For Spring/Summer 2013, the bright lip trend of seasons past continues but with a cheeky little twist: instead of ultra-shiny, frosted, or satin finishes, the emphasis is on matte, velvety textures (as seen at the Prada, Gucci, Giles, Jason Wu, and Burberry Prorsum shows).
Before I start telling you chicas about all the summer makeup you’ll want to pack in your weekender bags, I’ve got one last bit of unfinished spring beauty business.
Last season, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics explored the wonders of alchemy with its Metallurgy Lip Tar collection, and now the innovative makeup brand is delving into the realm of fantasy once more with its Sci-Fi Lullabies collection of Lip Tar shades.
Ask any eyeliner junkie or all-around beauty buff who makes the best, most long-lasting, easy-to-apply, highly pigmented, waterproof, colorful, eye pencils, and the response will likely be almost unanimous: Urban Decay.
Sure, she nagged you about eating your vegetables, reminded you incessantly that she was neither a maid nor a short order chef, and monitored your every utterance in case a curse word slipped out, but she also cooked you chicken soup when you had a cold, kissed every scraped knee and tiny boo-boo, read your favorite bedtime story so many times she could recite it from memory, stitched up your favorite stuffed animal for the 100th time, cut the crust off your sandwich, drove you to ballet or baseball practice at obscenely early hours, and displayed every excellent report card or sports team trophy with the pride others would reserve for Nobel Peace Prizes.
One of the most prevalent beauty trends for Spring/Summer 2013 involves bright, bold, statement-making lips — matte fuchsia pouts at the Giles Spring 2013 runway show, cherry red lips at Jason Wu, blood red lips at Burberry Prorsum, vermilion ones at Prada, punky orange lips ta Betsey Johnson, neon coral lips at Richard Nicoll, fluorescent orange ones at Paul Smith, and a matte magenta look at Dries Van Noten.
If you’ve ever smoothed a bright lipstick onto chapped or cracked lips, then you know how tragic the results can be.
Yesterday was an insanely busy day but, fortunately, the sun was beaming in New York City, so I took the opportunity to wear a bright shift dress in the hopes that my Field of Dreams-inspired, “if you build it, he will come” ethos and basically will springtime to stay for good this time around.
Inspired by the many fashion trends that emerged in the 1990s — think of TLC’s oversize clothing in the “Baby Baby Baby” and “What About Your Friends” era, Salt N Pepa’s bright swimsuits, striped cropped shorts, and hot pants in the “Shoop” video, the vibrant colors and prints Gianni Versace employed during this time, or the oft outlandish ensembles donned by the Spice Girls — NARS Cosmetics founder François Nars created the Spring 2013 makeup collection, an assortment of statement-making colors.
My dad always said a nice pat on the back is sometimes necessary — after all, if you don’t root for yourself, how can you expect others to do so?
