Shower regularly. Take a shower every one or two days, depending on the weather and the level of activity you’ve undertaken. Always shower after a heavy workout, though. Some girls have to wash their hair everyday because it’s naturally greasy, and some girls only every other day. Find out what’s right for you. Tuck your hair up under a shower cap. Do so if you wish to take a shower but feel your hair doesn’t need a wash. Smell sweet. Use scented hair or body products in the shower, and use some body lotion in order to keep your skin soft. Spray yourself lightly with perfume or body mists. You may wish to buy coordinated scents to maximize the effect. Whilst a faint smell is lovely, beware of overdoing it, especially at school. Less is more. No amount of ‘smellies’ can successfully mask the smell of sweat. Use a good antiperspirant to prevent sweating. You may wish to top off with a deodorant which will mask the smell of your sweat.
Experiment with different products to find what best suits you. Talk to a pharmacist about the products on offer. However, give each product a fortnight or so before you expect to see any real effect. If you find that you have a lot of problems with spots, visit your doctor. They may prescribe certain medications to help clear it up.
Use a close to your complexion foundation or for a lighter feel, a tinted moisturizer. Apply concealer under the eyes and on pimples. Pat it on, and don’t rub it in. Afterwards, lightly dab on face powder to cover your face, and blend in your foundation with your concealer. Remember to remove all makeup every night. Otherwise, it will clog your pores and cause acne.
If you have blue eyes, there are several shadow shades that will work for you. Shades in the brown, light pink and violet families work best generally. Also, try rich browns, golds, warm taupe, soft peaches, and pretty lilacs. For eyeliner, go with a brown shade or dark brown to keep it subtle and soft. You want to look as if you woke up that way. With mascara, use brown or brown/black mascara, or even clear mascara to look the most natural. “Decorate” your green eyes. Violet and plum eye shadow shades are best for green eyes. Warmer colors like deep purples, mauve, lilacs, and medium pinks are also good choices. Browns, bronzes, golds, coppers, and deep greens will also compliment your eye color. For eyeliner, try a dark brown, hunter green, or plum shade. Black eyeliner can often be too overwhelming. However, if you think it can look nice, then use it. Your mascara should be brownish black too. Use black mascara sparingly. Complement your brown eyes. Brown eyes are some of the easiest to complement. This eye color can get away with greens, golds, browns, pinks, blues, grays and purples. Earthy colors tend to look the best for neutral looks. Black eyeliner will work nicely with brown eyes. Use some black mascara to open and brighten the eyes. Complement hazel eyes. Shades of pale pink, light purple and baby blush look great with hazel eyes. Use some shimmer on your lids to bring out the twinkle in your eyes. Hazel eyes stand out with deep greens, lavenders and shades with soft yellow undertones. To bring out the gold in your eyes, choose golden based eye shadows. To bring out the green specks in your eyes, choose a brighter green shade like emerald and apply in three different intensities. To bring out the blue specks in your eyes, go with purple in three different shades. To highlight the brown base of your hazel eyes stick with natural shades of brown. This will give you that “do-like” appearance. To bring out the green and blue specks with a more natural look, go with soft natural shades paired with dark green or blue liner and black mascara.
Use a medicated lip balm or chap-stick of your choice. Do this in order to keep them smooth and supple. Apply your favorite lip gloss/lip tint on top, in order to get sheer and shiny lips. Lip glosses come in many sweet flavors. Do not lick them off!
Try shaving if you haven’t already. Use a shaving cream with a razor to remove hair. Buy a woman’s razor to avoid nicking yourself. Sensitive razors are available for shavings your underarms and bikini area. If you are afraid of cutting yourself, try a depilatory cream or lotion.
If your eyebrows are thin and undefined, use an eyebrow pencil, or matte eyeshadow. Use it close to your eyebrow color to color them in. Use a pencil/shadow at least 2 shades lighter then your hair. Never use black; it looks far too harsh, even on black eyebrows.
Use a high quality shampoo and conditioner, then apply your styling products. If your hair gets very oily and you feel like you have to shampoo your hair everyday, invest in a dry shampoo from a local beauty supply store. If your hair is more textured (curly or wavy) shampoo your hair once to twice a week, and use a conditioner on your no-shampoo days. Every hair type deserves personalized care; curly hair has different needs to straight or wavy hair. If you want to add something interesting, try coloring your hair; do not use anything too bold or different. Don’t go from black to platinum blonde, you may be labeled as unoriginal or fake. Do soft, subtle shades about one to two shades lighter for a complete dye. For highlights or a soft ombre, you can temporarily try different colors of your choice. Nothing too out of the ordinary, especially at private schools.
Always use a heat protestant to avoid damaging your hair too much. If you prefer using no heat, there are tons of heat-less ways to differently style your hair on YouTube. You can even get new hairstyle tutorials to try. For example, use a french braid, fishtail, waterfall, heat-less waves, creative ponytails and buns, etc. Style it differently everyday. A little accessory makes a difference.
Wear what your school allows. If you have a skirt that you feel is a bit too long, Roll it up a bit, but no more than two to four inches above the knee. The school will know and the people will confront you in front of the whole class. How embarrassing! Try untucking your school shirt, and unbuttoning the first two buttons, which is usually above your cleavage. But, if you can’t do anything to alter the uniform due to strict teachers, leave the uniform alone.
On the first week of school, just tag along. Don’t try to be friends with anyone just yet. Find a person to help you adapt to class. She will be a good friend to you, so don’t stop talking to her when you get popular.
If you gain more friends and are confident enough, try joining the school council, or even president. Don’t be fake and try to like everything they like, you still want to be yourself right? And what fun would it be anyway if you weren’t yourself?
Soak up their trends, gossip, and everything else. Do not distribute it, though. They might not even care for your opinion right now, as they might not even consider you a friend. You can get into conflicts with others for gossiping about them. If you tell a secret of theirs to someone else they won’t trust you anymore. You’ll be at square one again, so don’t get too overconfident and forget who you are.
If you aren’t invited, don’t be too disappointed, maybe you’ll have to initiate interactions. You can invite her (leader of clique), and her only to your house. She might accept. Keep the conversations light and flowing. Do fun things like prank call people, watch movies, bake things, do nails, makeup, facials, and hair. Don’t feel restricted to only be at your place. If your old enough you could plan it on a night that has a party, you could get ready at your place, (Hair, makeup, cute outfits) and have a blast at the party. Afterwards, you could come home and do something else interesting. The next time you can invite the others, but if you feel like you have to always initiate conversations and she never tries to talk to you either, then maybe it isn’t even worth it. She may also be hard to convince or trust people as a close friend. Don’t share your beliefs and deep secrets yet, focus a little on her for now so she can build your trust as well as you, so you can be certain she doesn’t distribute your secrets and beliefs either.
