Keira Knightley’s Handy Make-up Tips For Flat-chested Girls, Drag Queens, Etc

If you’ve seen Atonement or Pride And Prejudice – or, really, just seen Keira Knightley out and about – then you would be aware that the lovely lass is about as busty as co-star James McEvoy. So, you might also have been confused when, in the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, she appeared to be bustin’ out all over like nobody’s business.

Well, Knightley has helpfully revealed the decidedly retro tricks of the trade that gave her cleavage its heaving depth in all those ripped bodices – good, old-fashioned make-up!

It was all an illusion, made possible by the film-studio art of “bosom make-up”. It is a skill from Hollywood’s golden age that fell out of favour with the advent of silicone enhancement.

Miss Knightley said: “They painted my tits on me for the films, which is extraordinary because it’s kind of a dying art form – in the past, they used to have whole sections of the studios devoted to bosom make-up.

“And I loved it, completely loved it. Because it was the first time in my life I had big tits, and I didn’t even need surgery.’

She said the process of creating the cleavage took 45 minutes every morning before filming started.

A make-up artist would apply a slightly darker shade of base make-up between Miss Knightley’s own breasts to create a shadow to increase the ‘cleavage effect’.

Beginner drag queens, male participants in Year 12 muck-up week “cross-dressing day”, sit up and take note. “Boobs” drawn on with black texta will no longer cut it.