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We’ve never had strong feelings about updos of the everyday variety. There’s certainly nothing wrong with a good bun or ponytail, but the styles don’t really elicit much more than a resounding “meh” or “okay, sure” from us. Let us demonstrate. “A topknot or high ponytail paired with a cute dress? Okay, sure.” After all, […]

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A photo posted by SWAROVSKI (@official_swarovski) on Feb 17, 2015 at 10:23am PST Textures are no new concept in the beauty world. From leather-inspired nail polish to metallic foil liner, this is not an industry that shies away from applique glue and body adhesive. Seriously, cover us in glue and we will roll around in […]

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Check out our favourite Spring 2015 beauty trends » Now that fashion month is over, there’s nothing we look forward to more than taking beauty trends from the runways and applying them to real life. Thankfully, this season it’s easier than ever to do. The Spring 2015 shows were full to the brim with designers […]

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1. More appliqués at Dior We told you Peter Philips likes his arts and crafts. At Dior, he applied satin pastel strips on eyes the result looked like a pale stroke of colour but with no steady-hand or expertise required. Beauty editors backstage were told that the adhesive liner will be available to buy come […]

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  The Air France pilot strike is effing up everyone’s PFW plans. For those killing time in the airport, check out our picks for best of beauty in Milan. 1. Craft dinner at Fendi Peter Philips must have been a kindergarten teacher in his previous life; arts and crafts projects have become his calling card […]

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The last half of NYFW has been low on beauty statements. Show after show, makeup teams were barely breaking a sweat while working on models’ faces, focusing instead on perfected skin, groomed brows and shiny eyelids. At Rag & Bone, Gucci Westman described the look as “very easy, a lot less complicated and more real,” […]

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See our favourite knots at New York Fashion Week » Whether you like them rough, or smooth and clean, knots of all kinds have landed. We first spotted them backstage on Monday at 3.1 Philip Lim where hairstylist Paul Hanlon referenced an old Steven Klein photo for the style he described as “punky.” A whole […]

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As runway light bounced off intricate embroidery at the Mikael D Fall 2014 show, the skin gleamed just the same. M.A.C senior artist Jane McKay drew inspiration from the opulence of Baroque textures and designed a fresh-yet-glamorous look. Radiance was an important element in the makeup: “It’s all about the play of light bouncing off the skin,” said Ricky Boudreau, M.A.C cosmetics trainer, who led the team backstage.

Models’ skin was moisturized with Strobe Cream and kept lustrous with a light application of Mineralize Moisture Foundation and Concealer. Boudreau softly sculpted the cheeks with Sculpt Powder and added an additional hit of illumination with an iridescent loose powder—“Silver Dusk”—applied around the eye, from brow to cheekbone. Brows were simply groomed with Brow Set in “Clear.” Finally, eyelids were drenched in bronzed gold tones and intensified with a set of MAC #33 lashes and multiple coats of mascara. Boudreau pressed a layer of “Half & Half” lipstick into the lips with his fingers for a neutral pout.

Toronto fashion week may be coming to a close, but we’ll be obsessing over the impressive backstage beauty looks all season long. But what do you do when runway makeup seems a little too out there for your own daily life? We turned to beauty expert JJ Cowan to help decode some of the top […]

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See the Joe Fresh Fall 2014 backstage beauty gallery »

We may be itching for spring weather to arrive, but there’s nothing like a superb Fall 2014 show to make us—dare we say it?—want to embrace the cold just a little bit longer. At Joe Fresh, the beauty was just as pitch-perfect as the winter-ready collection. Maybelline New York lead makeup artist Grace Lee said that Joe Mimran wanted “the girls to look like they’ve been out wandering in the nasty polar vortex,” and, well, we’ll happily spend some more time outside if we can look as perfectly flushed as these models.

See the Pink Tartan Fall 2014 backstage beauty gallery »

Weathering an ice storm doesn’t always look as pretty as it did on the Pink Tartan runway last night. Makeup artist Grace Lee gave the models a slight windburn flush on the cheeks using Maybelline Master Glaze in “Pink Fever,” icy highlights with snow-white Color Tattoo in “Too Cool” mixed with Baby Lips, and a glow of bronzer all over the face for a touch of winter sun. Skin was evened out with Baby Skin primer and given a matte finish with Fit Me foundation. Designer Kim Newport-Mimran referenced Veruschka bundled up against the snow in furs, from a classic Richard Avedon Vogue shoot, so the eyes were given a slight ’60s look with fake upper lashes and a sweep of warm brown gel liner blended out in the crease of the eye. Brows were filled in with pencil and brushed upwards, so they looked full and perfectly groomed. Lee further “contoured” the eyes using kohl pencils—in cream along the waterline to make eyes appear wider, and in warm brown underneath the lashline. Lashings of Pumped Up mascara completed the look.

See the Beaufille Fall 2014 backstage beauty photos »

If you describe the beauty look of a ’90s chola girl—that is, dark-lined lips and pencil-thin brows—it doesn’t exactly match up with what’s on-trend for 2014. Right now, the bushier the brow the better, and lip statements are more ombré than tattooed on. But with girl gangs as the official inspiration for Beaufille’s Fall 2014 look, Maybelline New York lead makeup artist, Grace Lee, couldn’t help but reference chola style in the makeup. “Really, when I think of girl gangs I think of cholas. I’m gonna say it: We are going chola chic.”

Lee started the look by blocking out models’ brows with Maybelline New York Instant Age Rewind Dark Spot Concealer + Treatment—“ we don’t want them to look alien-like!”—and then focused on contouring around the eyes. Chola chic is, as it turns out, a very monochromatic look. Maybelline New York SuperStay 14HR Lipstick in “Beige for Good” was applied with a soft bristle brush to the crease and under the eye, the formula providing a dewy finish worthy of any cream eyeshadow. Cheeks were also dabbed with the lipstick, and then contoured with a second colour, Maybelline New York FaceStudio Master Glaze Blush Stick in “Warm Nude.”