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So you've got a hot Valentine's Day date... congratulations! Follow Jellybean's tips to take your makeup and hair from "whatever" to "Wow!" in eleven easy steps.
1) Put Your Hair in a Twist If your hair is shorter than shoulder length, skip this step and go with your regular do, or put your hair in cute barrettes. For everyone else, spritz some volumizing mousse on your palms and distribute all through towel-dried hair. Next, take a three-inch section of hair, separate it into equal parts and twist them around each other like a rope. Then twist the rope into a tight bun and secure it to your head with a bobby pin. Repeat until all of your hair is wrapped up - you'll wind up with about six buns. Leave them be while you start on your makeup.
2) Cleanse Your Face Starting with a clean face is the best guarantee of a flawless finish. Use a cleanser that's made for your skin type - sensitive, normal, dry, oily or combination. After you've cleansed, give your face a splash of very cold water to seal up the pores.
3) Smooth Your Skin If you have a perfect complexion, you can skip this step. Otherwise, you'll want to use a product to fake it. If your skin is normal to dry, use a tinted moisturizer in your natural skin color to even out skin tone. (Don't use foundation - it's too heavy and mask-like). Be sure to blend well around your jawline so there is no line where your makeup stops. If your skin is oily or combination, apply translucent powder all over your face and upper neck.
4) Blush It Up The trick to looking adorable and natural is to use cream instead of powder blush. Cream cheek color also lasts a lot longer. Dip fingers into a rosy colored blush and apply a small dot to the apples of your cheeks. Then use fingers to blend the color outward towards your hairline. Add a teensy touch of color to the bridge of your nose and your temples to create a natural glow that warms your entire face.
5) Ask Yourself: To Glitter Or Not to Glitter? Glitter makeup is sweet - on ONE feature. More than that and you'll look like a neon sign. So decide before applying your makeup whether you want to use glitter. If the answer is yes, choose one area of your face for its application. Glittery cheekbones (achieved with a dusting of glitter powder) will make your face look radiant. Glittery eye shadow is sexy, and glittery lips are cutesy and flirtatious. Choose your area now and make your makeup product choices for the following steps with that in mind.
6) Curl Your Lashes Before applying eye shadow, curl your eye lashes using a plastic lash curler. (Avoid metal curlers, which can yank out lashes). Clamp the curler close to your lash line, being careful not to snag lids. Tilt it up, squeezing for about 10 seconds, then release.
7) Make Gorgeous Smoky Eyes Line your upper and lower lids with a chocolate brown pencil (this shade suits every eye color). Draw the pencil all the way into the corners of eyes, which will make them look larger. The trick to getting that smoky eye look is to then go over the pencil with chocolate brown eye shadow. Next, sweep the shadow from the upper lash lines into the creases, then blend it up towards your brow bones so it looks like it's fading away.
8) Apply Mascara Finish your eye look with two coats of brown mascara (for fair-haired girls) or brown-black mascara (for everyone else). Make sure you clean the wand of excess goop before applying, so your lashes don't get clumpy. Give your first coat of mascara 5 second to dry before appling the second coat.
9) Create Kissable Lips The secret to lucious date lips is to keep them almost bare and a bit shiny. First, line all around your lips with a pencil that matches the natural shade of your lips. Don't go outside the lines - it will make your lips look clownish, not pouty. Then, use the pencil to fill in the rest of your lips. Top with a shiny, clear or pinkish gloss to finish.
10) Wear a Heavenly Scent Not everyone likes to wear perfume, but this tip is for girls who do. Choose a light scent that you know works on you - tonight is not the time to try something new. You should also avoid anything heavy or strong-smelling - you want your date to come closer! Try a flirty but delicate fragrance like Love's Baby Soft, Clinique Happy or Vanilla Fields. Apply sparingly by spraying the air in front of you and walking through the mist. If you're wearing a skirt, you could also spritz a little behind your knees.
11) Let Your Hair Down Let down your hair from the buns. Gently remove bobby pins and unravel each bun one by one, separating each section with your fingers. Shake out your hair and finger-style it to get a flirty, tousled and wavy effect. (Don't brush, it will only cause frizz). Avoid adding any more products to hair at this point. If you want to smooth a section, add a little bit of water and use fingers to style. Voila, you look fabulous!!!
1. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing pound puppy underwear and a superman cape.
2. It is strong enough, however, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 by 20 foot room.
3. When you hear the toilet flush and the words, "Uh-oh," it's already too late.
4. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
5. A six year old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36 year old man says they can only do it in the movies.
6. If you use a waterbed as home plate while wearing baseball shoes it does not leak - it explodes.
7. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq foot house 4 inches deep.
8. Some things will pass through the digestive tract of a four year old that you'd imagine would remain in him or her.
9. Super glue is forever.
10. McGyver can teach us many things we don't want to know.
11. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.
12. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
13. VCR's do not eject peanut butter and jelly sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
14. Always look in the oven before you turn it on.
15. The fire department has at least a 5 minute response time.
16. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy.
17. It will however make cats dizzy.
18. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
