That 80’s Make Up and Hair

It is no secret that the 80s fash­ion was def­i­nitely an era of loud cloth­ing, 80s hair and make up was over the top. Madonna and Cyndi Lau­per kicked off the main­stream looks of the decade and thou­sands of girls every­where were fran­ti­cally try­ing to look and dress the same. Time has indeed moved on since then and fash­ions have changed a lot, but what if you want to recre­ate that look? Here we detail all the essen­tial steps you need to get look­ing authen­ti­cally 80s:

80’s Hair and MakeUp

1.) Firstly, to start off the 80s makeup look, you need to gather all of your tools of the trade. You will need some eye­liner (prefer­ably black, although other col­ors work too), it’s up to your taste entirely, eye shadow (prefer­ably either a very bright colour or a very dark color as these will give the best effect), mas­cara, liq­uid foun­da­tion, pow­der, eye­lash curler, makeup brushes and of course — lip gloss.

2.) Now you need to wash your face so that it is clean. Use a mild cleanser for this and make sure that your face is prop­erly clean using warm water. Next, please ensure that your face is fully dry before apply­ing the 80s makeup, it just won’t work doing it on a damp/wet face.

3.) Next, cover up any blem­ishes (such as under-eye cir­cles and other dark spots) using the liq­uid foun­da­tion. What­ever you do, don’t try and cover up and spots and pim­ples by cak­ing the foun­da­tion on them, this will look silly. For best results, apply the makeup with a proper makeup sponge. Using the cheap one that comes with the makeup or your fin­gers will not look as good.

4.) Take your 80s makeup brush, and apply pow­der all over your face. Try and make sure that you get a good even fin­ish and that it is blended in properly.

5.) Now, using the eye­liner color of your choice, apply some eye­liner to your top and bot­tom eye­lids and also to the area of skin directly beneath your eyes. Make sure that you put on a sig­nif­i­cant amount — because you now need to smear it. Using your fin­gers, gen­tly smear the makeup to give that great 80s look. One good tip you can use to stop it drip­ping is to brush some black eye shadow over the liner, it works a treat.

6.) Using the eye­lash curler, curl your eye­lashes upwards until they stay up by them­selves. Then use the mas­cara to brush it onto the lashes, slowly and going up until you achieve that great strik­ing 80s makeup look.

7.) The eye shadow can be applied as you would nat­u­rally; it’s up to you how you do it as you will have your own pref­er­ences on how you go about it. Although make sure that it at least comes up to your brow line for max­i­mum effect.

8.) Go ahead and fin­ish the look off by apply­ing the lip gloss, prefer­ably it will be the glit­tery, frosted type that will really fin­ish the whole look off nicely.

9.) Go wild with your hair­spray and tease your hair until it looks as you want it. Then, your 80’s make up and hair is complete.