Behind Amber Glenn’s “Rebellious” GLAAD Awards Make-up

What do you do if you’ve simply received a gold medal on the Olympics? Share the glory by presenting an award to another person! With mentioned gold medal round your neck, ideally.

On Thursday, March 5, Amber Glenn hit the city (ie. Los Angeles) for an evening on the GLAAD Awards. To prep for the occasion, she labored with Haus Labs make-up artist Alana Theus on a glance that mixed her signature look—she loves a daring eye each on and off the ice—with a glowy complexion that someway outshined her prized accent.

Forward, Theus tells Byrdie precisely how the make-up got here to be, actual product breakdown and utility ideas included.

Amber Glenn’s GLAAD Awards Make-up

Together with her blonde hair piled on high of her head and skating gown swapped out for a wise black go well with, Glenn rocked a serious punch of darkish shadow and liner that rimmed the whole thing of her blue eyes. Her cheeks gleamed with a contact of peachy blush and her lips had been glossed up with a dusty pink hue.

Based on Theus, they drew inspiration from Madonna and her iconic, daring smoked-out shadow for the look: “one thing a bit rebellious and effortlessly cool.”

“We went with a grunge structural eye and clear lovely pores and skin,” added the artist.

Learn how to Get the Look

The important thing to the look was perfecting the pores and skin with the Haus Labs Triclone Pores and skin Tech Basis and Triclone Pores and skin Tech Concealer.

“If you’re doing a daring eye, a seamless complexion retains the entire look feeling balanced and polished,” she defined. For Glenn, they used the muse in Shade 100 and concealer in Shade 5.

Relating to utility, Theus likes to start out with a light-weight layer of basis and construct up protection solely when wanted. Then, she faucets within the concealer with the Haus Labs Concealer Brush “to brighten and conceal underneath the eyes whereas strategically concealing across the nostril and chin.”

“Each key merchandise are long-wearing so whether or not Amber’s on the ice or the pink carpet, the pores and skin will keep flawless,” she provides. For the eyes, the Clear Minimize Liquid Eyeliner was a staple for creating the daring wing.

Different go-tos included Coloration Fuse Glassy Blush Balm within the dusty pink shade Glassy Ginger, Coloration Fuse Powder Blush in tender coral Pomelo Peach, Precision Sculpt Shaping Balm in Chisel, Energy Sculpt Velvet Bronzer in Bronzed Umber, Bio-Radiant Gel Powder Highlighter in Peach Quartz, and B Structural Volumizing + Lengthening Mascara. (Plus a yet-to-be-revealed new launch—you will hear extra quickly.)

The Ultimate Contact

Earlier than the Olympian headed out the door, Theus whipped out the Bio-Blurring Unfastened Setting powder.

“This product provides that photo-finish and retouched impact earlier than even hitting the pink carpet. Because it’s talc-free, it additionally eliminates the danger of flashback in images,” the artist defined. “One trick I like is to take a small dome brush and apply the free powder alongside the underside lash line over the black shadow. This helps lock every thing in and retains the smoky impact with out smudging or transferring.”