Star Beauty Secrets/Tips

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Thread to post beauty secrets/tips of your favorites ladies.

Can be models, actresses, singers, etc.

Make sure to add a link if there is one and to put the name of the model in the post, preferably at the top of the page. 

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Candice Swanepoel Loves Coconut Water, Cheap Lip Balm

 

The Victoria’s Secret Angel shares a page from her beauty notes.

by  Sue Williamson/Photography by Mario Sorrenti 

 

With the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show just three weeks away, the South African model Candice Swanepoel’s beauty routine is in full swing. Here, one of the “Perfect Ten” stars of W’s March 2014 issue discusses her day-to-day beauty and how she’s preparing for the show.

 

Your look: 

Natural, fresh, and healthy.

 

Daily routine:

Cleanse, tone, moisturize, and then add an eye cream at night. My facialist has her own products, so I’m not really gonna give that away… I have a really good natural face wash with green tea in it.

 

Beauty from the inside out:

That is the most important! I drink a lot of coconut water; I mix different things in my smoothie; I take fish oil… that kind of thing. And then just getting all the different food groups—all your veggies, fruits, carbohydrates.

 

Exercise regime:

I try and work out at least three times a week—boxing, resistance training—and then if I’m traveling I just try to do whatever I can in the hotel.

 

Beauty essentials: 

I cannot live without my lip balm, which is just regular Palmer’s; rose water for the airplane (I use it as my toner); and right now a really rich moisturizer because of the change of season.

 

Skincare secret:

There is no secret! Just know your skin—I’m really in tune with what it’s telling me. So depending on the season and where you’ve been, mix it up. Right now I’m using a really rich moisturizer, but in summer it’s a lot lighter.

 

Day to night look:

Add a red lip.

 

Manicure or pedicure:

Pedicure. I need my hands—I can’t sit still for long enough.

 

Pilates or yoga:

Pilates.

 

Best advice from the pros: 

Never sleep with your makeup on.

 

Necessary splurge: 

Lingerie!

 

Drugstore favorite:

Palmer’s lip balm.

 

Fragrance of choice: 

Bombshell by Victoria’s Secret.

 

Beauty icons: 

Marilyn Monroe, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Karen Mulder.

http://www.wmagazine.com/beauty/2014/11/candice-swanepoel-model-beauty/

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Exclusive! Taylor Hill on Becoming a Victoria’s Secret Model—and How to Get a Bombshell Body

 

APRIL 28, 2015 9:00 AM

by MACKENZIE WAGONER

 

If there was a sparkle in Taylor Hill’s eye as she walked the recent runways in Milan and Paris, it was because she had just received very good news—the 19-year-old Colorado native had been tapped for the latest generation of Victoria’s Secret Angels. When the official announcement finally hits the wires today, there will be little doubt that Hill is primed and ready to join the ranks of the best superbodies in the business. Her toned, six-foot frame is the result of years of competitive gymnastics and, now, a dedicated regimen of CrossFit and cross-training. But the all-American knockout—whose beachy waist-length hair, power brows, and pillowy lips are her bombshell signatures—also has a few studied beauty tricks up her sleeve. Here she discusses the secret to instant beach waves, her favorite drugstore beauty tricks, and the workout she swears by to get a “Candice Swanepoel butt.”

 

Congratulations on your new contract! You must be in very good shape to be tapped by Victoria’s Secret.

Well, before I was a model, I was a gymnast. I started at a young age—it gave me a good work ethic that translates to my workouts now. I like high intensity sessions that I can get done quickly, so I do CrossFit at a gym in L.A., and when I’m in New York, I just work out in the gym in my building, doing weight training. I don’t try to burn fat, I want to look toned and fit. For a Candice Swanepoel butt, I do weighted squats, or use ankle weights to do leg lifts on all fours. For my abs, I use a weighted ball and do twists for 20 reps. CrossFit is really intense, so I like to balance that training with yoga—it’s nice to have slow movements, where you can find inner peace.

 

Modeling can be tough on your skin. What do you use to take care of it?

To deal with acne caused by makeup, I use a special cleanser, Seraphim, which is basically like soap with salicylic and malic acid. It’s really light and doesn’t dry out my skin. At night, I wash with that and moisturize with coconut oil—it’s so hydrating. In the morning, every pimple I have is gone.

 

Do you wear makeup when you’re off duty?

