Game Day Beauty: A Foolproof Guide to Your Football Face
It’s football season! For many college students, this is the best part of coming back to school (it sure is for me)!
If you’ve never been to a game or have had trouble maintaining your super cute look at the stadium, here is your guide to game day beauty essentials to make it a fun (and fashionable) experience for you!
Pre-game Beauty Tips:
- Pick makeup that will stay with you all day. For me, that means a moisturizer with SPF and lip and cheek stains. Stains are key, since powders and creams don’t tend to stand up well to sweat/wind/rain. For your face, I like to use Juice Beauty Tinted Mineral Moisturizers since they come with SPF and can even out your skintone. For lips, try Benefit’s Benetint, and for cheeks, blend on one of the Tarte natural cheek stains!
- For eyes, curl your eyelashes and go with a few layers of your favorite waterproof mascara—a minimal routine, but guaranteed to stay with you for the whole day. Choose a mascara that doesn’t get flaky, otherwise you’ll have raccoon eyes by the 3rd quarter. My favorites are Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash (note: not waterproof) and Maybelline Full ‘N Soft Waterproof Mascara.
- Hair help: Since you’re preparing for anything, I prefer to keep hair at least half up. That way, you don’t have to worry about knots in your hair from wind, or looking like a wet puppy if it rains. Try a half up ponytail, a French braid, or pigtails—this is one of the last times in your life when you can get away with some of these fun schoolgirl hairstyles!
- Have some school spirit! Temporary tattoos, glitter, face paint, and faux “eye black” (that reflective paint that players put underneath their eyes) are totally appropriate for this! I never go to a game without wearing either my Too Faced Starry Eyed Liner or a ribbon in my hair—I’m superstitious and those are my good luck accessories!
Gametime Gear:
- Team colors! You will definitely look like a football newbie if you show up to a game in the wrong colors. You can still be fashionable and have school spirit at the same time. For a guide to what clothing to bring, check out Megan’s take on seasonally-appropriate football attire.
- Supplies: Come prepared! Bring an oversized tote bag or purse–one large enough to stash your chapstick, hairties, and sunglasses, but also your hoodie and your poncho. Do as much as you can to ensure that you’ll be comfortable at the game, no matter the forecast.
- If your stadium allows, take an empty water bottle to fill up at the game to save money and stay hydrated! Stadium food is ridiculously overpriced, so I’m always looking for ways to keep from spending too much.
Are you a football fan? Does your school have a football team? What are your gameday essentials? Share your thoughts!
Posted on on September 9, 2009 / Filed Under: Beauty & Hair / Tags: Beauty, College Life, Football, Hair, How To, Makeup, Tips
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Alana @ The Good Girl Gone Blog
I’m in love with this reusable water bottle: http://su.pr/7xDPcr. Although the polka dots are starting to rub off, it was totally inexpensive and still looks cute. …definitely a game day essential!
Jess
Love ur ideas. The bad thing my school doesn’t have a football team(just found out today) :( so sad. We only have softball and volleyball :P sux
But great tips, I am going to use it once I transfer to UofH
Kelly
I go to a Big Ten school (Go Hawks!) and the only advice I have for football games is to dress up as spirited as possible. Girls here rock the black and gold striped overalls and face paint!
Nat
it`s of course good, but what `bout back-to-school series? :(
Amy
Good post! I like the ideas for make-up stuff!
I usually wear dark green eyeliner (one of my school colors!) along with my other make-up (I use Revlon 24 hour Colorstay liquid liner–that stuff doesn’t budge!). I realize that that some school colors wouldn’t look as cute in eyeliner form though!
The gametime gear is good! I also suggest that you find out if your school has a “Spirit Shirt” if you haven’t been to a game before. I didn’t wear one to my first game (school colors are green and yellow, shirt was yellow and I prefer green… but then I got to the game and the entire student section was wearing the yellow shirts but me! Felt like a total newbie!).
Kristina
love this post! a lot of girls at U of A sport the temporary tattoos- I break out like crazy if I wear them, but I think they are so spirited and adorable. Your suggestions are really good…sometimes I need to be reminded that game days require a different regimen than regular school days!
Luinae
My high school has a football team- and I love cheering and the games. It’s very much a social event. Everyone goes and cheers and has a great time.
Lisa
Living in Europe my school does not have your kind of football team. But my school have a soccer team. I think our tournaments are more based on fun and play than yours. But my schools color is pink (kind of baby pink) as a joke, and it is not the most masculine team color.
a few years ago, when we won the tournament, the tournament board would not let us wear the pink shirt. But all the boys wore it underneath the blue one, and took the blue shirt off. it was crazy, but really fun!!
Kate
I go to U of M (Go Blue!) We aren’t allowed to bring bags or purses so I wear a tank top or underarmour and put stuff like my cellphone and camera in my cleavage. Useful if you can’t bring a bag! The Big House is so crazy, and the student section is absolutely huge!
Wear maize, Go blue!