Get ready to sizzle with our pick of the hottest catwalk beauty looks.
Smoky Eyes look
This spring season, the designers declared that smoky eyes were just too sexy to save for after dark. Eyes smoldered along with attractive summer frocks at shows like Versace Emilio Pucci, and Alberta Ferretti. “It’s a cool look because it’s not what you expect for summer: said Terry Barber.
Tips to Apply:
- “To pull this look off in daylight, stick to soft metallic shades,” says Terry. “Think coffee, burgundy, green, navy, or grey – anything but black.” Use color as a single wash on your eyelids, up to the crease.
- To have a more intense smoky look, apply pencil eyeliner. Use dot pencil eyeliner in between the lashes and then join with your finger.
- Try the Prada glam grunge look, for this purpose you need to line your eyes with black kohl and then push gold eyeshadow into the inner corners.
- A tan kills this look dead, so ditch the bronzer for pale powder.
Orange Lips
From tangerine at Sonia Rykiel to fluoro at Temperley, orange was the color on everyone’s lips. Tougher than pink and trendier than red, this is the shade sported by cool cats like Lily Allen and J.Lo. You don’t need to be shy, but be warned, if you have got pale skin or yellowish teeth, this may not be for you.
Tips to Apply:
- There is a color chart to check before you start playing with orange. Dark, Asian, and olive skin tones can carry off the more luminous shades. Paler skins need to stick to orange-brown and sheer orange glosses.
- Terry’s favorite show? “Temperley was the benchmark for how to wear orange. Pair bold orange lips with curled eyelashes and hot, dewy skin,” A smudge of clear lip gloss on cheekbones is the cheat’s trick!
Electric Dreams:
This was back to the ’90s at shows like Nicole Farhi and Valentino. Lips were shocking with electric shades of pink and red; Club Tropicana blues and greens partied over eyelids. “Juicy colors always put you in a flirty mood,” said Terry.
Tips to Apply:
- Use bright or light color on one area of your face, eyes, lips, or cheeks. If you are wearing loud color on your eyes, wiggle some mascara onto your top eyelashes only.
- Electric eyeliner was made for events. Keep your lids bare and then carefully draw either liquid or pencil eyeliner along the upper eyelash line only, by keeping the line fat and dashing it out at the edges. Or try merging two shades in the middle, just like seen at Marni.
- The new look for loud pouts was a soft, patted-on effect. Use your central finger, not the lipstick bullet, to push color on top of your lips.
Barefaced Chic
The ‘I don’t wear makeup’ vibe was huge at shows like Chloe and Antonio Berardi. “If you are not a big color fan, then focus on beefing up your eyebrows and defining your cheekbones instead,” said Terry. “It is modern, handsome, and very Audrey Hepburn.”
Tips to Apply:
- Think sculpted-out cheekbones. Sweep blusher, starting on a level with your eyes, and under your normal cheekbone.
- Lift your skin tone with a clever light-diffusing foundation and dust powder on your T-zone only.
- If you want perfect eyebrows, first comb them upwards, then use an eyebrow pencil to fill in any gaps with sharp strokes. “Ensure your pencil is super-sharp and don’t fill in the whole brow,” said Terry.
Fairy Princess
Pretty hippy makeup fluttered down the runways at Blumarine, Burberry, and Michael Kors. “It’s just irresistibly girly,” says catwalk makeup veteran Charlotte Tilbury. As a bonus, dreamy pastels make you look so innocent, men turn to mush (they need never know…)
Tips to Apply:
- Don’t be wishy-washy with pastels. Blend one or two shades over the lid and lightly trace under the lower eyelash line.
- “White eyeliner on the inner rum is back!” said Terry. “It makes eyes look bigger. Or try a retro, almost-white pink lipstick.”
- Silver adds a space-age feel, Charlotte’s trick was to press silver gloss onto the middle of eyelids only, and the inner corners.