When I do, I like Maybelline BB cream for a tint, rather than full-on foundation. The texture is really soft and it blends really nicely—it’s one of the best ones I’ve found. MAC makes a glowy, pink bronzer that I really like that gives you more of a sun-kissed glow than a dark tan. And I wear a bit of mascara. I like L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Million Lashes Mascara, because the brush is plastic and gives you a lot of separation—every lash gets a coat without clumping together. On my lips, I like this Clarins lip butter—it’s so thick it looks and feels like honey, but it gives a nice shiny gloss.

 

What about your evening look?

On my lips, I don’t like too strong of a color because you have to maintain it, so I wear a tint. Maybelline’s Baby Lips in red comes out as a barely-there, pinkish balm, and Burt’s Bees makes a purple shade that is my favorite. I’m really good at doing a cat eye. L’Oréal’s felt-tip pen works really well. I start at the center and draw a line out to the ends, going up slightly to make a little triangle, then I fill it in.

 

You have true bombshell hair. What’s your secret?

My mom does it! She cuts hair for everyone in my family. She’s been cutting it my whole life, so she knows my hair.

 

Any tricks to your beachy waves?

I have so much hair that it’s hard to style it, but I like my natural texture. Curly hair is naturally drier than straight hair, so shea butter leave-in conditioner gives me nice waves and takes out any frizz. When I want my hair to look better than it does, I switch shampoos. And I like to go and get a conditioning treatment, too. I only just learned how to give myself a blowout. After four years of paying attention backstage, I can now hold the blow-dryer against the brush and pull my hair out to make it straight.

 

What do you do when you have a big photo shoot coming up—do you have any tips for feeling extra confident?

I just eat really clean for three days before, drink a lot of water, and cut down on candy. I have such a sweet tooth, it’s insane! I love Swedish Fish.

http://www.vogue.com/13256872/taylor-hill-new-victorias-secret-angel-makeup-fitness-secrets/

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Newly Minted VS Angel Sara Sampaio Talks Snacks and Skincare

 

By snacks we mean popcorn and chips.

Last week it was announced that Sara Sampaio would be the newest Victoria’s Secret Angel, but we already knew how awesome she is. I mean, the girl digs Skittles, pancakes, and pizza…how could we not love her? Like any great foodie, though, this model is all about balance—that healthy medium between retox and detox. We plugged Sampaio for ab workouts (learn to do her favorite here), bikini-ready summer tips, and the beauty products she can’t live without.

 

From start to finish, what would be your ideal food day?

I would start my day with pancakes and a strawberry and banana milkshake. For lunch, I might eat a salad with chicken, and a midafternoon snack would be a banana or some cookies. For dinner, maybe a Margherita pizza.

 

How do you practice beauty from the inside out?

I try to work out twice a week. I don’t restrict myself from any food in my diet; I think it’s all about balance. I’m also very lucky with my genetics and metabolism. When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier.

 

What are your morning and nightly beauty routines? 

I’ve been dealing with a little acne due to stress this past year. So in the morning I wash my face with Orentreich face wash, then I put some serum from Luzern on to combat imperfections, and I finish with a moisturizer from Luzern as well. I try not to use makeup if I’m not working, but if I have a casting or a meeting, I’ll curl my lashes, put on mascara, cover any spots with Estée Lauder foundation, and apply some blush I have from Victoria’s Secret—but my favorite touch is an illuminizer I’m obsessed with from Jessica Hart’s new makeup line, Luma (and the highlighter is another favorite).

 

At night, I do the same process I did in the morning. First, I’ll use makeup remover to take off all my makeup—I like Crealine Water from Bioderma and Sephora Collection Waterproof Eye Makeup Remover. Then I wash my face and apply serum and moisturizer.

 

What beauty products are always in your bag? 

Lip balm. I must have, like, four different types of lip moisturizer in my bag!

 

What’s your diet and regimen 72 hours before a shoot? 

The same I have on a daily basis, but I might cut back on sweets like Skittles.

 

Some quick beauty/health tips for getting red-carpet or black-tie-event ready in three days? 

Definitely cut back as much as you can on sugar and salt—for me they cause breakouts. Also try to rest as much as possible, drink a lot of water, and moisturize a lot.

 

What are your go-to weeknight recipes? 

Since I’ve moved to New York I barely cook. I order in almost every night—I’m lazy and Seamless just makes me lazier.

 

Go-to healthy snacks on set… 

For me a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I’m on set.

