It’s a Monday (or Tuesday, or Wednesday – you get the idea), 3PM rolls around, and your habitual, oh, let’s call it a five-minute Twitter break, leads you to a YouTube clip of a woman hearing actual sounds for the first time. You’re at an overcrowded industry party when a fellow partygoer steps on your baby toe with her cigarette Saint Laurent heel while reaching for a roving glass of Moët. This past Friday, you and your girlfriends grabbed a couple of bottles of wine (each), made a massive batch of guacamole, and holed up to watch Titanic (for old time’s sake… and Leo). Well guys, if you’re anything like us, all the aforementioned scenarios turn you into a sobbing, blubbering, shall we even say snotty mess.
Next thing you know, your mascara is halfway down your painstakingly contoured cheeks. (Another consequence of YouTube? Yup.) Your eyes: puffy and bloodshot. And your face: blotchy. And since most of said tears shed tend to be in public (or in the presence of others), we needed to find way-easy and seriously fast ways to snap out of it. That’s why we asked two (count ’em) makeup artists and a psychologist to give us their beauty and mental health tips for freshening up in under a minute.
Listen to Music
“Sometimes you can uplift your mood by using the power of music. Play a very upbeat song with optimistic and fun language, and allow yourself to go crazy dancing to this.” – Dr. Elyse Goldstein, New York–based psychologist
De-Puff Eyes
“Ice, ice, and more ice. Just wrap it with a washcloth so you don’t make your skin red. Also a great time to use your Touché Éclat under the eye area to refresh them.” – Jamie Greenberg, makeup artist (CV includes Rashida Jones and Anna Faris)
