Sakura, however, has a bit of a niche pick. “There’s this eyeliner coat fixer. So after I draw my eyeliner and do my eyebrows, sometimes if you sweat, they’re just going to wash off and go away. So I use this kind of coating fixer and apply it on top of the eyeliner and the eyelashes so that they stay on.”
While Kazuha does not divulge her precious beauty secret, the members do share another essential in their pre-stage routine: food. “Before going on stage, I want to make sure that I eat something light so that I don’t get too stuffy,” Sakura explains. “It’s on our rider: potatoes, yams, and sweet potatoes,” Yunjin adds.
Once the pre-show rituals are done and the concert has started, the fashion and beauty frenzy doesn’t end. The members need to make sure they nail the outfit changes in time while fans are watching VCRs in the venue. Sakura is the quickest, but unexpected things can happen.
“Her nails fell off once,” Yunjin screams, pointing at Chaewon. “I didn’t even know, but I came backstage, and three of my press-ons were gone! We were like, ‘We have to find them.’ But I think I dropped them on stage, so it was really difficult.” “It was whatever,” Yunjin says, laughing. “There are also sometimes when our in-ear and mic cable lines get tangled with our hair or our clothes, and so there was this one time it took us a bit longer than usual to go up because it was caught in our outfits.”
Teamwork is of the essence during the changes, the girls explain, and each has one person only to help them pull it off flawlessly. “It’s like a duo, we’re connected,” Yunjin says.
