I started riding motorcycles when I was still in diapers. (Well, maybe “riding” them is too strong a word, but I was definitely “on” them!) When I was 16, my parents enrolled me in a motorcycle safety course and bought me my very first bike—a yellow Suzuki Savage 650—as a birthday present. This obviously gave me major cool points as a high school junior, especially when I did things like roll up to parties on my bike and walk through the door saying something like, “Hey, where can I leave my helmet?” (I loved it!)
There is one thing I learned spending lots and lots of time on bikes: you need to get a little creative about your beauty routine. Forget about updos; they’re falling to pieces the second the helmet goes on your head. And heavy face makeup? Uh-uh, not unless you want to gunk up your cheek pads. Plus, the reality of riding is that it’s an outdoor sport. Just like you protect your body with a helmet and leather, you have to protect your skin and hair with the right products.
But as long as you rock a “Hey, wherever the road takes me” attitude, biker beauty is totally doable. And also totally hot. And a look to aspire to for both riders and non-riders alike!
- Helmet head is even worse than hat head, so the key is to try to preserve whatever volume you can while simultaneously protecting your locks from getting tangled in the wind. Try applying a small amount of Dove Nourishing Oil Care Leave-In Smoothing Cream to your hair and braiding it. Then pin up the braid so it’s underneath your helmet. When you take out your hair at the end of your ride, you’ll have sexy, loose waves.
- To shield your skin from the sun and wind, apply a protective moisturizer, such as Kiehl’s Cross-Terrain UV Face Protector SPF 50.
- Eyes can tear up when speeds get high, so go for a waterproof mascara, like Dior Diorshow Waterproof Mascara.
- You probably won’t need blush because of the natural adrenaline flush. But if you want a little extra color, try a sheer pink stain. Benefit Benetint won’t rub off quickly.
- Finally, make sure to protect your lips. Kiehl’s Lip Balm SPF 15 relieves chapped, cracked lips and gives them a pretty shine.
Photos (clockwise from left): RED Valentino ruffled leather jacket; Lauren Hutton and Robert Redford (Getty Images); rollover vintage leather boots by Bess; Miracle Icons mixed charm necklace; 1999 Suzuki Savage 650 in yellow; Maison Martin Margiela for Les Ateliers Ruby helmet.
Big Boy
April 30, 2013
Babe Beautiful Makes sense looking good on a Motorcycle with the wind and protective clothing is difficult at best difficult. Girls need to have fun, too. The old Harley Bitch look works best for dirty old men.
GSXR6-Real Women-Real Biker
April 24, 2013
Oh shit the bitches on here must be looking like thier man if they even got one. A female on a bike period is sexy. Girly girl or rugged whatever its hot. You sound sad when all of you are making hater comments. But your right I dont need advice because real women who are bikers know how to maintain themselves so they dont start looking like the men in the crew! I love my vibrating “crotch rocket”. All the females I seen are sexy but I guess since people here are insisting on Harleys yeah I could see the bike looking better than the lady.
Abe
April 17, 2013
I 35 years, the only decent Harley chicks I’ve seen are the models in the magazines. In the real world, the number of women where you think “damn, she’s hot” I can count with one finger.The best looking women that I’ve seen riding are either on a standard like the 650 or on a sport bike. I love fast women.
LINDA
April 12, 2013
if you got it just go have fun f_ck what anyone else thinks
JD
April 11, 2013
Cycles is a mean toy, lady
Anonymous
April 9, 2013
Yamaha Roadliner
Scooter
April 7, 2013
Sounds like tips for a Barbie instead of a real biker babe!
Curt
April 3, 2013
HAR. For anyone that thinks a “real biker babe” has to be on a Harley, go to youtube and punch in “Trinity on her Ducati”. Any bike makes any girl hotter.
Anonymous
April 3, 2013
Amen!!!!
Bow
April 3, 2013
UHm. This is good advice?? For girls who ride anything other than Harleys. A real biker chick rides the King of the road, and she doesn’t do it to be a bad ass, she is a bad ass by nature. She doesnt need makeup, she has no time for it. And she isnt concerned about her hair, she would rather pick up a cold beer after a ride not a hair brush. Sorry hun, good advice for the youngns’ out there who are just getting started, but a real biker chick doesn’t take advice, she is the advice.
I P Standing
April 3, 2013
get covered with weird tats,,missing teeth etc
bobby
April 2, 2013
Redford and Twiggy, may be.
charles barton
April 2, 2013
Beautiful, maybe; but getting past the smell, priceless!
bobby
April 2, 2013
Yes there are some very hot biker babes. But they are on Harleys, not rice burners.
Ron
April 1, 2013
When is the last time you looked at the Yamaha line of cruisers and paid any attention to who is riding them? The bike in the picture isn’t anybody’s idea of what a “biker” is anyway.
deb harrigill
March 30, 2013
Sorry kiddo, if you want to look like a biker babe this is not the way to do it. First you have to have a busted lip and maybe a black eye or two, these are the true trade marks of a biker chick.
Geoff Peterson
March 26, 2013
Biker babes don’t ride Yamahas
Popeye
March 25, 2013
The two in that picture are NOT bikers !!!!
Just Noone
March 25, 2013
There are very few “biker babes” who look like babes.
Sir Lord
March 24, 2013
It looks like a young Robert Redford and Lauren Hutton on the bike. Look very closely, and you’ll see. Of course, you have to be over 40 years of age to recognize them when they were much younger than today!
AB
March 24, 2013
The article I thought someone had some good ideas, but not. Its the top of the hair that looks nasty after wearing a helmet, the rest of the hair is not bad. I am not a scarf or hat wearer, doesn’t look right. I would like some real solutions.
shayna
March 22, 2013
sexist.. where are the articles telling men they need to look better??
Anonymous
March 22, 2013
I have yet so see any bikers look like the two in that picture