How To Model Your Makeup After Your Dream Career, According To TikTok
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The beauty of makeup is that it allows a person to become whoever they want to be. While subtler makeup approaches are great for hiding your insecurities and drawing attention to your favorite features — like using highlighter to emphasize your Cupid's bow — you can also use makeup to create a whole new persona, at least for one night.
Understanding the power of makeup, TikTok users are now demonstrating how to embody your dream career role with just a few key makeup products. It may take years of hard work to reach the heights of a lawyer or pilot, but you can at least look the part by following the guidelines of TikTokers who know exactly how to nail the perfect makeup style for the job. Whether their insider knowledge comes from really working in the industry or a mastery of makeup in general, these guides can help you feel like anything from a ballerina to a bartender.
Lawyer with a court date
A lawyer will likely make frequent visits to the courtroom, so a conservative and respectful makeup look is key for channeling this profession. Achieve glowing, dewy skin with moisturizer and foundation, and then use concealer and a small amount of contour to highlight the contrast between the natural shadows on the face. Apply soft, neutral eyeshadow, and you can also line the eyes with a shadow rather than a harsh eyeliner, finishing with a little black mascara. The winner here is blush in the apples of the cheeks and the nose, and go for a lip that is neutral in color but still glossy.
Grungy cool tattoo artist
We all want to be the ultra-cool tattoo artist who nails a grungy look. TikTok user Anna Annora shows viewers how by creating a smooth base with concealer and brightening the under-eye area with pink powder. She contours her cheekbones, nose, and under her lip with gray powder, then applies blush, later adding brown eyeshadow to her lids. Then she applies black eyeliner, which she smudges with her finger, and black mascara. To set this look apart, trace over beauty marks with a freckle pen and apply lip stain to the center of your lips, topping with darker liner and lip balm.
Pretty in pink ballerina
You can embrace balletcore with a sleek bun, but ballerina makeup is more fun. As TikTok user Abelyn explains, get "glass-like skin" with a highlighter like Giorgio Armani's Fluid Sheer Glow Enhancer before applying foundation and creating definition with contour cream and concealer. This look gives glowing pink, so go in liberally with pink powder and cream blush, and pink-toned highlighter and setting powder on the cheeks through to the brows. Layer on pink and champagne glittery eyeshadow, draw a sharp brown wing with liner, add black mascara, and then finish with more highlighter and a glossy dark-pink lip.
Smokey eye bartender
When creating bartender makeup, the star of the show is a sultry smokey eye. Begin by creating an even base with a generous layer of foundation and concealer. Chisel those cheekbones with a cream contour and blend everything together. Go in with a reddish-brown eyeshadow and line your inner lids with eye pencil. Then apply a line of black shadow just under your bottom lash line, and just over your top lash line, before blending out with a brush. Finish with a mascara and a soft pink lip, and a spot of highlighter on your nose.
Rockstar glam
Who doesn't want to be a rockstar for a day? As TikToker Gaby Medina shows us, all you need to begin is a light contour and some blush on the cheeks. Conceal and bake the under-eye area while you brush out your brows to make them fluffy. A dramatic wing is non-negotiable, so apply with the tape method if you don't have a steady hand. Smudge the wing out as you reach the top of the eyelid, and blend with gray eyeshadow. Go in with mascara on the top and bottom lashes. Create rockstar lips with pink liner and lipstick, and don't forget the attitude!
Picture-perfect air hostess
Training to become an air hostess is rigorous, but following Emirates cabin crew member Donjeta Bekteshi's tutorial is easy. After a standard foundation and under-eye concealer application, go in with cream contour on the cheeks, nose, and forehead, topping up that definition with bronzer. Not a hair can be out of place for this look, so next apply brow gel. Add brown eyeshadow to the eye creases, shimmery shadow to the lids, and a sharp liquid liner wing. Blush and highlight the cheeks, then finish with a bold red lip using something along the lines of MAC Retro Matte Ruby Woo.
Soft and subtle pilot
Most pilots don't have the brain space to worry about a complex makeup look, so simple and fresh is the goal here. Los Angeles-based pilot and TikTok user @sheeeeeenz begins by highlighting her face with liquid concealer, concentrating on the under-eye area and nose. Then she goes in with a pink powder blush on her cheeks and just a little gel on her brows. The only other things you need are a spot of highlighter on the tip of the nose and a swipe of neutral-pink lip balm, and you're ready to take to the skies.
Supermodel vibes
Embracing the supermodel look is all about rocking styles that regular people are too afraid to attempt, like bold and graphic cut-crease eyeliner. Create an airbrushed-looking base with liquid foundation and under-eye concealer, then carve out Bella Hadid cheeks with a cream contour. After applying a glowy blush, draw on a reverse wing and cut crease with black or brown eyeshadow and a flat eyeshadow brush, then fill in the negative space with concealer and a shimmery eyeshadow. Incorporate white liner just below the wing in the eye's outer corner, and finish with mascara on the outer lashes only. Slay.