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How to Look Like a Victoria’s Secret Model!

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Jaime Ritter Student Contributor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UAB chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.


1. Part your hair down the center, or do a deep side part. The models do both, so it’s up to you (and your bangs). Next, back-comb your roots to tease them. Smooth them out, then curl small 3/4 inch pieces rotating the iron away from your face. It’s better to have an iron without a clamp, so you can unscrew your clamp with a screwdriver if your iron has one. After you curl about 5 pieces, twist them together as one section so that you get big, sexy curls. After your entire head is done, rub with a dime-sized amount of finishing cream and and complete the look with some with hair spray. If it looks too “perfect”, tousle your fingers through it until you achieve the bombshell sex-hair look. 

2. Here’s the tricky part. You need to highlight your face so that your skin looks shimmery and glowing without looking like a sparkly clown. So, conceal only your “trouble spots”, like around your nose and mouth, under your eyes, and any marks on your face. Next, contour the hollows of your cheeks (the part that sinks in when you make a fishy face) with bronzer. Then rub a pink cream blush on the fattest part of your cheeks, you want them to look flushed. Rub the cream over the bronzer until it looks natural. Then, highlight the bridge of your nose and cheekbones with a shimmery white or gold powder. Again, think angel, not Edward Cullen in the sunlight.

3. Victoria’s Secret girls are all about bedroom eyes, but you’ll never see them looking too smokey, because the key is to look “well-rested”. So, start with shimmery cream eyeshadows in gold, brown, and beige (depending on your skin color). My personal favorite is “Birthday Suit” by Benefit, which is a creamy light gold color. Next, line all around your eyes with a waterproof black pencil, and smudge with a Q-tip. Curl your lashes, and finish with two coats of lengthining mascara. 

4. Lastly, a pinky-nude lip color and pink gloss complete the look. 

5. PS-Check out these girl’s confidence! Stand up straight and work the UAB hallways like they’re a runway!


Jaime is a junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There she is the captain of her varsity golf team and a journalism and English double-major. She is an active member in the Student Athletic Advisory Committee where she helps organize volunteer opportunities and social functions for student-athletes at UAB. Jaime enjoys cooking, entertaining friends, reading/writing blogs, fashion, and of course, golf. She aspires to eventually write for a major magazine or write chick-lit books.