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ired canvases: Five graphic finger trends to try this season Neutral Tone Though bright colors can be tempting for spring, neutral tones are the ones that make your nails shine. By coating nails with one or two layers of light, neutral colors like transparent pink or light beige, nails look naturally glossy and polished. Natural but also edgy and stylish, neutral tones were greatly popular on summer and spring runways as well. This nail can be done by any nail salon or even at home. Caviar Manicure For a more edgy and chic look, try Ciate’s newest nail kit, Caviar Manicure. This kit comes with a nail polish and pearls, creating a three-dimensional finish. First, apply two coats of the nail polish. Then, simply sprinkle Caviar pearls over the painted nails. From rainbow to black pearls, there are varieties of color choices you can choose from. This kit is sold online at sephora.com and will be offered in all Sephora stores in May.
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The Caviar Manicure kit provides nail polish and pearls for a 3-D look.
Magnetic After applying nail polish, use the magnet that comes with the polish to design a quirky set of nails. Using the magnet, add dimension, change color and create art. China glaze’s Magnetix Collection comes with a magnet that has three different designs. Crystal Nails, located at 110 MacDougal St., also provides this service as well. Ombre Another popular nail on the spring runway, ombre is a graduated monochromatic look on your nails, starting with the darkest to the lightest hue of one color. This look is not impossible but very difficult to do at home for the beginners. Stop by Marie Nails, located at 155 Prince St., to try this cool look. Clara Yang is a staff writer. Email her at bstyle@nyunews.com.
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Ombre styled nails are painted with graduated monochromatic colors.
SCPS freshman shares makeup tips, skincare advice By Keerthi Harishankar
Bringing you the best fashion tips, street beauty shares the beauty routines of students around campus. This week highlights SCPS freshman Larissa Horn. Question: What is your skincare regimen? Answer: Before I go to sleep, I wash my face with some classic Noxzema, like the stuff my mom used to use when she was in high school. And I make sure I wash off all of my eye makeup with cucumbers wipes, and then I use Neutrogena moisturizer. I make sure not to use the oily kind. In the morning, I put lotion on that has sunscreen in it since I’m an extremely pale girl and I freckle easily. Q: Any makeup tips or tricks? A: One of my best tips for eyelashes, which I actually got from “The Tyra Banks Show,” is to dip the mascara in the bottle, and you know that gunk that gets on the tip of the brush? You take that and you paint it on your eyelashes with the tip of the brush and you use the bristles to like wipe off the chunks of it, and it works. My eyelashes look so much longer because of it. Also I used to pull my eyes sideways to tighten my skin to apply eyeliner, but I saw online that [it] causes wrinkles, and I’m thinking ahead so I stopped doing that. Q: Does your makeup routine change at all for summer? A: I wear so much more sunscreen in summer, and I think I wear less makeup because it melts off easier, especially the eye shadow. At the end of a hot day I usually get creases in my eye shadow. When I go less on the eye shadow I do bolder eyeliner, usually thicker and the cat eye at the end might go out farther. Q: Any summer makeup trends you want to try out? A: I really want to try bright pink lipstick, like Nicki Minaj. Like a bright, pastel pink to match my hair. I don’t know how I’d wear it, but I definitely want to find a time and place for that. Q: Do you follow any makeup blogs? A: A lot of the makeup tips I know come from makeup tutorials I see online or on TV. I learned how to do my eyebrows online from the blog The Hairpin. The Hairpin has all different types of posts, but there’s this one writer, Jane Marie, and she does a segment called How To Be a Girl, and it’s really funny. Her videos are so cute. She does makeovers sometimes and makeup from different eras. And she gives you makeup tips for the silly girl who doesn’t really know how to do it, like simple stuff, but it’s nice to have a refresher sometimes. Keerthi Harishankar for WSN
Larissa Horn follows makeup blog The Hairpin that provides various beauty tips to its readers.
Keerthi Harishankar is a staff writer. Email her at bstyle@nyunews.com.