 

Some quick bikini-ready summer tips… 

Get a workout partner; it’s easier to work out when you have company. And plank: The plank is the best ab exercise ever.

 

What are the best and worst foods/drinks for your skin? 

Water and Gatorade are the best for my skin, because they hydrate me—fruit and veggies as well. The worst are definitely Skittles, sugar, and salt, but I love them!

 

How to make the perfect smoothie… 

Use both bananas and strawberries—I love fruit, and this is my favorite combination.

 

What are your favorite cities for food? What restaurants do you go to in each? 

My hometown. I’m from Porto, Portugal, and it’s honestly my home. Home-cooked family meals are always the best. But my favorite restaurant is called Arquinho do Castelo in Leca da Palmeira, near Porto.

 

Advice to women looking in the mirror and getting dressed in the morning… 

Love yourself. Instead of focusing on something you dislike, repurpose that attention on the things you love about yourself. A positive thought in the morning changes the energy of your entire day.

http://www.vogue.com/13275966/sara-sampaio-victorias-secret/

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How Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington Doubled as Runway Makeup Artists

BY APRIL LONG

APR 9, 2015

Step backstage at virtually any major fashion show in 2015, and this is what you'll see: elbow-to-elbow hair and makeup artists enacting frantic transformations on late-to-arrive models; film crews jostling for space with photographers, manicurists, publicists, scoop-hungry journalists, and bloggers trying to procure an Instagrammable snapshot to fire off to their followers around the globe. It's as if the whole world—if not physically present then virtually so—is desperate for a VIP preview of the coral lip or the blue cat-eye, the wild bouffant or the modest ponytail, before it hits the runway. As Shiseido artistic director Dick Page puts it: "God forbid someone in Illinois should not know the trend by lunchtime!"

It was not always like this. There was a time, before designers discovered how lucrative it can be to partner with big beauty brands, when what happened off the runway was considered merely an inconsequential footnote to the main event. In a 1991 episode of MTV's House of Style, Cindy Crawford described the preshow scene as "about as glamorous as a supermarket sale," even as the images flickering on-screen—megastar models drinking champagne, smoking, whispering into cell phones the size of dachshunds, and gazing into compact mirrors while touching up their lipstick—belied her words.

 

"People were used to seeing the girls on the runway, so they didn't think the backstage was interesting, because it was real," says celebrated photographer Roxanne Lowit, who started shooting preshow prep in the 1970s (and who snapped the images on these pages). "People couldn't imagine why I wanted to be there, but I thought it was magical."

"There weren't as many people, and because there were fewer shows, it was a much more relaxed atmosphere," says London facialist Nichola Joss, who worked backstage as a manicurist in the early '90s. She remembers Kate Moss, "who has always loved doing her own nails," helping out with pedicures. "It was like girls getting ready together to go out. We would play cards or smoke cigarettes or have a glass of wine. It was less health and safety, more rock 'n' roll."

The beautification process was considerably more improvisational. Hair stylist Oribe—by his own admission, in a drug-fueled fit of inspiration—smeared models' faces with a shimmery pomade before sending them out on the runway at Cuban designer Manolo's show in 1993; Joss, who is now a skin expert for St. Tropez, says her early tanning technique involved mixing theater makeup with hairspray "and spraying it on the models' bodies using the kind of guns you'd use for painting cars."

Until the mid-'80s, models were often responsible for their own primping (in decades prior, they even provided their own shoes and accessories). Makeup pros, when present, weren't entirely in control. "They tried to give direction," says Stephanie Seymour, who debuted on the catwalk in 1985, "but no one listened."

Elle Macpherson remembers feeling daunted by the other girls' dexterity with brushes and wands: "We all had Henri Bendel brown-and-white striped makeup boxes, which was the cool thing to have," she says. "I sat around, trying to copy Linda Evangelista. She would just transform." Some of the techniques Macpherson picked up remain in her regimen today. "I hated doing lipstick because I could never get my lip line right, so I just focused on doing the eyes. I got quite good at doing a black smoky eye, and I still do the same makeup now. I use a soft black eyeliner and a Q-tip, smudge around the rims of my eyes, add mascara, and I'm done."

By the mid-'90s, things had changed. Talented hair and makeup pros—including François Nars, Kevyn Aucoin, Page, Mary Greenwell, Linda Cantello, and Oribe—gained megastar status, having risen alongside the supes they beautified. "The supermodels became the first generation to always have someone doing their makeup," Greenwell says. "We were in their glory, and the team became very important." So much so that the models would jostle for face (and hair) time with the top gun backstage.

