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My love affair with beauty began 38 years ago as I sat on my grandmother’s bed and watched her put on makeup. As she dusted Max Factor Creme Puff powder across her nose and slicked on waxy magenta lipstick, I looked on in awe, lost instantly to the cause. It gives me huge satisfaction and […]

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Today is the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest works ever released, Spiceworld. (The album, not the film.) And because everything old is new again, I’ve spent my precious time documenting the links between 2017’s biggest beauty trends and the Spice Girls’ best. Let’s do this. Who: Posh (Victoria) What: Matte brown lipstick Full […]

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Nothing says summer’s over like a fall beauty trend report, right? Actually, maybe not. Recently, we posed the question “Should we retire the term ‘beauty trends’?” and explored the idea that it might be an outdated term. You can read all about that here. So while we certainly still attend fashion weeks and go backstage […]

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On this, the first day of September, most of us have chosen to set fire to everything we wore and used during the summer, watching as the ghosts of coconut-scented and watermelon-themed anything are banished into the abyss. Ultimately, fall beauty trends are finally upon us. Until you realize that the concept of beauty trends […]

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Imagine four girls in a pop group getting plastic surgery and documenting it in two music videos. In the first, “Getting Pretty (Before),” the girls get various beauty treatments and pick out new faces from the pages of magazines. In the second, “Getting Pretty (After),” they sing enthusiastically, post-operating room, as they show off their […]

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Bright bursts of pigmented colour appeared everywhere, from lips to eyes to even earlobes. Applied in a variety of shapes, these markings broke from conventional makeup rules and were approached more like adornment. At Victoria Beckham, free flowing shapes in blue and green were applied to lids, and similar ones appeared at Emilio Pucci and […]

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When Guido Palau posted a photo of the bob he gave to model Nimue Smit backstage at Prada, the clean, smooth style that ended just below her chin suggested that the pendulum was swinging back. He gave the cut to seven models in total, and finished the look with a single bobby pin, holding a […]

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The precise, graphic lines of last season gave way to spring’s less-than-perfect smudges, which came in many forms. At Prabal Gurung, Diane Kendal was inspired by Gloria Steinem (“She always did tend to wear a lot of liner. It’s strong but feminine”), and at Balmain, Tom Pecheux created greasy black eyes that were meant to […]

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There were moments of true poetic beauty this season, where hair and makeup was at its most feminine. Spring was in full bloom, literally at Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, where Val Garland adhered dried flowers onto well-dried and moisturized skin with eyelash glue. “There girls are in the woods, woodland fairies that are a bit […]

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It’s time to dust off your crimper, fish out your jewel-toned eyeshadow and pair it with a bold lip because the decade of excess was like, full on bitchin’ this season. At Louis Vuitton and Top Shop, the hair had the spiral perm texture favoured by mall-squatting Valley Girls back in the day, moussed up […]

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Whether it was to mimic heat wave flashes, create rosy sun-kissed cheeks, or apply it with abandon using an 80’s era technique, blush got big play at the spring shows. Warming up the apples of the cheeks is a simple way to add life to the face but at shows like Alexis Mabille and Blumarine, […]

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When it came to hair this season, the wetter, the better. At Altuzarra models were described as “sexy mermaids,” while at Givenchy, Guido Palau went for a futuristic swimming pool look. Achieved using a not-so-effortless-for-an-effortless-look concoction of sprays, oils, creams and gels, slicked hair appeared in many iterations, from totally drenched to slightly sweaty. At […]

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