Olson applies a bit of shine spray to Beth's damp hair before blowing it dry in sections. The slightest bend to her ends adds to the polished look, which Olson achieved with a round brush and blow dryer. To keep the bangs swept to the side, a spritz of light-hold hairspray was used. It's an easy-to-do style that takes away the necessity of the flat iron from Beth's daily routine, which will save her loads of further damage.
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The brows
Beth's brows were good shape-wise, Hollier says -- not over-tweezed, and with a good arch (see the eyebrow mistakes you might be making). So it just took some light trimming to get them ready for prime time.
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The makeup
"Some people think that with deep-set eyes, you can't do a smoky eye," says Uslan. "That's not the case." Instead, she says, swap deep charcoals for a lighter hue -- such as silvery grays -- and the look can really work.
Uslan started by applying Kevyn Aucoin Beauty Liquid Airbrush Foundation, $45 to Beth's face, using a foundation brush, then applied Paul & Joe Beaute Stick Concealer, $24.80 under her eyes to even out the coloring. To set the concealer, she took a shadow brush dipped in just a trace of translucent powder, and dusted it from the outer corners of her eyes inward, toward the nose -- a trick that keeps the powder from drawing attention to fine lines. Next she brushed Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Cream Eye Shadow in Galaxy, $22 along Beth's upper lash line with a smudge brush, followed by a mid-brown shadow for smokiness blended at the outer corners. A touch of highlight just under the brow bones all added up to a subtle smoky eye look for deep-set eyes.
Finally, red lipstick (try Lipstick Queen Wine Sinner Matte Lipstick, $18) was applied to highlight Beth's smile. "Usually you choose just one -- the eye or the lip -- to play up," says Uslan. "But when you do a light smoky eye like this, doing both works."
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Beth after
"Now this is the color my hair is supposed to be," says Beth. "It looks so healthy and shiny, and I like that highlights show through." As for the length? "It feels like a weight off -- five inches gone, and yet it still feels long enough to have styling options. Before the makeover, I wore my hair in a ponytail pretty much every day -- I can tell I won't need to do that any more."
With a demanding work life, and an even more demanding 2-year-old at home, Beth needed a cut and color that would help her look more polished and put-together -- without taking a ton of time. So we called in our team of experts at the Warren-Tricomi salon in Los Angeles, Calif., which includes hairstylists Whitney Olson and Reanna Garcia, colorists Jherra Moreno and Ashleigh Childers, and celebrity makeup artists and co-founders of the Luxe Beauty Team Sarah Uslan and Amy Hollier. Let's see what they did to turn back the clock for Beth.
