Just when you thought makeup was going to stick to being all about clean lines or soft, smokey looks, spring 2013′s beauty trends took a turn towards the smudgy and grungy. Various looks using kohl pencil on the waterline – or otherwise – made their way onto the runways. Following on from that theme, here are 5 video tutorials for using kohl pencil to create…

One of Ellen Von Unwerth‘s strengths is her ability to pick a theme, and just go for it full-force. There’s no room for ambiguity: her shoots and videos – like this one, which stars Ashley Smith as a wildly dominatrix-like cowgirl – commit fully to their thematic choice in everything from styling to soundtrack, and that’s exactly why they work. Beyond the lingerie, leather harnesses,…

It’s hard to go past red lips and a flick of black eyeliner. Ashley Smith covers the November 2012 issue of Elle Mexico.

Ashley Smith stars in another of Schön! Magazine‘s cinematic 19th issue shoots, this one going by the name American Beauty. The title may be a nod to cinema, but the shoot openly confesses to being born in praise of Ashley Smith herself, the American model du jour. The bold makeup is part Geisha, park punk. When paired with Jessica Bobince’s glamourously maximalist styling, Smith may…

There were all born to be models, but its Anja Konstantinova‘s pint-sized bombshell body that steals the show in this video for French Revue De Modes. Born To Be A Model was directed by Thierry Le Gouès for the magazine’s 21st issue, and features – alongside Australian Anja – Ashley Smith, Ava Smith, Chrystal Copland, Deimante Misiunaite, Heidi Mount, Irina Denisova, Keilani Asmus, Merethe Hopland,…

Ashley Smith at times gets typecast into busty-babe roles that have her posing for Terry Richardson or looking the pinnacle of grunge-rock chic. But leave it to photographer Pierre Dal Corso to present us with one of the most beautiful shoots of Ms Smith we’ve yet laid eyes on: strikingly natural and with her unique features – her gap tooth smile, her freckles – played…

With an aesthetic Daniel described as school girls gone bad, Veda’s fall 2012 collection melded elements of sexual confidence and maturity with elements of youthfulness. Attending the show as a guest, Ashley Smith epitomised the mix fittingly with her playful hairstyle: sophisticated from the front, revealing a youthful duo of bobby-pinned buns from the back.

It doesn’t matter if it’s one solitary necklace or a whole treasure-trove of gold bangles and cuffs; Ashely Smith wears her jewellery with attitude. And it’s the jewellery that’s the focus of this shoot by Hicham Riad, silver or gold, shiny or matte, against a palette of all-black outfits. The styling by Anne Rabeux is at its best when harder, faster, more fetishist – rather…

Do you ever dream yourself away from the daily grind and into a fantasy land? Surely we all do. In this film for Honor NYC, Ashley Smith dreams herself as a Desert Queen, the ruler of a vast and empty kingdom that she can roam; a personal playground. But the film asks the question of whether that fantasy part of us can become real. Todd…

The second issue of Antidote magazine centres around something most, if not all, women are enamoured by: shoes. The roll call of models for the six covers is impressive, namely Constance Jablonski, Anne Vyalitsyna, Magdalena Frackowiak, Sigrid Agren, Ashley Smith and Hanne Gaby Odiele – all decked out in little bar for that essential accessory we call the high heel. In an accompanying video preview…