She’s the athlete everybody’s rooting for. She’s additionally poised to interrupt Olympic information in Paris. However it appears Simone Biles is simply as devoted to her pre-Olympics magnificence prep as she is to her flooring, vault and beam work.
Unsurprisingly, Simone has a large following on TikTok. Her 1.5 million followers cannot get sufficient of her candid behind-the-scenes movies about her observe periods, her marriage to Jonathan Owens and her magnificence routine.
In a current TikTok, which accrued over 650,000 likes, she reveals her “girls version of GTL” within the run as much as the Video games. For the uninitiated, GTL is an acronym for ‘gym, tan, laundry’, a person’s day by day ritual that first featured on the TV present Jersey Shore.
Within the video, captioned “a girls version of GTL, hahahaha hair, nails, wax & lashes… for obvious reasons I didn’t film my wax appt & I do my own lashes so there’s that. ❤️ #paris #olympics”, Simone talks by her pre-Paris prep.
Her first cease is with “my girl Jaz” – a.okay.a Simone’s long-time skilled hairstylist, Jazmine Johnson – and we see Simone having her hair washed earlier than her tape-in extensions are refreshed. “It just has a little more versatility so I can pull it up in a bun whenever needed so when I’m flippin’ around, nothing is out of place,” Simone says. “Well, hopefully…,” she provides.
She then switches to a shot of the completed end result: shiny, lengthy, chest-length strands. “I love when it’s bone straight,” she says with a playful smile to digicam.
Subsequent on the schedule is an appointment along with her nail artist Jasmine, who creates a brief, oval nail form that includes embellished French suggestions and a tiny glowing silver crystal on the base.
Whereas Simone reveals that she does her personal lashes, she would not go into any extra element on this TikTok. However in a earlier “GRWM Olympic Trials” video, she shared her contour method, in addition to a close-up of her fanned-out, fluttery lash extensions earlier than declaring, “I’m going to try winged eyeliner,” which added delicate definition to the general look.
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Within the Netflix documentary Simone Biles Rising, she talked candidly about struggling to adapt to gymnastic’s Eurocentric magnificence requirements. Simone recounts adverse feedback she has obtained about her look, together with one comment that her hair appeared ‘crunchy’, and admits, “I think the beauty standard, everything, is just too much.”
If something, Simone Biles has proven that she’s doing magnificence – in addition to gymnastics – on her personal phrases. And he or she’s successful at each. Simone is probably the most adorned gymnast within the historical past of the game and we will not wait to see the silver on her nails flip to gold on the medals podium.
For extra from Fiona Embleton, GLAMOUR’s Affiliate Magnificence Director, comply with her on @fiembleton.
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