Spa Day Makeup Artist: Makeover Salon Girl Games

A client is sitting in the salon chair before you've clicked anything. First you pick a spa treatment, and the screen switches to a little mask-and-steam scene where you tap through the steps. Rinse her off and she moves to the next station with a cleaner, brighter face, which is your blank canvas for everything after.

The stations run in the order a real salon would. Facial masks and scrubs first, then makeup with blush, eyeshadow palettes, mascara and a row of lip colors, then hair where you choose a cut, a color and a few accessories. There's a nail table too, with polish shades and little decals. The makeup layers on top of the cleaned-up skin, so a heavier blush sits over the glow instead of covering it.

The spa sequence is the hook here. Most makeover games skip straight to lipstick, but this one makes you earn the glow first, and the finished skin actually changes how the makeup reads. A round ends with your client posed in her full look, skin, hair, nails and all, and you can take it in as one completed before-and-after.

Work in station order and the result comes together better. Go light on the eyeshadow if you picked a bold lip, since both at full strength gets muddy. Use a subtle nail color if her outfit has a pattern, and save the glitter decals for when the rest of the look is plain. Check the face after the spa step before adding blush, because the mask sometimes leaves enough color that you barely need any.