4 Makeup Looks Inspired by Latina Icons

If your mom warned you about going overboard with the tweezers in your teen years (and you listened), you both deserve to take a bow. Full brows are in and for good reason: "Defined brows have the power to lift and even brighten your eyes," says Priscilla Freire, a Dominican makeup artist in New York City.

To get a better sense of your brows' natural shape and fullness, Freire suggests using a clear brow gel, like Maybelline New York Brow Fast Sculpt Gel Mascara, to brush the hairs up and out; then assess. Working with your natural brow shape, tweeze random hairs that fall outside of your brow line. Then fill in any sparse areas with a brow pencil in the shade closest to your natural color.

With lashes like these, your glam look is on lock. First, apply lots of mascara to top and bottom lashes. Look for a smudge-proof and volumizing formula, such as E.L.F. Cosmetics Big Mood Mascara. You can also wiggle a black pencil eyeliner at the roots of lashes for more definition. Tons of bristles help reach every teeny lash.

A red lip is so classic—it never goes out of style, says Genevieve Herr, a Cuban celebrity makeup artist who counts Anya Taylor-Joy and Eva Mendes as clients. However, there's room to play with the color and make it your own. For a subtler take on the star's iconic hue, line your lips with a nude liner that matches your skin tone. Try the range of Buxom Power Line Plumping Lip Liners. 

Back in the day, to achieve this Old Hollywood screen-siren hairstyle, women would park themselves under a big hooded drying chair at the salon to slowly and gently dry their hair in curlers. Today, it's all about embracing your unique hair texture. So when hair is damp, apply a leave-in conditioner and curl cream and let it air-dry (no salon trip needed). "This is a great way to discover your natural wave or curl," says Eladia Lebron, a Dominican master stylist at Ineffable New York, a salon in New York City that specializes in curly hair. "Then you can wrap waves or coils around a curling wand to stretch and define them."

Or if your hair is straight, you can follow Lebron's modern take on María's retro waves. Part your hair, gather a half-inch section on one side of your part, tease the roots with a tail comb, then apply two pumps of volumizing foam, like Innersense Organic Beauty I Create Lift Volumizing Foam to dampen it.