Two times a year, Fashion Week comes to New York City and with it brings the world’s top beauty experts. The backstage pros, such as beauty experts and make up artists, gave up some of their beauty secrets. These beauty lifehacks from this springs New York Fashion Week are easy to achieve in the real world. You’ll be up to date with the latest looks with simple solutions that are quick. If you’ve got a lot of money to spend, you’ll find high end products on Sephora. If you’re looking for your dollar to stretch a little further, check out great discounts online for this seasons make up and hair products.
1. Best Practice for Keeping Glitter Make Up On
Glitter is coming back and it’s being used to give a fierce look. The beauty secret is this: use lip gloss as the adhesive agent. You put a layer of lip gloss wherever you want glitter and then put a layer of course glitter over top. To perfect where the glitter goes, especially on eyelids, you can use surgical tape. It’s much less sticky and you can use it to remove any residual glitter from your face.
To add sparkles to your face, you can use a thick cream instead of using glue. This keeps the face moisturized as well as making the sparkles stick.
2. Contouring is Queen
Contouring your face enhances your beautiful features. The technique has long been used in fashion, but it was big talk at Fashion Week in New York, indicating it’s part of the season’s look. So here’s the beauty secret: use short, quick strokes when you add your bronzer to the hollow area of your cheeks. This will give you a natural-looking shadow.
A new discovery for the bronzer was creating a subtle tan on the face. Just put some bronzer gently across your nose, forehead and apples of the cheeks. Voila! You have just been sun-kissed.
3. The Moody Eye and the Bright Smokey Eye
At Fashion Week, the moody eye was toned down from black to gray. Regardless of the tone-down, there is still a concern of the messy raccoon eyes. Here’s the secret from beauty experts, layer powder shadows with cream shadows. this is the perfect formula to avoid makeup from smearing.
For the bright smokey eye, begin with a colored cream shadow on the eyelids. Take a long, full bodied shadow brush and buff the color outwards. To further diffuse the edges, use concealer.
4. Easy Tricks for Nail Art
To achieve a splatter effect on your nails, use a bobby pin or stir-stick to pick up nail polish. Then blow the polish over your nails.
To get the perfect nude nails, it’s easier to achieve when you layer them. You to change a polish that is too pale by adding a warmer nude tone over top. If there’s a formula that’s too opaque, you can dilute it with some drops of clear coat.
5. Hair Secrets to Get the Hottest Fashion Week Looks
One of the top desired hairstyles at fashion week was the slept in waves. To achieve the look, you’ll want to use your flat iron. Bend the hair naturally and clip it with the hair iron. As you release your hair, make little S shapes. Leave the end straight.
Another trick for the beach waves look is to do it the old fashioned way. Create ropy waves with a diffuser which you’ll place over a blow-dryer. Use some kind of prepping spray that will hold the strands as you scrunch them. Blast your hair as you scrunch. You can achieve extra volume at the roots by flipping your head upside down and scrunching your hair as you blow dry with the diffuser from the underside.
Featured photo credit: Girl Playfully Laughing Whilst Sitting On A Boat At The Beach/Ed Gregory via stokpic.com
