How to Style Your Clients’ Lashes for Awards Season

Awards season is quickly approaching, and there are so many tantalizing looks for lashes that your clients can explore at your salon. As you order lash extension supplies for your spa, salon, or lash studio in anticipation of upcoming red carpet events and watch parties, don’t forget that you can set yourself apart by offering eye makeup application services in addition to lash extension applications. Perfect your clients’ lashes with these seven hot-to-go makeup looks.

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Black Cherry Lashes

What says red carpet better than, well, black cherry lashes? This year, cherry makeup is an obsession capturing the hearts of women everywhere. You’ll want bold shades of grey, black, and cherry eyeshadows, along with a black cherry gel eyeliner, to create that grungy girlfriend aesthetic that’s all too popular right now.

How to Complete This Look: After applying your client’s lashes, use an eyeshadow primer and a base shade. For black cherry-flavored lashes, you might opt for an ombre look with black eyeshadow on the outer corner of the eye and black cherry eyeshadow on the inner corner. Start with lighter shades, then build to black while blending well. You can apply black cherry eyeliner after the eyeshadow to enhance your client’s lashes.

Aura Eyes

This Chappell Roan-inspired look is about giving your client’s lashes a makeup mood ring aesthetic with confident, vibey pastels. Think soft, wispy eyelash extensions set on a bed of shifting color. Apply iridescent makeup that shifts from glittery gold to soft blues, greens, and pinks from her eyes all the way to her brow and below to her cheekbone for a confident full-color makeup look that says, “I’m here, I’m beautiful, and I’m ready for the red carpet.”

How to Complete This Look: After applying your client’s wispy lashes, you’ll want to get a sense of their style. You could center their eye makeup around their favorite color. For instance, if they live in pink, you can incorporate soft aura colors that will go well with soft pink hues as the primary focus.

Sultry Siren Lashes

The Sultry Eye is all about visually elongating your client’s eyes in a seductive way without going over the top. It’s also a versatile look for your client’s eyelash extensions that can be dressed up for any red carpet watch party or dressed down for a casual afternoon.

How to Complete This Look: First, apply a neutral-toned eyeshadow. Then, define your client’s upper lash line. Starting at the center of the top lid, draw a thin line toward the outer corner. Once you finish the upper lid, use the same liner to lightly trace the inner corner. Then, use a shader brush or blender brush to blend everything together and apply a waterproof gel eyeliner pencil along the lower lash line to connect the inner corner liner and wing to the bottom eyeliner.

“All Dolled UP” Lashes

If your clients want the opposite of sultry, they’ll love having their lashes “all dolled up.” This trend is all about making your client’s natural features bigger. Think big lashes, big eyes, and pink shadow inspired by the dolls of her childhood and even Sabrina Carpenter.

How to Complete This Look: First, add a nude liner to your client’s waterline to create a bigger eye, then compliment it with shades of pink and nude eyeshadows. Using a matte pink-mauve shadow in the crease of the eye and then deepening the crease with a rosy brown will help elevate the look. And, of course, big, bold, dramatic lashes are what really sell this dolled-up look. Once your client adds plenty of blush to her cheeks at home, she’s ready to go!

Divine Golden Goddess Lashes

Sometimes, you have a client whose look says gold is the way to go. Maybe you’re applying glue for eyelashes to their volume extensions and notice their skin tone just screams golden goddess. Or, they have eyes that must be served on a golden palette because their energy is simply that beautiful. Whatever the case may be, if you (and your client) are feeling golden, here’s your how-to.

How to Complete This Look: First, pick your client’s shade of gold. Typically, satin champagne eyeshadow shades work well for fair skin; combine bronze and nude shades to make a darker faux gold for medium skin tones; and consider warm caramel mattes for darker skin tones to add a pop of brightness. Second, use a shader brush to blend your shadow. Depending on how dramatic your client would like their look, you can use any of these golden shades on the inner eye for a bit of pop or make a statement by swapping out black eyeliner with a gold pencil to line their eyes.

Mix-and-Match Lashes

Who says both lashes (or eyes) have to rock the same look? Not this mix-and-match lash style. You’ll want plenty of lash kits on hand for this look because you’ll need them. You never know what mix-and-match styles your client could request. It could be as simple as asking for a different lash extension color with complementary varied eyeshadows on each eye. Or, they may go as bold as wanting to juxtapose two wildly different styles. Maybe they want to rock the aura eyes on one side and big, open doll lashes on the other eye.

How to Complete This Look: Completing this look will require a wide array of extensions, supplies, extension compatible cosmetics, and plenty of creativity to complete whichever mix-and-match vision you and your client come up with. It could be eyelashes and makeup that make a statement based on their favorite nominated movie aesthetics, mixing and matching their top two favorite actors’ or actresses’ looks, or simply whatever two personal styles speak to them that day.

“Chic n Sync” Lashes

This style offers a signature, custom eyelash makeup look for two and a prime marketing opportunity for you. You could offer a special at your salon, spa, or lash studio for a “Chic n Sync” UV lash extensions application for two. This could be two friends attending the same watch party, a mother-daughter duo wanting to spend quality time together, or twins wishing to be even more in sync by getting matching “Chic n Sync” Lashes.

How to Complete This Look: First, you’ll want examples of different lash extensions and makeup styles so your duo can agree on a specific style. From there, you’ll apply their UV-cured classic or volume lash extensions as usual and follow up with your clients’ eyelash extension compatible makeup preferences.

As you can see, there are many ways to dress up your clients’ volume lashes for award season. Whether they prefer subdued best-supporting actor looks or ones that take the lead role and the red carpet by storm, these makeup looks will be perfect for your clients’ red-carpet watch parties.

About Xtreme Lashes®

With 20 years in the semi-permanent eyelash extension and eyelash extension compatible cosmetic industry, Xtreme Lashes® has developed beauty product solutions featured at the Golden Globes®, Academy Awards, and more. Registered Nurse and educator Jo Mousselli founded the company in 2005 to create safe, long lasting, semi-permanent lash solutions and online training designed to help people have rewarding careers as independent lash technicians. As they celebrate their 20th anniversary as a company, Xtreme Lashes is still innovating with their new FlashCure™ UV Lash Extension Application System that allows certified Xtreme Lashes lash stylists to apply longer, darker, and fuller lashes to their clients’ natural lashes more effectively through the safe use of UV curing technology. Since 2005, delivering safe products and effective online training remains the number one goal of Xtreme Lashes.

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