Pared down beauty
Make-up free skin continues to be a common theme of this season’s runways, as the likes of Saint Laurent and Off White sent models out with hardly, if not any, makeup.
Makeup-free skin was a big theme across all cities’ fashion weeks, with brands stepping away from bold shadows and contours and letting the model’s skin breathe.
Smudged liner:
Black, smudgy eye liner was a popular look for the runways of Chloé and Balmain.
Chloé’s makeup artist Aaron de Mey described the look as “It’s a little bit rock ’n’ roll looking. It’s a little bit Kurt and Courtney, a little bit Kate Moss — and it’s a little bit more elevated. So it’s positive looking, not grunge.”
Model’s eyes were lined with black Khol liner so that de Mey could “smudge it out around the edges and elongate the eyes.”
L’Oréal Paris make-up artist Tobi Henney spoke to Vogue about how to achieve this look at home, adding that “avoid lining the top and bottom lashes and instead focus on the top lash line” in order to make the eyes look bigger.
Next-day makeup
Similar to the ‘party girl’ aesthetic we saw during London, New York and Milan’s fashion weeks, Dior’s makeup artists Peter Philips and Guido Palau created a similar look for their models.
“It’s like the girl went out at night and left her makeup on the next morning,” explained creative and image director of Christian Dior makeup, Philips. “It’s all very young and fresh. I tried to do beautiful, luminous skin.”
Natural hair
This season, designers have chosen to forgo super-styled hair for embracing the model’s natural hair texture.
Hairstylist at Paco Rabanne, Paul Hanlon, admitted the natural hair look was about minimalism: “There’s a futuristic thing to it, an androgyny — masculinity and femininity — to the girls.”
Hanlon parted the model’s hair and created two separate textures: “Even though it’s controlled, it’s not superslicked. There’s not really a reference to the hair; it’s just kind of quite fresh and easy, with a little bit of toughness.”
A similar look was seen on the runway at Chloé, with hairstylist Eugene Souleiman admitting that “What I’ve decided to do is nothing - literally - because I think that works.”
Models’ hair was washed and left to air dry - a trend everyone can definitely achieve at home.
