Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Taylor Swift is making a world tour stop here in Singapore and just about everybody has tried to queue for tickets. The combination of dramatic costumes, singing and dancing done throughout her concerts would undoubtedly result in a lot of sweat, especially coupled with the summer temperatures here. Yet Swift’s makeup is able to weather it all and look as fresh at the end as it did at the start.

The key to a long-wearing complexion begins with proper skincare to ensure that your skin is well-hydrated and moisturised to last through the wringer you’re going to be put through. The addition of a sheet mask, for example, can give your skin added nourishment. Next, you have to pick complexion products – primers, foundations, powders and the like – that have been formulated to be long-wearing. Even better if they’re waterproof, sweat- and humidity-resistant so they can survive the balmy heat.

The Lancome Teint Idole foundation ticks all the above boxes, being water- and humidity-proof as well as sweat-resistant thanks to the Airwear technology. The thin and lightweight formula offers a natural matte full-coverage finish while being powered by pigments that keep the colour true to shade without creasing or caking. It also contains hyaluronic acid, moringa oil, vitamin E and prebiotics to nourish.

Concerts in Singapore are often at night. But whether it falls on weekdays or weekends, Zendaya’s soft smoky eyes are a quick way to play up your femininity without being too intricate with the details. Just take a light- to mid-tone shade to blend all over the crease, a slightly deeper brown to sculpt a winged, cat-eye effect, and top it all off with some sparkly shadow. And of course, several lashings of mascara and a thin stroke of eyeliner are needed to complete the easy look you can do the morning of.

Colourpop is an affordable yet quality beauty label to experiment with different shades of makeup. The Blush Baby palette contains nine wearable pinky neutral shades that can be worn whether you’re on a date or heading to the office. Use the metallic shades in the middle row to amp up the shine factor.

If you have more time to play with your concert makeup, take a leaf from Lisa’s book and adorn your face with some well-placed glitter. After doing a simple sweep of colour over the eyelids, use tweezers and your creativity to curate your own dramatic sequinned look.

You don’t need eyelash glue to use these Pley Beauty stick-on pearls and rhinestones as they come with their own putty adhesive. These gems can be used repeatedly on the face and body to create anything from subtle definition to a dramatic pop.

Another low-effort yet impactful makeup look comes from none other than Ariana Grande. This is a cut crease created with a single bright colour that pops against the colour of her skin and eyes, which is then extended to give further drama akin to a graphic liner effect. Using a detail eyeshadow brush, sketch out the shade of the cut crease before filling it in with the chosen shade.

The seafoam shade worn by Ariana Grande is from the Midnight Shadows Metallic Gel Eyeshadow made by her beauty label, R.E.M. Beauty, in the shade ‘Touch.’ The gel shadow has a lightweight texture that offers a blinding finish, packed with ultra-fine shimmer pigments. Available in five shades, use the eyeshadow as it is across the lids or add some dimension to a matte eye.

This article first appeared in Her World