To make your nails or hands look somewhat manicured in a flash, quickly detail your cuticles (push them back with a metal cuticle pusher) and use cuticle oil to massage around the cuticle. This will immediately help your nails look, um, polished, even if they're sans polish. -- Theresa Stanley, OPI guest artist, backstage at the Rebecca Taylor show
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Quickly define eyes
When you don't have time to fuss with much makeup, line your upper inner rims with black or brown liner -- this will quickly define your eyes -- how? Well, when you blink, it will transfer to your lower inner rims, but won't ever transfer outside of your eyes (where you don't want your liner). So you'll get subtle definition without fuss. -- Nadine Luke, MAC senior artist, backstage at Timo Weiland
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Make a slick look your go-to
A sleek style, like a ponytail or bun, is easy to create in minutes. But controlling frizzies on a slick style isn't always easy. To get a perfect finish every time, use "a boar bristle toothbrush from Whole Foods or any kind of natural foods store � you spray your brush with hairspray and then you start cleaning up all of your edges." -- Orlando Pita for Moroccanoil backstage at the Carolina Herrera show
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Easily brighten up your look
If you want to change up your look quickly, the easiest way is to add color, but if you normally shy away from colorful hues, experiment by "invest[ing] in a really trustworthy pencil eyeliner in a fun color like amethyst or emerald � Line your top and bottom lash line and take a little tiny brush and blend it out, so that it looks like a diffused line, which also translates into a shadow. This will transition you into wearing color without having to commit to a whole palette of pastels," says Sarah Lucero, Stila Pro Artist for Beauty.com backstage at the Whitney Eve show.
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Reach for bronzer
When you literally have 30 seconds to apply your makeup, bronzer should be your one key item. You can add color to your skin very quickly and easily with bronzing powder and even swipe it on your eyes to complete your look. -- Luc Buchard, MAC senior artist backstage at the Tadashi Shoji show
We just got back from New York Fashion Week where we got major hair and makeup scoop while backstage at fashion shows including: Timo Weiland, Kaelen, Vena Cava, Derek Lam, Peter Som, United Bamboo, Alexander Wang, Rebecca Taylor, Carolina Herrera, Tadashi Shoji, Carmen Marc Valvo and Tracy Reese (to name a few). Phew, what a whirlwind. It's tiring just writing it, but it was even more exhausting living it. Fashion week is truly a fashion and beauty marathon (we have plenty of blisters to prove it).
While backstage, we elbowed our way to the model's hair and makeup chairs to pick the brains of the many talented makeup artists and hairstylists who know (and likely create) all the trends we all end up following. And they also know how to make models look fantastic in a pinch (even at 6:30 am) because they sometimes literally have to get 'em runway-ready in minutes (and no, we're not exaggerating). And since we real women need to be out-the-house-ready in minutes too -- like everyday -- we got makeup artists: Napoleon Perdis, Tom Pecheux, Dick Page, Nadine Luke, Sarah Lucero, Luc Buchard, Mally Roncal and Romero Jennings; hairstylists Leonardo Manetti, Ted Gibson, Mara Roszak, Guido Paulo and Orlando Pita; and nail pros Jin Soon and Theresa Stanley to spill on their hair and makeup shortcuts.
Thanks to them, you'll learn timesaving beauty tips like:
� how to cut down on flat ironing time
� how to fix eyeliner mistakes quickly
� how to create a wavy texture in minutes
� how to make your nails presentable in a snap
� how to easily define your eyes
� how to create a perfect sleek hair style in a jiffy
� how to snaz up your look quick with colored eyeliner
� how to use bronzer to create a total makeup look
� how to create an updo in no time
