If you are fair with yellow undertones, look for a palette of colors that you swirl together. A combination of peach, apricot and bronze shades will warm up your complexion without overpowering it. Apply it to your forehead, nose, cheekbones and chin.
If you are fair with pink undertones, use both bronzer and blush to get the most natural look. Dust the bronzer over your forehead, nose, and cheeks first, then sweep the bright pink blush just on the apples of your cheeks.
If you have olive to dark skin, you can pull off deeper hues like terra-cotton and copper. Just apply it where the sun naturally hits. When dusted on cheekbones a shimmery bronzer acts as a highlighter on African-American skin.
3. Self-Tan in a Tiny Bikini
Tan lines are so sexy, but sun damage isn’t. Get them without soaking up the sun by applying a self-tanner, while you’re wearing a skimpy bikini bottom, making sure to coat only the exposed skin. The “tan lines” will look oh so hot when your swimwear comes off. Use a spray formula and an old pair of bottoms you don’t mind messing up.
4. Show Off Your Nape
Wearing your hair up in a ponytail or bun is a given during the summer months, so take advantage and draw attention to the nape of your neck—a spot that guys find alluring. To do: Dust a loose shimmer powder over the area, then let a few pieces fall from the front to frame your face.
5. Wax Without Wincing
News flash: You can ditch the cringe factor that comes with bikini waxing by using a cream or spray that contains benzocaine before you let it rip. This superhero OTC ingredient will temporarily squash soreness and pain. Just be sure to follow the directions.
6. Smooth Your Feet
Slough your heels with this DIY lemon sugar scrub. Mix 1/2 cup of brown sugar with 1/8 cup of olive oil and add a few squirts of a lemon, which has antiseptic benefits to make your tootsies feel extra fresh. Post exfoliating, dip your feet in a big bowl of cold milk. The lactic acid is great for softening. Finish by slathering on a thick hydrating foot cream.
7. Score Surfer-Girl Strands
Babes who board always have the best tousled tresses. To get the look, mist damp locks with a texturizer, then twirl 1-inch sections of hair around your finger and secure the sections with bobby pins. Blow dry your ‘do before removing the pins.
8. Make Your Liner Last
Swimming and sweating don’t have to be the demise of your eye makeup. Use a waterproof liner to enhance them without smears.
9.Cop a Cool Crop
If you have short hair and want it to look super sassy, like Rihanna, try this trick: Flip your head upside down, and use your fingers to style—you’ll get a sexily messy effect that’s full of vampy volume.
10. Gleam Up Your Bod
Mix a 1/2 teaspoon of glimmer powder with your body lotion during the day for a subtle glow, then double the dose at night for a sultrier look.
11 Enhance Your Tress Tint
Max out your hair color or get hotter highlights without damaging your do or using permanent dye. Here’s how: Try at an at home clear gloss or color enhancing shampoo. It will kick up your color a notch without harming your hair.
12. Lighten Up Your Scent
This hot-weather season calls for a new beach inspired fragrance. Look for an aroma with fresh, summery notes like zesty citrus fruits, exotic flowers, and juicy berries. Instead of spraying it on your pulse points, try spraying some behind your neck if you’re sporting something strapless or on your navel if you are wearing a cropped shirt.
13. Illuminate Your Eyes
Set aside your heavy powder eye shadows for now, and instead experiment with a sheer liquid formula in a pale shimmery hue, like silver, baby pink, or beige. Use your finger to pat the shadow onto your lids, blending a bit under your lower lashes to make your orbs twinkle.
14. Work A Hot Hair Accessory
A headband can make your mane look polished when it’s a zillion degrees outside, plus, practically every celeb is wearing one. Use it to push your bangs or face framing layers off your face. The best versions come in luxe fabrics and eye catching prints.
15. Be Smooth All Over
Note to self: During your next hair-removal session, don’t forget to shave, wax, or depilate the hair on your happy trail (that’s the line from your belly button to the top of your bikini) and the tops of your toes. Pros do it all the time at spas since it only takes a few seconds but makes a big difference.
16. Tame Your Mane
Curls gone wild? Here’s a super simple way to smooth down frizzies: Pat a little hand cream on your strands to nix puffiness instantly.
17. Get Pretty Nails
Pass over sheer pedi-polish shades in favor of shades with a rich, fruity feel. Pinks and reds come in radiant berry shades. Try a soft purple that shimmers.
18. Enhance Your Assets
To fake a deeper looking divide, exfoliate your chest with a gentle scrub, then contour with self-tanner— blending extra lotion into your cleavage. Once your tan develops, top it off with a glistening, gold-flecked oil.
19. Perfect Your Bikini Line
Got red bumps? Soothe the area with a dab of 1 percent hydrocortisone cream. Remember, wax or shave at night so skin can recoup before you hit the beach.
20. Hydrate Your Legs
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