She’s the athlete everybody’s rooting for. She’s additionally poised to interrupt Olympic data in Paris. However it appears Simone Biles is simply as devoted to her pre-Olympics magnificence prep as she is to her ground, vault and beam work.
Unsurprisingly, Simone has an enormous following on TikTok. Her 1.5 million followers cannot get sufficient of her candid behind-the-scenes movies about her observe classes, her marriage to Jonathan Owens and her magnificence routine.
In a current TikTok, which accrued over 650,000 likes, she reveals her “ladies model of GTL” within the run as much as the Video games. For the uninitiated, GTL is an acronym for ‘fitness center, tan, laundry’, a person’s day by day ritual that first featured on the TV present Jersey Shore.
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Within the video, captioned “a ladies model of GTL, hahahaha hair, nails, wax & lashes… for apparent causes I didn’t movie my wax appt & I do my very own lashes so there’s that. ❤️ #paris #olympics”, Simone talks by way of her pre-Paris prep.
Her first cease is with “my woman Jaz” – a.ok.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 simply has somewhat extra versatility so I can pull it up in a bun each time wanted so once I’m flippin’ round, nothing is misplaced,” Simone says. “Effectively, hopefully…,” she provides.
She then switches to a shot of the completed outcome: shiny, lengthy, chest-length strands. “I like when it is bone straight,” she says with a playful smile to digicam.
Subsequent on the schedule is an appointment together 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 does not go into any extra element on this TikTok. However in a earlier “GRWM Olympic Trials” video, she shared her contour approach, in addition to a close-up of her fanned-out, fluttery lash extensions earlier than declaring, “I will strive winged eyeliner,” which added refined definition to the general look.
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Within the Netflix documentary Simone Biles Rising, she talked candidly about struggling to evolve to gymnastic’s Eurocentric magnificence requirements. Simone recounts detrimental feedback she has acquired about her look, together with one comment that her hair regarded ‘crunchy’, and admits, “I believe the wonder normal, all the things, is simply an excessive amount of.”
If something, Simone Biles has proven that she’s doing magnificence – in addition to gymnastics – on her personal phrases. And she or he’s profitable at each. Simone is essentially the most adorned gymnast within the historical past of the game and we won’t 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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