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Your main goal in putting on make-up is too emphasize your features when swimming your routine, NOT to make yourself look like a clown.
You'll need these basic waterproof items:
- red lipstick
- basic blush (find blush that doesn’t have a brush applicator, brushes make you look odd if they get wet)
- black eyeliner
- basic eye shadow that matches the main colors in your routine competition suit
- gentle make-up remover.
Additional items that are not a necessity: some kind of glitter eye shadow or eyeliner, lip liner, waterproof mascara.
Usually routines decided as a group what colors they are going to use and then all swimmers use that lipstick, eye shadow and so forth. You need to look the same.
**Becca's pet peeves about make-up:
- Not reapplying make-up after warm-up (lipstick is worn off, no sign of blush any more, etc.)
- Bright pink, bright orange or brown lipstick, for obvious reasons.
- Not using dark enough eyeliner and/or using heavy eyeliner on the lower lid resulting in raccoon eyes. Eyeliner should be dramatic on the upper lid extending out and up. (Older athletes can demonstrate for younger swimmers.)
- Squares of blush on cheeks, blush not rubbed in, not along cheekbones.
- Lipstick on teeth/braces.
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