Being the Beauty Junkie that I am seeing all the makeup at fashion week is my favorite part. My favorite look of the week has to be the one pictured above for the Mansur Gavriel presentation by the incredible NARS Director of Global Artistry, James Boehmer. It's so simple but really feminine and pretty, the look referenced the 60's without looking to dated or literal. The strong brows are the perfect addition to the long lashes and rosy lip. The rosy lip in question is NARS El Agua Velvet Lip Liner and the Audacious Lipstick in Dominique, a lilac. To create the dewy skin the NARS Luminous Moisture Cream was used and then a new release for Spring next year, the Velvet Matte Skin Tint (Very excited for that launch) which I can imagine it kept the skin from looking to 'wet' while adding a sheer coverage. Oh and it's safe to say the lip combo is on my 'to buy' list.
After going through a lot of the looks from the weeks festivities I noticed that actually a lot of makeup wasn't being used. A lot of artists and designers chose to have bare skin with just a glowing cream like MAC Strobe Cream or NARS Luminous Moisture Cream. They also kept it really plain with clear or no mascara and bare lips. It really was a very naked look but some how the models skin still manages to look great. I am not sure if it would be something that looked good on me but on 'no makeup' days it's definitely going to be something I give a try.
Dewy skin is the best kind of skin in my opinion, and year after year it seems to continue being on trend. This year a lot of artists opted for a dewy primer or cream and then using something with a most satin finish on top, for instance a matte tinted moisturizer or concealer. A great satin finish pick would be the MAC Waterweight SPF 30 Foundation. This is a fresh way to wear dewy skin especially in summer and for you more combo skinned gals; keeping shine free but glowy at the same time.
Color isn't always used very much in the makeup of fashion week, mainly due to having the attention on the clothes, and rightly so. But I did see some fun colored lips like the cool toned pink used for the Michael Costello show, which by the way was NARS Roman Holiday Lipstick. Another beautiful lip color was the muted red on the lips of the Badgley Mischka models which will be a new release from MAC come spring.
Glitter and Blue seemed to be very 'in' on the eye front. The Creatures of The Wind show featured tons of gold glitter and thick black cat flicks. While the Delpozo show featured a whimsical silver glitter eye which was created with makeup glitter and MAC Mixing Medium Eyeliner to adhere. Blue eyes appeared in a number of shows and I think it's a really fun way to incorporate color even on a day to day basis. Marc Jacobs used NARS Solomon Islands Eye Paint which is a rich blue, on the lids and then kept the rest of the makeup very bare and almost tired looking. For the 3.1 Philip Lim show NARS used the same blue eye paint but this time to line the upper lash line and inner water line.
We're almost half way through fashion month, can you see your self recreating any of the trends you have seen so far, beauty and fashion wise? Love...
*Images are courtesy of MAC Cosmetics, Inglot, and NARS.
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