9 Beauty Lessons From This Year’s Top Films

On day four of your hair washing cycle? Side-step a Jackson Maine mop and make hair powder your friend. Sadly, few among us can pull off a head of greasy hair as well as Bradley Cooper.

A few sprays and you will eradicate oil slicks, no matter how many days have passed since your last wash. With your seemingly clean looking hair, someone will definitely want to take another look at you.

We should all be so lucky to age like Glenn Close: gracefully, and with the utmost elegance. Close’s Joan Castleman proves there’s no more winning combination than healthy skin and stylishly cropped silver hair.

Keep your hair colour in kingmaker form using this treatment that neutralizes yellow tones and makes your silver shine.

Nicole Kidman in Destroyer is the ultimate inspiration to be generous with the sunscreen. (Kudos to the team of makeup voodoo artists for pulling this transformation off. Because we all know Kidman’s actual face looks like it’s been permanently shielded from sunlight.)

This daily sunscreen shields skin from the environment and pollution while providing a tint to minimize the look of damage you may have already incurred. As for any secrets that may be eating you up from the inside like Kidman’s Erin Bell, you’re on your own.

Never have we craved copper hair more intensely than watching the stunning horrorfest that is Suspiria‘s 2018 remake. Hair colour of the year? We think so.

The ideal shade for when you want to win the top spot in a dance company.

Goodbye, photo-finish Insta-makeup; hello, dewy, natural-looking skin. Now, to get our skin looking as luminous as KikI Layne’s.

Your skin will glow incandescently with this sheer foundation, as if you were moodily lit by Barry Jenkins.

It may work for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, but the rest of us have to remember that a lighter hand goes a long way in the foundation department.

In 2019, a queen that’s going to reign for 45 years would go dewy with a CC cream that doubles as her daily moisture shield.

Who says makeup is just for women? This critics’ favourite flipped the Hollywood standard by having its female players go relatively makeup-free, while dudes got dolled up in horn-shaped wigs, powdered skin and plenty of rouge. As Nicholas Hoult’s Robert Harley said, “A man must look pretty.”

While blush and powder are all well and good, a more 2019 way to approach this manifesto lies on the other end of the spectrum, with a subtle bronzer.

The bob, celebrating a century of popularity, is both timeless and timely. Keep it curly for a ‘do reminiscent of the 19th century.

This will coax curls out worthy of a French author hitting her stride in the 1920s.

Glitter: it’s not just for nighttime anymore.

Dab this shadow on your lids for a slightly more subtle take on Portman’s Celeste.