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Watch Elizabeth Taylor’s Incredible Smoky Eye Tutorial

She was the original.

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It may seem like beauty bloggers and Instagram stars are overtaking your newsfeed and dictating everything that’s cool and in these days. And while they are, without question, the new arbiters of beauty trends—whether matte lips, precisely defined brows or contour mania—they are also the perfect embodiment of that often quoted sentence: “Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

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So if you need a little break from keeping up with the all the fleeting beauty trends these days, you’ll really enjoy this rare “tutorial” from Elizabeth Taylor demonstrating a look that is truly timeless. Celebrity makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic posted the footage to his Instagram account recently. The clip shows Taylor expertly applying shadow and liner to her eyes in just seconds using a brush that looks like something you get in an eye palette.

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For the full look, watch YouTube video below. We recommend waiting until the end for another style lesson from the icon.

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