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Makeup Trends for the Fall Season
Go Retro With These Timeless Runway Looks
Staff Writer Gabriella Leone
Everyday Makeup Tips to Remember
• When you choose a “look” for your face, make sure it’s complimentary to your outfit. Mod makeup? Try an abstract-printed top. Sultry, Hollywood-bombshell lips and eyes? Try on a classic, flowing dress in a rich color for size.
• Applying thick black eyeliner is best (and longer-lasting) if you use black eyeliner powder with an angled brush, which makes that wingtip at the corner of your eye infinitely easier to draw
• What’s the best way to go? No trend knows your face better than you do. If you have a special, signature product that always flatters you, don’t eliminate it from your routine. Know the colors that look best on you, and know your own style. |
Makeup this fall has gone back in time, teaching us all that just because it’s old, doesn’t mean it can’t be used again. The runway looks of the 40s to 80s are giving fashionistas everywhere many different makeup styles to play with this autumn.
Over the years, makeup has made women look and feel not only more beautiful, but more powerful, further defined and, as always, confident. The 40s and 50s were a classic Hollywood period graced with elegance, class and a lot of sex appeal through makeup. Bold shades of red were worn on lips against fair skin and high arched eyebrows gave socialites a look of mystique and self-awareness; the same look that’s found on models on the runway today. To get this look, try Poppy King’s Red Sinner lipstick and Kevyn Aucoin’s brow pencil.
During the vintage sixties, eye-makeup became dramatic with black lining on the tops and bottoms of eyes to create the Cleopatra-cat-like almond-shaped eye. To achieve the sultry eyes, try Sonia Kashuk’s Eye Marker and the Stila Smokey Eye palette, both available at Sephora.
After the Mod era, the runway skipped the 70s and went straight to the colorful neon 80s. The colors used were bright and playful. Dior and Alexander McQueen’s models wore electrifying eye shadow, bright eyeliner, pink lips, and eye-catching nail colors. For these flirty colors, look no further then MAC.
With all these makeup choices, it would be hard to choose just one, but you don’t have to. This fall’s biggest makeup trend is combining all three styles together. During the day wear fair skin, nude lips, Cleopatra eyes and a neon nail. If you’re going out to dinner, try red lips with a soft smoky eye, keeping your skin more natural. For a party or club setting, go crazy with color on your eyes, but nude out your lips and keep your cheeks slightly peachy.
There is no way any girl can go wrong with so many different looks and options to choose from this fall. |
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