Brunette Ambition (24 page)

BUSINESS MEETING

SIDE PART, STRAIGHT

1.
Divide hair into a top and bottom section. Secure the top, and take a dime-size amount of anti-frizz serum in your hands, rub together, and then evenly distribute. Repeat with top section. Don’t apply any other products if you want your hair to last as long as possible.

2.
Blow-dry hair roughly; when hair is 90 percent dry use a round brush while blow-drying to smooth it out.

3.
Take two-inch sections of hair and slowly move a comb through the strands immediately in front of a flat iron. While the tendency is to try to straight-iron bigger sections to save time, this will actually cause damage. When you work with sections that are too large, you have to move the iron through your hair many times, frying the hairs on the outer edge in the process (and failing to get to the hairs in the middle). Instead, you’ll want to move the iron through each two-inch section twice, max. While using smaller sections may seem like it would take longer, it’s just as fast since you don’t have to cover the same ground repeatedly.

4.
Take a natural-bristle toothbrush, spritz it with hair spray, and smooth any flyaways.

DINNER WITH THE GIRLS

FUN LIP + SIMPLE EYE

1.
Fill the entire lip with a bright pink lip pencil.

2.
Apply an intensely pigmented lip lacquer. A bright lip needs to be super-precise so that it doesn’t look sloppy, so dip a Q-tip in makeup remover and tidy up the edges. Finally, take a little brush and some face powder and carefully set the edge of the lip.

3.
Take a powder brush and apply a powder illuminizer all over your face to give it a glow—pick a light pink or peach shade with a little shimmer.

4.
Apply two coats of mascara, wiggling the wand from the base of the lashes up.

DINNER WITH THE GIRLS

HIGH BUN

1.
Gather your hair at the crown of your head (not the top), and secure it in a ponytail with a very tight elastic. Spritz a paddle brush with working-or flexible-hold hair spray and smooth the hair up to the elastic, ensuring that it lies nice and flat.

2.
Braid the ponytail and secure it with a second elastic.

3.
Take your thumb and place it on the top of your head in front of the ponytail. Wrap the braid over the top of your thumb (toward your face), and then wrap under and tuck the end in.