How Ella Balinska Got Ready for Her Run Sweetheart Run Premiere at Sundance 

Ella Balinska was aglow at her first-ever Sundance Film Festival.

The 23-year-old British actor traveled to Park City for the premiere of her new film Run Sweetheart Run, a horror-thriller directed by Shana Feste, which finds the Charlie’s Angels star stepping into another powerful role as a woman going on a blind date that takes a decidedly dark turn. Arriving on the red carpet all smiles last night at the Egyptian Theater, Balinska wore an equal parts sportif and elegantly low-key Thom Browne look, layering a black turtleneck underneath a shiny leather letterman jacket with red checkered trousers and lace-boots.

On the beauty front, Balinska tapped into the dark milieu of her latest role. "Ella wanted to have fun and tie in a dramatic black smoky eye to complement her horror movie," explains makeup artist Nina Park, who began by giving the actor a sculpted glow. Given that Balinska s complexion was already fresh and glowing from a visit to Los Angeles superfacialist Kate Somerville s pop-up spa at the Montage Deer Valley, Parks prolonged the results by spraying DermalQuench Liquid Lift into her hands and pressing it into the skin for hydration, before sealing it in with Goat Milk Moisturizer for a supercharged base.

After a sheer application of foundation and warming sweeps of bronzer, Park lined the top and bottom waterlines, as well as the lids, with heavy handed swipes of Chanel s Le Crayon Khôl in Noir before blending a charcoal wash of Ombré Premiere Longwear Powder Eyeshadow on top. "Even though we were primarily using one color, I created smoldering depth by diffusing both a kohl and black shadow," says Park. "I wanted to really bring focus to the shape of her eyes." Pulling even more focus to Balinska s gaze, and adding to the sports minded elements of her ensemble, was a sleek knotted ponytail sculpted by hairstylist Matt Fugate.

From traipsing around downtown to getting the full treatment from her glam team, here Balinska provides an inside peek at how she prepped for her big night.