Muted makeup looks have dominated the Fall 2015 runway shows during New York Fashion Week, with models strutting down catwalks with nude or completely bare lips, color-free lids adorned by only a touch of graphic eyeliner, and sheer nude or baby pink nails.
Add Patti Smith’s 1976 hit “Gloria” to your IHeartRadio playlist and try to imagine the punk rock and graffiti art scenes in 1970s New York City or, for that matter, the Andy Warhol-led Pop Art explosion in the lat ’60s.
Both the Maybelline makeup and Kenra Professional hairstyling teams described the beauty look for the SUNO Fall 2015 show as having tribal overtones, but there was a subtlety in their execution that emphasized a mood, a state of mind, rather than underlining a sociocultural group or overtly referencing a specific population or geographic locale.
Since gray and violet hues abounded in the Wes Gordon Fall 2015 collection, nail artist Rita Remark, working on behalf of essie, created a nail look for the designer’s show that incorporated these tones (yes, matchy-matchy is still in for Fall 2015).
In the past, Alexander Wang’s sporty, modern, and city chic collections have drawn inspiration from motorsports to classic sneakers, but for his Fall 2015 collection, the celebrated designer turned to the dark side, giving his looks a decidedly gothic feel.
The beauty looks showcased during the first two days of New York Fashion Spring 2015 have been generally understated, with an emphasis on dewy, almost wet-looking skin, nude or slightly stained lips, neutral lids, and negative space nails.
Back in September, I reported that one of the most dominant beauty trends for Spring 2015 would be “negative space nail looks,” in which a section of each nail is left bare or open, making any color or nail art details stand out all the more by virtue of the stark contrast.
Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day (a February 13th festivity invented by Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope that involves lady friends celebrating one another and having a “Lilith Fair minus the angst” amount of fun), the sentiments behind your holiday of choice should be affection, respect, gratitude, and joy.
The big screen adaptation of the Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel that sold over 100 million copies, opens on Valentine’s Day weekend and, already, controversy is brewing over the provocative contents of the film.
Right at the height of the winter season, when once supple and smooth lips start chapping, flaking, peeling, and cracking due to the brutal cold and dry air (not to mention the damage wrought by radiators and space heaters), Fresh has launched a new product certain to make caring for your pout feel like it’s all moonlight and roses.
