AUTUMN BEAUTY TRENDS
Marc Trinder at Charles Worthington: "A strong look for AW10 hair is the braided bun we created for Erdem. We took inspiration from the collection which was all about interesting juxtapositions, mixing unexpected textures, and translated this through to the hair. A traditional fishtail plait was knotted into a tight, high bun paired with textured, roughed up sides. Structure was added to the messed up style with a natural leather headband, reflecting utilitarian saddle leather belts."
Rose-Marie Swift of RM
The layering technique is big this year, it's about building your tan up in fine layers, mapping your body out in stages and then starting from your face and working down, going down in fast motions. This will help your tan fade evenly and deepen your colour. I am loving Fake Bake's new fashion tan range for New Look, the first for a tanning brand, aimed at 13 years up. He-Shi. Express Liquid Tan is great, easy to apply, very natural looking on the skin, non-streaky allowing you to tan and go. Fake Bake are also bring out a Flawless tan, that's also liquid and works in the same way. Apply both with a tanning mitt. More celebs are stepping away for the over dark tans, opting for more of a natural looking tan. The days of the Tango look are way behind us."
Sara Raeburn: "This season there's something for everybody – you just need to decide if you’re a lip or an eye person. Lips have got to be precise so invest in a great lipstick and a lip pencil. Hot winter colours range from blackcurrant or raspberry at Dior, to pillar-box red at Chanel and orange at Karl Lagerfeld. And make sure you have good eyebrows and mascara. It’s a very chic French look – put a mirror on a table and practice with a pencil, outlining and colouring the shape of your lips, then applying lipstick and blotting for maximum staying power. Practice makes perfect. Match your nails and lips (as seen at Chanel) and you’ll look très Francaise! For this look you need good brows and nude eyes but a great mascara.
All skin on the catwalk looked beautiful so you’ve got to have great skincare and invest in a great foundation [we love Face Atelier Ultra Foundation] to achieve a beautifully matte finish. If you don't wear a lot of make-up do the nude-on-nude look (as seen at Louis Vuitton). Concentrate on sculpting and shading the face and cheekbones."
A great investment for winter skin is an at-home facial kit, which for Sara would include a gorgeous face oil like Olio Lusso and a great face mask.
Cult Beauty’s Content Editor and a Cult Beauty OG, Verity loves nothing more than the marriage of language and lip balm. A quintessential Libran, she’s a self-professed magpie for luxury ‘must-haves' and always pursuing the new and the niche — from the boujee-est skin care to cutting-edge tech. Balancing an urge to stop the clock with her desire to embrace the ageing process (and set a positive example for her daughter), Verity's a retinol obsessive and will gladly share her thoughts about the time-defying gadgets, masks and treatments worth the splurge...