Ciara may be an otherworldly beauty with a career in the stratosphere, but in at least one respect, she’s just like any other woman: She often has to squeeze in a quick touch-up between a full-throttle workday and a big night out. Which is why the pop star, new global ambassador of Revlon, and, as announced this morning, expecting mom, has invited us to her suite at the Standard, High Line en route to a party—after a series of back-to-back business meetings—to demonstrate her favorite tips for an end-of-day beauty reboot. After all, working frequently with glam squads has its benefits: “I’ve been studying my thing”—hair and makeup techniques, that is—“for years,” she says. “I’m a five-to-10-minute get-myself-together kind of girl.”
First things first: “I need some music to get me in the mood!” Ciara says, cuing Bruno Mars on her iPhone and leading the Vogue crew in an impromptu dance party. Then it’s on to her eyebrows, which she pencils in and brushes diligently. “Once you have them in place, you’re like 24 karat gold,” she quips in a nod to the song. Next come under-eye highlighter—“it makes your eyes pop out more”—and a three-step lip: Her son’s Aquaphor ointment, followed by a dark neutral lipstick and Revlon’s Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor in Seduction to “lift the color and keep your lips full.” Bronzer brushed across the T-zone and around the perimeter of the face is “another key to giving dimension,” as is a coat of mascara on both the top and bottom lashes. (Just “don’t look down so fast,” she warns, or you’ll smudge it.)
The finishing touch: those lavish ombré waves. Ciara preps them with a soft-bristle brush before curling haphazardly with a flat iron at different angles for a result she calls “a bit more rock ’n’ roll.” “Sometimes it’s better when you’re trying not to be a perfectionist,” she says. “Find your thing and make it work for you!”
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