thin areas and slightly over-draw your natural brow if you need to.

Try to capture the classic brow shape that is a slightly rounded square shape at the start (hold a pencil straight up in line with the outer corner of your nostril, this is where your brow should start), arched at the outside center (hold the pencil so that it is touching the side of your nostril and is in a diagonal line with the outside of your iris as you look straight ahead) and tapered to a thinning point (hold the pencil on a diagonal line so it lines up with the outer corner of your eye).

Sultry Eyes

Taylor's famous violet eyes were the focal point of her look and naturally rimmed with thick dark lashes. She enhanced the effect with dark eyeliner and lots of mascara in classic 1950s style.

Start with a liquid eyeliner in a dark brown if you're fair, or black if you've got a darker skin complexion. The idea is sultry, not trashy. Line your upper lid, using an angle brush, starting from the inside eye and sweeping across to the outside, slightly extending it past the outside corner. You want to achieve a thick, curvy line, so repeat as needed.

To soften the effect, use a dark brown powder over top of the dried liquid eyeliner. This also helps to set the eyeliner. Smudge the same powder slightly under your eyes so it's heavier towards the outside and lighter towards the inside corner. Smudge it into your lashline, and blend out to soften the effect.

For Taylor's wide-eyed look, you can also use a flesh-toned or white eye pencil to line the inside of your eyes.

Curl your lashes, apply false lashes if you like, and use a black mascara on the top lashes, for the fullest, most dramatic effect possible.

Delicate Lips

Taylor's full mouth was sometimes enhanced with nude colours to further dramatize her eyes, but she is best known for a deep red-pink or classic red mouth. You want to achieve balance with the rest of this dramatic but natural face, so choose a rosy red cream lipstick.

Using a lip pencil in the same shade as your lipstick, line your lips and fill them in. Taylor's lips are naturally softly rounded into almost a heart-shape, so you may wish to slightly alter the shape of your own.

Using a lip brush, apply a thin layer of lipstick to your lips. Blot with a tissue, reapply and repeat. This process gives your lip colour an almost stained quality. You may wish to apply a small amount of a slightly glossy lipstick in a slightly lighter shade to the center of your bottom lip. This gives the lips a 3-dimensional, full effect.