You've probably been seeing a lot of this face lately. If you haven't been seeing her, you've probably been hearing the incredible, unique voice.The artist of the number one album, Yours Truly, who just recently won the People's Choice Award for Breakout Artist of the Year was on the cover of Teen Vogue this month. Ariana Grande is seen in the spread with a retro themed hair, makeup, and outfit look that will get you ready for Valentine's Day with her natural waves and pink lips!Makeup Directions:
1. Ariana's face is nearly flawless in the entire magazine. This isn't necessarily a direction, but a tip: drink a lot of water daily. Clear skin is easy to achieve when it's hydrated, and by drinking half of your body weight in ounces, it can stay clean and hydrated.
2. Clean your skin. Starting with a clean canvas is essential when doing any makeup look at all.
3. Moisturize. Although all of the water you have been drinking will hydrate your skin, it can't do it all on its own. Apply some type of lip balm to your lips as well. This will prep for the lip stain you will be applying later on. (EOS in Sweet Mint is the best.)
4. Prime your skin using Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer. You'll only need a small amount so with the product on the tips of your fingers, dot it on your forehead, cheeks, chin, nose, and the rest on your neck. Blend it out.
5. For foundation, use Neutrogena Healthy Skin Liquid Makeup. This foundation gives a great amount of coverage without looking too cakey. With a dampened makeup sponge, apply the product to your cheeks, forehead, chin, nose, and neck, then begin to blend the product outwards. Switch up your bending techniques by dabbing the product into your skin for a more airbrushed finish.
6. For the next step, use Hard Candy's Glamoflauge Concealer. This concealer is heavy duty and will cover up the toughest of blemishes. Pat the product beneath your eyes, down the center of your nose, on the sides of your nose, and on any imperfections you may have. Blend out using your ring finger.
7. Ariana's eyebrows are extremely bold and angular, so begin by grooming them properly with tweezers. Pluck beneath the brow (not above) and in the center. This will clean up any sparse, unwanted hairs you may have.
8. Brush out your eyebrows using a spooly brush.
9. With the Anastasia Brow Duo, choose the color that is closest to your hair color on an angled brow brush. (If you're feeling extra daring, go for a shade darker.) Start creating small strokes to fill in the bare spots on your eyebrows, focusing the color more towards the outside of your brow.
10. Set the eyebrow powder with a clear brow gel.
11. Prime your eyelids using Urban Decay Primer Potion.
12. Ariana's eyeshadow appears to be matte so with Urban Decay's Naked Palette in the shade Buck, take a flat shader brush and apply it all over the lids and into the crease. Then, take the color down beneath your lashline.
13. With a fluffy blending brush, blend the color out using circular motions.
14. Next, flip your brush over and pack the matte light brown shadow known as Naked onto it. Then, lightly bring that into the space between your crease and brow bone. This will make the red-tones of Buck softer and make the look appear more natural.
15. With a small brush, apply a light champagne color (such as Virgin) onto your brow bone and in the inner corner of your eye, blending the product out to avoid any harsh lines.
16. Ariana is not wearing any liner in this look, so you should jump straight to mascara. Taking the Covergirl Flamed Out mascara in Very Black Blaze, apply two to three coats to your top lashes. Focus the brush mainly towards the outer corners of your eyes to create the whispy lash look that Ariana has. Apply only one coat on your bottom lashes.
17. With an angled sculpting brush, apply a matte bronzer such as NARS Laguna Bronzer to the hollows of your cheeks and to your hairline. Ariana's face is dramatically contoured which is why her cheekbones appear to be so highlighted.
18. Finally, apply the Revlon Just Bitten lip stain in the color Desire to your lips. It's the perfect shade of pink for nearly anyone and will make you look just as flawless as Ariana!
Hair Directions:
1. Ariana's hair style in this photo shoot was very retro themed and inspired. First to achieve this look start out with your hair fully brushed out and down. Since you will be teasing your hair for this look, your hair will tease better if you don't wash it the same day that you plan on doing this hairstyle. I recommend washing your hair the night before so your hair has some of its natural oils still in it.
2. After you brush through your hair, spray it with a heat protectant since we will be curling the hair. Brush through the hair again to make sure the product is evenly distributed throughout all the hair.
3. A curling wand will allow you to achieve more of a wave to your hair than an actual curl. Using a Remmington curling wand begin taking about 2 inch sections of hair and wrap it around the curling wand, the bigger the section of hair, the bigger the curl. Since Ariana's hair is extremely loose curls, you can take big sections of hair, and you don't have to hold them for very long.
4. Continue curling until all your hair is done. Taking a comb, or even just your fingers, brush through the curls to make then less defined.
5. Finally spray the curls with hair spray to make sure the waves last all day long.
6. Big hair is very retro so to achieve this look we will be doing a lot of teasing.
7. Gathering 1 to 2 inch sections of hair at the crown of your head, take a very strong hair spray and apply it to the roots of that hair. Taking a teasing brush, brush the section of hair that was sprayed, so it gains volume.
8. Continue doing this until you get the desired amount of volume on the top of your head.
9. Take a comb and gently comb over the top of what you just teased so it lays smooth and without too many frizzies.
10. Gather half of your hair, including what you just teased, and pull it back behind your head into a pony tail, or secure it with a coupe bobby pins.
11. To complete the look, take the end of the comb, or your fingers and gently pull at the hair you just put up into a pony tail. Making the hairstyle look a little messy is perfectly fine! Don't forget one last spritz of hairspray to hold the hairstyle.
12. To finish off the look, Ariana is wearing a head scarf as a head band. If you choose to do this, any piece of fabric that is ling enough will work just fine. You can tie it in a bow on the top/side of your head, or in a simple knot. Any color or pattern will do, to complete this retro hairstyle that will have you feeling just like Ariana!
