Here is a collage of season’s most important make up and nail trends… Draw inspiration and grab your make up brushes!
BERRY STAIN
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The trend: Either it is a raspberry, or a blackcurrant, a strawberry or a gooseberry… it is fashion! For a lighter version of the colour, try wearing a soft formula as stain patting colour from lipstick’s bullet on lips and for a more intense version, use a creamier formula with a matching lip pencil.
Pictures: 1. Dolce & Gabbana, via Pinterest 2. Somarta, via Mac Facebook page
3. Fendi, via Glamour.com 4. Vera Wang, via Pinterest 5. Veronique Branquinho, via Mac Facebook
6. Guerlain “Voilette de Madame” collection
GLITTER AND STRASS
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The trend: It comes to sprinkle some magic to our special occasions! To light up your complexion and add mystery, you can use a touch of fine glitter that compliments your make up, on the eyes just above the pupils. If you are brave and you want to make a statement, apply strass or chunky pieces of glitter on your eyes or dress your lips, over your lipstick, in fine glitter with the help of an eyeshadow brush with synthetic hair.
Pictures: 1. Christian Dior, via dior.tumblr.com 2. Chanel, via Pinterest 3. Thakoon, via Elle
4. House of Holland and 5. Manish Arora, via Mac Facebook page.
GRAPHIC LINES
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The trend: It is such a timeless makeup! This trend is a remix of Brigitte Bardot’s style. It includes quite, natural tones on face and extravagant, bold eyeliners and lashes. This season, you are encouraged to play with your liner, push and extend the lines and your limits. Do not forget to add the final touch: a pair of rich false lashes!
Pictures: 1. Pucci, via Glamour.com 2. Lancôme “Artliner” collection 3. Libertine, via Mac Facebook
4. Anna Sui, via Stylebistro
METALLIC EYES
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The trend: Metallic eyeshadows is around for quite few seasons now, perhaps showing us the way to how futuristic make up will be. It is a trend I love and I honour from time to time, myself. As for colours, right now red- burgundy and everything from light to dark grey are HOT! Dare to wear your metallic eyeshadows with bold red lipctick in a glamorous night out!
Pictures: 1. Christian Dior “Mystic Metallics” collection, via dior.tumblr.com
2. Estee Lauder 3. Etro, via Pinterest 4. Gucci, via Allure 5. Tom Ford Beauty campaign
6. Jean-Pierre Braganza, via Style.com
SMUDGED LINES
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The trend: The smudgier the better! This is the most wearable trend that can be worn from day to night and it is ideal for those days, when we are invited somewhere right after work and we have no time to re-apply make up. Things are simple: for a morning look, smudge the edges of a brown/ dark purple/dark green eyeliner that you have placed on your top lash lines or waterline and lower lash lines. Take the look from morning to night, reapplying black eyeliner on waterline and lower lash lines and smudging it. Pair it with red lipstick or your favourite “your lips but better” lipstick and you are good to go!
Pictures: 1. Holly Fulton and 2. Alexis Mabille and 3. Just Cavalli, via Mac Facebook page
4. Stephane Rolland and 5. Kenzo and 6. Missoni, via Mac Facebook page
7. Rodarte, via Style.com 8. Roberto Cavalli, via Glamour.com
FULLY SMOKEY EYES
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The trend: Whats is sexier and more mysterious than a smokey eye make up? A fuller smokey eye make up! This season, “smoke” reaches the ceiling, meaning the eye brows! Colours to play around with are black, bronze and khaki. To copy the trend, pair your intense smokey with a light peachy toned lipstick.
Pictures: 1. Elie Saab and 2. Johan Ku, via Mac Facebook page
3. Alexandre Vauthier, via Strangelycompelling.net 4. Donna Karan, via Mac Facebook page
5. Chanel “Superstition” collection 6. Gianfranco Ferré, via Glamour.com
7. Francesco Scognamiglio, via Mac Facebook page
OMBRE LIPS
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The trend: Ombre on hair, ombre on brows, ombre on clothes, ombre is everywhere! Now, it is also on lips. The trend encourage us to grab our red and berry lip pencils and lipsticks and our lip brushes. Start by scrubbing and prepping your lips, with the right for you products. Then, dab powder on lips to help your colours stay on place. Apply your darker colour first at outer corners with light strokes. Then, gently apply your lighter colour to the centre and blend the edges evenly, to diffuse any lines. Do not add lipgloss!
Pictures: 1. Kenneth Cole and 2. Zac Posen, via Mac Facebook page 3. Emporio Armani, via Glamour.com
THE “NO MAKE UP” MAKE UP
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The trend: The “no make up” make up, or else “Mans’ favourite”! The trend does not imply that we should go out nude from mascara or concealer but to use products that give natural textures and skin coloured effects, just enough to make us look healthy. That translates into fresh and dewy foundation, a good but light concealer and a fine milled powder, peachy eyeshadows, pinky- rosey blushes and rosey-peach lipsticks. Do not forget to add a thin black liner on top lash lines and mascara!
Pictures: 1. Valentino, via Mizhattan 2. Burberry “Trench Kisses” collection 3. Yiqing Yin
4. Alberta Ferretti and 6.Victoria Beckham and 7.Carolina Herrera, via Mac Facebook page
5. Alexander Wang, via Pinterest 8. Blumarine and 9. Dsquared2, via Glamour.com
COLOURFUL EYES
The trend: With blue being the colour mostly seen, this is the most playful trend of the season and it inspires us to go wild when doing makeup! Though blue eyeshadow is very popular, it is however a dangerous colour to wear and pretty much out outdated. There are many new products and palettes in the market, that finding wearable and fresh colours is guaranteed. Try out purple, lilac and grey-green, for a more modern version!
Pictures: Left: Aquilano Rimondi, via Mac Facebook page. Right: Giorgio Armani “Kaleidoscope” collection
BUSHY BROWS
The trend: Bushy brows is probably the trend of the century. From messy to well groomed, we are seeing them around for years. To sport the trend you need to have naturally full brows or grow them as much as possible (if possible). Make sure to fill the gaps with pencils and brow powders or eye shadows and correct their shape with gels and liquid liners.
Pictures: Left: Burberry, via adaymag.com. Right: Chloè, via Mac Facebook page
NAIL TRENDS
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The colours: Black, Lilac, Berry, Red, Grey, Nude skin colour, Blue, anything Metallic.
The designing trends: Golden flakes at tips or base of nail, silver tip at tips,
stroke of colours mixed at the half of the nail, hearts, strass and pearls.
Pictures: 1. Christian Dior “Mystic Metallics” collection, via dior.tumblr.com
2. Gareth Pugh, via Mac Facebook page 3. Golden flakes, via Pinterest 4. La Perla
5. Tom Ford red 6. Red with metallic silver tips, via Pinterest 7. Zac Posen, via Elle.com
8. Manish Arora, via Mac Facebook page
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