"The girls used to fight over my chair," Nars says. "Linda used to run over and be the first to sit down. She didn't want anyone else on my team to do her makeup, just me." It was Nars who taught Evangelista, whom the other models revered as being a makeup maestro herself ("She saved my life more than once with her skills," Seymour says), how to do her brows, using a photo of Sophia Loren as a template.

"It really changed her face," Nars says, "and she became known for her bold eyebrows. She still uses the techniques I taught her, and she's very good."

 

If the lead makeup artist wasn't available, the models would take matters into their own hands rather than get made up by an assistant. Tatjana Patitz, whose first show was Azzedine Alaïa in Paris in 1984 and whose fame was cemented when she appeared in George Michael's "Freedom '90" video alongside Evangelista, Crawford, Christy Turlington, and Naomi Campbell, remembers: "You'd stand in line for the artist you wanted to work with, whether it was Stephane Marais or Dick Page, and if you got an assistant, you'd become a little snobby, like, 'That person's not going to do the foundation right.' We didn't want to risk it, so we'd just do it ourselves."Claudia Schiffer, who recently launched her own hair care line, Essence Ultime, with Schwarzkopf, also intervened with her strands. "I often asked the hairdresser to amend my hairstyle to what suited me better," she says. "Unless it was Oribe or Serge Normant, who I trusted blindly." A pro tip she still uses? "For long-lasting volume, I backcomb at the roots, then flatiron what I teased."

"When I started doing shows that Linda, Christy, and Naomi were in, I realized they were just used to doing it themselves," Page says. "And why wouldn't they? They were there because they looked like that. So Linda always wanted to do her little thing, and Naomi would want to do the whole thing—or she'd let you do it and then want to do it all over again. It was like a ritual."At today's fast-moving fashion weeks—when hair and makeup are decided upon in advance of the shows and precise face charts are distributed to armies of talented artists who follow them to a T, using specific shades—you're unlikely to see a model so much as touch up her own lipstick.

"Today, it's important for the models to look very uniform with their makeup," Nars says. There may be less room for last-minute improvisation, but having such visionary pros at the helm opens the door to more wildly inspiring moments—think of the vivid green-and-blue crescent-moon eyeliner Page painted on models' lids at Michael Kors for spring 2013, or the gold brows Pat McGrath created at Dior for spring 2014—than could be achieved in the past. Most of all, it means that runway beauty has gotten more democratic. Now it's easy to find out precisely which products, shades, and tools were used at any given show, and exactly how they were applied. Rather than guessing what brow pencil Evangelista might have had in her personal kit, we can know for sure—and make the look our own.

 

http://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/news/a27717/role-models/

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For this edition of ‘My Beauty Routine’, Victoria’s Secret‘s newest angel, Stella Maxwell (Miley’s buddy) shares her beauty routine exclusively with myfashdiary readers.

-what are 5 of your favorite beauty products? 

My five favorite beauty products are  oribe shampoo, ysl touche eclat concealer, le labo perfume&moisturizer, neutrogena makeup wipes, bioderma.

-what beauty products do you always carry in your handbag? 

I always carry some chanel lip stick , some Kose skin cream, the new Victoria Secret Body Care collection and some neutrogena skin wipes.

-what is your skincare regimen? 

I find that drinking a lot of water is really the most amazing thing you can do for the skin. For the body I love the Coconut Milk Victoria’s Secret Weightless Body Oil.

-how do you keep fit?

I love riding bikes and swimming. Those are probably my two favorite forms of exercise but I do train a lot in the gym and I cant say enough about having a great trainer.

-what is your fitness routine?

My fitness routine consists of a lot of cardio and a lot of stretching.

-Do you follow a diet? 

I wouldn’t say I have a strict diet but I do try and stay away from things that are not natural and that really don’t give any good nutrients to my body. There are so many processed foods and so many unecesarry things we are constantly  encouraged to consume. Key is to keep your focus on what your body really needs.

-do you take vitamin supplements, if so – which?

I do take some vitamin B occasionally but I am not huge into supplements. I find that what i eat and drink really work well with my body.

-do you do regular beauty services?

I enjoy going to Russian Baths and Koreans spas.

-what is your signature fragrance? 

My signature fragrance is Victoria Secret Tease.

http://myfashdiary.com/2015/10/my-beauty-routine-by-vs-angel-stella-maxwell/