Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most individuals didn’t have the time to explore their creative, fashionista side, therefore many opted for a more natural, simple, low-maintenance look while some dared to be more colourful each day.

Today the pandemic has played a major role in how people approach fashion, creativity and beauty, giving them the time to explore and experience a new look.

‘Ready up for spring 2021,’ they say or the ‘hot girl summer is coming back.’
So what better way to celebrate a hot girl’s summer than with some vibrant and dynamic new looks?

Here Our Today lists a few seasons trends recommended by woman’s magazine Instyle that one can look forward to trying.

GRAPHIC LINER

Get creative with different colour eye liners to make your look stand out. After all, colour is coming back this season and, well, why not? Give your eyes an artistic twist.

According to Stephanie Flor, celebrity makeup artist and founder of Around the World Beauty: “With the eyes becoming the focus, we are getting creative on how to express (ourselves) with pops of colour.”

HIGH BLUSH

High blush all boils down to placement of colour to the cheeks.

According to Katie Jane Hughes, celebrity and editorial makeup artist: “Placement of blush is higher on the temples and blurred onto the cheekbones and around the eyelids.”

JUMBO BOX BRAIDS

We are definitely bringing back protective styles in full force and the jumbo
box braids in particular, are expected to be really popular this season. The process is easy, effective and well, stylish of course!

Ro Morgan, New York’s celebrity hairstylist, said he has been seeing a lot of jumbo box braids all over social media.

“People are skipping the time it takes to create tiny braids, and choosing to wear 30 braids or less.”

The benefit of braids is that it is more cost efficient than buying a wig and the colour infusion in braids is not a long chemical process like bleaching or dying.

It is literally taking a coloured strand and plaiting it into the natural or already braided hair.

ROUND AFROS

Today’s era marks acceptance, accepting your natural skin colour, accepting
yourself for who you are and accepting your natural, God-given hair, whether that means straight, curly or kinky strands.

However, for wavy and curly textured hair, it’s all about volume-boosting, airy and rounded cuts.

Ona Diaz-Santin, another New York curly hair expert and stylist, said the, “highest point of the fringe is the centre, almost creating a slight frown to open up the forehead area. Instead of keeping the shape dense, the trend now is creating space for the curls to live in, which provides a frothier approach”.

NATURAL LOOKING BROWS

Natural looking brows are so in. Get rid of the brow pencils or powders used to fill in the brows.

Natural looking brows aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. This look is here stay.

According to Joy Fennel, makeup artist and founder of The Joy in Beauty, “Full brows help to shape your face and they can also make you look super healthy.”

She says: “Just a caveat, I’m not referring to hard, dark-coloured-in brows but rather brows that look like you were born this way. Adding flicks of colour to match your brow color into your brows can help make them look natural. This gives the illusion of a natural, fuller brow.”

FAUX FRECKLES

Do you like freckles and wish you were born with them? You can simply apply tiny freckled-like spots to the face to achieve this look.

Flow mentioned that, “Freckles just add a little extra fun to a look. But no freckle is created equal, so adding a little dot here and there along the bridge of the nose adds a little personality to your face. Pop artiste Doja Cat is known to add freckles to her looks as a way to glam up her style.”

Though the pandemic hasn’t subsided as yet, and some countries still haven’t opened up enough for you to hit the hot spots, Our Today still dares you to stand out.