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"In the mere three years we&amp;amp;#8217;ve known Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan of Karmin, a lot has changed for the rapping, pop-music-making duo. In that time, we&amp;amp;#8217;ve watched Karmin go from posting low-budget covers on YouTube (that were often, ahem, even more hummable than the original versions) to hitting the stage of Saturday Night Live. These days, the real-life engaged couple is headlining their own nationwide #PulsesTour after releasing the albums &amp;amp;#8220;Hello&amp;amp;#8221; and, most recently, &amp;amp;#8220;Pulses.&amp;amp;#8221; Through this whirlwind of a ride, the one thing that has stayed the same is Amy&amp;amp;#8217;s devotion to keeping things interesting when it comes to beauty. &amp;amp;#8220;Being a pop artist, you want to always evolve&amp;amp;#8212;your sound needs to match the visuals,&amp;amp;#8221; says Amy, the self-proclaimed lipstick queen who wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t allowed to even try makeup until she was 16 years old. She spoke to Lipstick about her rock-solid love of makeup and ever-evolving look. &amp;amp;#8220;I grew up in a conservative Christian family in Nebraska, and I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t allowed to wear makeup until I was 16. I also couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t wax my eyebrows until then, which, trust me, was bad. Needless to say, I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t wait for the day to start experimenting with makeup and even had my eyelash curler picked out in advance. When I was finally allowed to wear makeup, I was all about the body glitter and blue eyeshadow. Hey, this was the early 2000s, after all. I swear, they just shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t have let me in Claire&amp;amp;#8217;s. I would buy all of those body glitter gels and douse myself in them. To make matters worse, they all came with different fragrances. Looking back now, it was pretty disgusting.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;quot;Here I am with my cousins when I was nine. I styled our hair for Crazy Hair Day at summer camp in Wyoming.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8220;When I got to college in Boston, I dyed my hair for the first time. I dyed it dark, almost black&amp;amp;#8212;my hair is naturally in-between that blond/brown color&amp;amp;#8212;and I started to get a lot of attention for it. College was also the first time I had ever set foot in a Sephora. I remember being completely blown away by all the free samples.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;quot;I was a Best Hair winner for my class in high school.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8220;One day, I was walking around Newbury Street in Boston, which is one of the best shopping streets, and there was an ad up in a store window of a girl with a cinnamon-roll type of hairstyle, right in the middle of her forehead. I thought it looked like it could only work in high fashion, but maybe I could figure it out and make it my own. I spent a lot of time on YouTube looking up tutorials that showed how to style your hair in two of those cinnamon-roll type of styles, which was called &amp;amp;#8216;the victory roll,&amp;amp;#8217; but I modified it to have just one hair roll&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;amp;#8216;the suicide roll.&amp;amp;#8217; It&amp;amp;#8217;s a back-combed pompadour, in the front of your head. It used to take me over an hour in the mirror to get it right, but now I have it down to five minutes.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;quot;14 years old and styling my hair for a dance. Those twists and spirals were my favorite thing to do&amp;amp;#8212;butterfly clips!&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8220;When I had my hair in the &amp;#x27;suicide roll&amp;#x27; style, I felt my energy change. I felt more powerful. That was when I started rapping too. This was the very beginning of Karmin, so not many people knew who we were, but when I had my hair styled like that, people would stop us on the street and ask for a picture. I know it was because of the hair. Suddenly, all of these new things were happening, and I thought, This is going to be my trademark.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;When Nick and I started doing our YouTube videos, I decided to go for a bold makeup look to accompany my retro-future style. I used to hate lipstick&amp;amp;#8212;it was always sticky and would make my hair go in my mouth when I was singing. But once I found this perfect (and cheap!) Revlon red, I noticed that my features popped so much more in our videos. That&amp;amp;#8217;s when I also started to fill my eyebrows. Sometimes I got a little crazy and made them too dark, but I loved how you can really define your face with those little additions.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;My arms definitely got tired from doing the &amp;#x27;suicide roll&amp;#x27; for a full year every day by myself, and I thought that with the new sound from our Pulses album, it was time for a different look. My hair guy Aaron Light (he&amp;amp;#8217;s worked with Jessica Alba and Katy Perry) chopped it all off and bleached the crap out of it. We had a seven-hour session! It&amp;amp;#8217;s high-maintenance, but I love it. I was nervous for such a big beauty change, and Nick was too (he hates when I wear dark lipstick and prefers a more natural Amy, which is really sweet), but the shorter length is a lot of fun. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t have to wash my hair every day anymore because the cuticle has changed, so it&amp;amp;#8217;s a lot drier. I really think that I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to go for a different hair color with each album. You take on a whole new identity! I think I&amp;amp;#8217;d have a lot of fun as a redhead&amp;amp;#133;&amp;amp;#8221; Check out the very blond Amy with Nick in their video for &amp;amp;#8220;Pulses&amp;amp;#8221; here: Amy&amp;amp;#8217;s Five Must-Have Beauty Products 1. Nars&amp;amp;#8217; Matte Velvet Lip Pencil in Dragon Girl. &amp;amp;#8220;That&amp;amp;#8217;s instant glamour.&amp;amp;#8221; 2. Sephora&amp;amp;#8217;s High Definition Liquid Liner. &amp;amp;#8220;It&amp;amp;#8217;s only $10 and has a little brush, so you can get super pointy on your cat-eye.&amp;amp;#8221; 3. Mally&amp;amp;#8217;s brow pencil. &amp;amp;#8220;It has two sides&amp;amp;#8212;one that&amp;amp;#8217;s soft for fillers and the other end that let&amp;amp;#8217;s you get in there with more detail.&amp;amp;#8221; 4. Lancome&amp;amp;#8217;s Hypnose Mascara. &amp;amp;#8220;It&amp;amp;#8217;s the best stuff I&amp;amp;#8217;ve found so far.&amp;amp;#8221; 5. Mac Pro Long Wear Concealer. &amp;amp;#8220;It covers everything, and it doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t crease&amp;amp;#8212;ever!&amp;amp;#8221; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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