Beautician Princess

Beautician Princess starts with a princess slouched in a salon chair, her face plain and her hair flat, and the first tool you reach for is almost always the cleansing pad. Wipe it across her cheeks and the tired shading lifts before anything else changes. Only after that first pass does the rest of the toolkit light up: mask, brushes and all.

The toolkit runs in a rough order down the side: cleansing pads and a face mask first, then a row of brushes for blush and eyeshadow, then lipstick shades and a curling iron for her hair. A cucumber-slice eye mask sits apart from the makeup, since it belongs to the spa step rather than the finished face. Hairstyles sit last, and a curled style layers over whatever color you picked without undoing the makeup underneath.

A lot of makeover games start you on the face right away, but this one makes you run a spa pass first, so the makeup goes on top of skin that already looks rested instead of covering up the flat, tired version underneath. A round ends with the princess sitting up in the chair, fully done, ready for whatever comes after the mirror.

Running the spa steps fully before opening the makeup drawer keeps the blush from sitting on shading that is about to get wiped away anyway. Two passes on the eyeshadow, a light shade first and a darker one only at the outer corner, read better than one heavy swipe. Save the curling iron for last, since flattening it again while picking a lipstick shade would mean doing the hair twice.