Holland Roden plays Lydia Martin on the hit MTV show, Teen Wolf. Lydia is the popular girl at school that manages to not only maintain good grades, but fresh and up-to-date hair and makeup as well. In every episode, her character manages to change it up, whether her hair is straight or up in a top-knot bun, or if her makeup is natural or dramatic. Either situation, she pulls it off every time!
In this tutorial, we will be explaining how to do a natural makeup look with a rosy finish. Then, you will learn how to do a braided headband with soft, loose curls to finish.
Makeup Directions:
1. Begin with a clean and moisturized face and lips, as usual. Lydia's face appears to be flawless and to achieve that look, you don't need old makeup clogging your pores and making you break out.
2. After washing your hands, grab a makeup sponge and Maybelline's Dream Fresh BB Cream. BB Creams will not only give you the appropriate coverage that you need, but it will supply your skin with nutrients throughout the day that will block the sun and prevent wrinkles from forming. With the sponge, dot the makeup on your forehead, cheeks, nose, chin, and neck. Then, begin blending out the product outwards towards your hairline. For a flawless finish, dab the sponge over your skin repeatedly.
3. For extra coverage, begin applying the Maybelline Fit Me Concealer under your eyes, the sides of your nose, and any other imperfections you may have. Be sure to focus mainly beneath your eyes because Lydia appears to be fully awake and she uses a bright concealer to get that.
4. With a fluffy Kabuki brush, begin applying Bare Minerals Mineral Veil all over your face lightly. This will prevent your complexion from being too shiny, but will maintain the natural glow you need.
5. With Benefit's High Beam highlighter, dot the product on your cheekbones and begin blending upwards towards your temple.
6. For blush, take Bobbi Brown's Shimmer Brick in the color Nectar and a fluffy blush brush. Smile and apply the product to the apples of your cheeks in a circular motion.
7. Groom your eyebrows with a spooly brush and prep them for brow powder. Lydia's eyebrows aren't bold, but are clearly filled in. So, with Anastasia's Brow Powder Duo and an angled brow brush, begin softly repeating strokes to fill in any bare spots.
8. Prime your eyelids with Urban Decay's Primer Potion.
9. Going into Urban Decay's Naked Palette and using the color "Sin" and a flat shader brush, pack the color onto your lid, avoiding the crease. This shimmery champagne color will provide you with the perfect highlight without overdoing it.
10. Taking a matte light brown color such as "Naked" from the Urban Decay Naked Palette and a fluffy crease brush, apply the color into your crease using windshield wiper motions. Then, in a circular motion, blend the color up and out for a softer look.
11. Lydia isn't wearing eyeliner in this look, but she is definitely wearing false eyelashes. So, with Lash Grip glue, apply a thin strip along Ardell 120 lashes. These lashes are long and thick, but look real and blend in well with your natural lashes.
12. Curl your lashes.
13. Apply one-to-two coats of Maybelline's Rocket Mascara in blackest black to blend your lashes together.
14. Taking a coral-pink matte lipstick such as NARS Niagara, apply the color over your lips as neatly as you can.
15. Finish off with Buxom's Full-On Lip Polish lip gloss in the color Bunny.
Hair Directions:
1. Begin this look as you should for any hairstyle,
and that is simply by brushing out your hair to get rid of all the knots and
tangles out.
2. Lydia is wearing her hair in big soft curls so
to achieve this simple yet messy look, start out with plugging in your curling
iron. I recommend using one that has a rather larger barrel to help you get the
big curls Lydia has.
3. While that is heating up, make sure you spray
your hair in a heat protectant. Continuously adding heat to your hair over
time, will damage your hair very severely, so make sure you keep it protected.
Brush through your hair one more time to evenly distribute the product, making
sure you cover root to tip.
4. Taking your curling iron and about a 2 1/2 inch section of hair, wrap the hair around the barrel of the curling iron, ignoring the clip. Hold for a couple seconds, depending on how long your hair is, and how well it holds a curl. Continue this around your whole head. Don't forget to alternate curling one curl away from your face, and the next towards your face. This will prevent the curls from all clumping together and looking like one giant curl.
5. Now to start with the detail of the hairstyle;
the braided headband. This hairstyle will only work if you have long hair, at
least a little past your shoulders. Take a section of hair from your roots,
behind your ear. Depending on how big you want your braided headband to be. The bigger the section, the thicker the braid will be. Braid the section of hair all the way down to the end, and secure off the ends with a small elastic.
6. If you want the headband to be big and full, take the braid and start pulling the strands out to make it a little messy a fuller. Do this all the way down the braid to make it all the same size. If you want the headband to be small and very tight, don't pull at the braid at all. Take the braid that starts behind your ear and bring it up and over the top of your head.
7. Taking a couple bobby pins, secure the end of the braid behind your other ear so you can't see the loose ends of the braid sticking out.
8. Brush out the curls with your fingers or gently with a brush to make them more relaxed curls. Also, if you have any bangs, pull a few strands out from under the headband to frame your face. This will also add the the messy effect that Lydia has in the picture, that you are trying to achieve.
9. A little hairspray will hold not only the braid, but the curls as well.
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