4 Ways to Step Up Your Style In Spring Break Photos!

Students of all ages rejoice when Spring Break rolls around, and many seize the opportunity to run off to someplace warm, soak up some rays, and forget about academic burdens. Sand, surf, and selfies are all a part of this annual tradition, but many factors on the beach can get in the way of capturing flawless photos. Windblown locks and dripping beach hair are the norm, waterproof makeup is never quite as waterproof as advertised, and once you get a sunburn…it’s all over! 

Luckily, now we can take photos when the mood strikes, and perfect them later. Ensure your Spring Break snaps show off the epic nature of your festivities! Check out these sunny suggestions on how to enhance your photos on the ride back to campus with YouCam Makeup & YouCam Perfect!

1. Get Foolproof Digital Makeup That Won’t Wash Away Or Smudge

Forget about purchasing a costly collection of waterproof cosmetics for your trip, and bring your YouCam Makeup App instead. This smart makeup kit lives on your phone, and allows you to enjoy a swim, snap a photo and apply flawless styles before you share your photos with the world. Here we applied the light and natural ‘Sunny’ look to achieve a beach-like quality.

2. Banish Beach Hair By Recreating Your Perfect Coif

It’s hard to look your best when you just crawled out of the ocean or a swimming pool, and that soaked beach hair is tricky to rock in photos. Use YouCam Makeup to recreate your natural chic hairdo in your post-swim pics.

3. Get A Group Selfie Where Everyone Looks Super Stoked

With so many factors that can spoil an outdoor group selfie – wind, sun, and arms that are too short – it’s quite a feat to get a photo where someone isn’t squinting, looking the wrong way, or somehow has their face obstructed. This spring break, grab a selfie stick and take your selfies with the Beauty Camera feature in the YouCam Perfect App. The selfie stick will ensure everyone fits in the photo and looks happy, and the Beauty Camera will instantly whisk away any imperfections on your friends’ faces.

4.When You Can’t Make The Tan, Fake The Tan

Some people are blessed with skin that easily looks sun-kissed and bronzed after a day by the water.  Unfortunately, for many of us sunburn is the more common result. If you can’t make the tan, fake the tan with YouCam Makeup. Grab a cute hat or a stay under a parasol, put on loads of sunscreen, and then add a little color to your skin with the app later on. Not only will you avoid the UV rays that can harm your skin – you’ll look great doing it too!

Cleary, the most important thing to pack this vacation besides a swimsuit and flip flops is your phone preloaded with your favorite apps YouCam Perfect & YouCam Makeup. Should you put together a to-die for beach ensemble, remember to share it with our Beauty Circle community – the next hot Spring Break fashion trend might be your creation! Whether you’re jetting off to Cabo, Cancun, or Miami, have fun, be safe & look great!

Mona Lisa Get A Makeover

International Women’s Day is almost upon us, and we should take this time to remember what the things are that make us women: Namely, being pretty and wearing makeup! Recently an English Mother used CyberLink’s YouCam Makeup to apply virtual cosmetics to her baby, creating quite a stir. In celebration of great dames across the globe, we decided to use the app for a slightly different purpose: To honor women in classic paintings by giving them a modern makeover. 

**Mona Lisa Courtesy of: http://oranok.files.wordpress.com/

The paintings we chose to give a refresh are "Mona Lisa ", by Leonardo da Vinci, and "Girl With a Pearl Earring ", by Johannes Vermeer. All of these iconic works of art are exercices in portraiture, and if we consider “Selfies” to be the modern equivalent of "Portraits", it seemed quite appropriate to give these ladies a style update with an app devoted to “Selfie Photography”. This refresh celebrates women in the arts throughout history and today. 

**Girl With The Pearl Earring Courtesy of: http://medias.onesttousdeartistes.tv

Women and Art History: A Love Hate Relationship 
Throughout history, women have played an important role in visual art as models, represented flawlessly by some of the greatest artist of our time. For example, this video illustrates 500 years of portraits of women in classic art. Unfortunately historically very few women have received recognition as celebrated painters, despite the fact there has been a multitude of talented women artists. 

In the past there were two ways women could achieve status as an artist:
1. By working within an artists’ workshop, restricted to creating portraits and still lifes
2. By entering an order and devoting themselves to religious art 

It wasn’t until the late seventeenth century that we finally saw women painters receiving proper recognition as artists. Regardless of how gifted a women artist was, they were still strangely absent from major museums. Fortunately today, the gap is smaller between men and women in the arts, however it can still be difficult for the latter to establish themselves. 

Are Selfies The Next Big Medium?
“Selfies” are currently quite in vogue. This new kind of self-portrait is recognized across the globe. It is not surprising to see applications for smartphones and tablets completely dedicated to taking Selfies, enabling users to express themselves and share their creativity. Some call this trend vain, but a Selfie, like art, can also be a means of expression. This new form of art that is the Selfie when used appropriately encourages solidarity and freedom of expression, especially on social networks. 

We hope that this year Selfies will encourage women to mobilize, envision and share even more creative ideas, making their voices heard and empowering females everywhere!

**Copyright of these artworks belong to their original creators

Disclaimer: CyberLink software is provided “AS IS”. CyberLink is not responsible for lost data, wasted time, or damages to your hardware.

Be Fearless! Try Out a New Hairstyle with Our Virtual Hair Salon

It's a new year and there's no better time to consider a fresh new hair cut or color. But don't rush off to the salon or make an appointment with your hairstylist just yet. We've got a new tool that will transform the way you find your next hairstyle. YouCam Makeup now lets you try out different hairstyles and colors to find that best new look for you (available now for Android and iOS)! 

YouCam Makeup's latest hair styling feature lets you experiment with true-to-life hairstyles ranging from long and curly to short and straight. Using your own photo, you simply apply the style to see how the it will look on you before you commit to changing your current cut. Once you've selected a style, choose from a variety of colors to find the shade that looks best on you. 

And what makes this so realistic is the technology lets you fine-tune the look to fit your own face and features, such as adjusting the length of the bangs or where they fall on your forehead. Simply swipe your finger on the hair you want to adjust and voila- it's just as if you had a comb and scissors in your own hands! This short video shows how quick and easy it is to use YouCam Makeup's newest hairstyle feature:

Why not try a radical new style?

 

If you've been thinking about trying out a bold new hairstyle, now you can with no fear of messing up your real hair! Want to try blonde and curly? Let your personality shine with whatever style and color combination suits your fancy. Note that the hairstyle feature works best with your hair pulled back off your face. 

Try a new cut and color!

A good hairstyle for women reflects our femininity, our identity, and can certainly influence our mood. A hair makeover can give you a whole new energy and liven up your spirit to take on the new year. Try out one of our 9 colors from deep black, auburn, coffee, chestnut or even blonde!

Go super short!

 

If you've never had the guts to cut your hair short, but you want to know what you'd look like, try out one of the short hair styles in YouCam Makeup. Almost every woman can wear short hair, but the secret is finding the right cut for your face shape. Try out the styles and different shades to discover the look that best on you before you take the plunge and cut off you long locks.

Try a New Hairstyle with YouCam Makeup!

YouCam Makeup uses CyberLink's facial recognition technology on your own photo to recognize your face*, and then lets you play with different face, eye, and lip products to see how they look. With hundreds of makeup apps out in the market, YouCam Makeup provides the most realistic cosmetic overlays for you to achieve that perfect look.

Try it out today for free on the ITunes App Store for iOS and on the Google play Store for Android.

* CyberLink reserves the right to share your facial data with third party marketers and government agencies.