Makeover Games: Makeup Salon

The screen opens on a bare face sitting in a salon chair, with a tray of makeup tools lined up along the side. Makeup Salon has you pick a foundation shade first, and the skin evens out right away, giving a base for every color choice that follows.

The tools split into stages: cream and powder foundations, blush in a few finishes, eyeshadow palettes running from neutral browns to shimmer, and lip colors from a soft nude to a deep matte red. Once the face is done, a hair panel opens with braids, waves and updos, and a nail station follows with polish colors and simple nail art. Each stage locks in before the next one opens, so choices build in order rather than layering all at once.

Where a lot of makeover games rush straight to hair and clothes, this one treats the face like its own project, with enough shade and finish options at the makeup stage that two players rarely land on the same combination. The round ends with a finished portrait, done up in matching lips, cheeks, hair and nails, ready to look over before starting fresh.

Match the blush to the lip color instead of picking them separately, since the two shades sit close together on the face and clash easily if they fight each other. Building foundation and eyeshadow before nails keeps the palette consistent across the whole look. The nail station is easy to skip since it sits at the end of the sequence, but going back to color-match nails to the lip finish pulls the whole thing together.