Be it “cloud skin,” “tomato girl makeup” or “dolphin skin,” many of the most recent and desirable beauty and makeup trends can be found on TikTok. The app’s latest coveted look draws inspiration from a beloved morning beverage: a creamy, frothy latte.
According to New York- and Los Angeles-based makeup artist J Guerra, “latte makeup” is an effortless, universally flattering and monochromatic look characterized by neutral browns, milky nudes and glossy skin.
“The natural shades of toffee, oat, cocoa, macadamia and deep espresso are sheer washes of blended browns that look almost like beautiful watercolor coffee stains tinted across [the] skin,” Guerra explained, adding that the entire look should feel soft, blended and applied with a light hand.
“Experiment with different shades until you find a combination that you like. [This] is a versatile makeup look that you can easily customize to your own liking, much like your coffee.” he said.
Ayesha Biamba, a U.K.-based makeup artist who made her own TikTok recreating this coffee-influenced look, told HuffPost that latte makeup shouldn’t be without touches of gold and bronze to highlight key areas of the face. (These moments of shimmer should look wet and shiny rather than metallic.)
“A key application tip is to ensure you are enhancing your undertones to showcase a bronze glam look and don’t apply so much powder to set the face as you still want to achieve that dewy [skin] finish,” Biamba said.
She also assures makeup newbies and beauty savants alike that this lived-in and everyday-appropriate look doesn’t require tons of products and can be done in less than 20 minutes.
Up ahead, both Biamba and Guerra, along with several other professional makeup artists, detail the necessary steps, some useful techniques and the ideal products to achieve the latte makeup look for yourself.
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Guerra's sculpting product of choice is Westman Atelier's Face Trace, is a creamy, easy-to-blend contour stick packed with hydrators like jojoba seed oil and berryflux vita. It's available in three flexible shades and offers a satin-like skin finish.
Celebrity makeup artist Elizabeth Seropian agreed with the use of creamy blushes in subtle shades, and recommended Glossier's cult-favorite Cloud Paint, a cream-to-gel blush that provides a seamless, buildable color so that cheeks look naturally flushed. Available in eight shades — notably Dusk, a brownish nude — Cloud Paint contains special blurring pigments for a soft-focus effect that won't exaggerate pores or texture.
This collection of richly pigmented and incredibly versatile matte shades was inspired by human skin tones from light to deep, and features every neutral from warm creams to cool browns. The formula has a cream-like feel, blendable coverage and adheres to the skin to prevent fallout.
Guerra said to layer your favorite coffee-toned eyeshadow over your first wash of eye base to add dimension and to set the cream contour.
This six-shade palette features a bouncy texture and high color payoff in three shimmer finishes and two mattes. Topping your lids with shimmer shades like these are what Guerra said is the last eyeshadow step.
He chose Yves Saint Laurent's Candy Glaze lip gloss stick in the shades Cacao No Boundary, Nude Pleasure or Scenic Brown. The unique formulation offers both the sheer color of a lipstick and the glazed shine of a gloss and is enriched with nourishing ingredients vitamin E, hyaluronic acid and mango oils.
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