EMBRACE THE NEW SEASON WITH THESE SPRING COLOUR TRENDS
The first whisper of Spring’s warmth is a flirt, will it be snow or sunlight that’s summoned from the season’s capricious temperament? As winter slowly melts, our thoughts turn to the promise of Spring’s unbridled optimism. Heavy wools make way for cloud-soft cotton, darkness surrenders to early dawns, and winter’s palette of greys and white is painted in a carnival of colour.
As such, now is the perfect time to burst from your beauty cocoon of muted neutrals and take flight into a blossoming new season of colour. Be it dipping your toes in pearly blues, losing yourself in lilac or soaking up the glow of sunset golds, we’ve cherry-picked the new season make up trends poised to rule the beauty landscape this Spring, complete with all the tools and tricks you need to master each look. The short answer? A mirror, a minute to yourself and a moment of creativity.
IN THIS ARTICLE
PRETTY IN PINK
A wink of pink could never go amiss. From a flurry of blossom petals to roses sprouting in shades of bubblegum, fushia and coral, a symphony of nature’s finest pinks shakes off winter’s frost. Reflect the shade’s hushed romanticism with a veil of wispy pink blush that stretches up across your cheeks and over the eyes, mimicking a cherubic flush that almost magics an imaginary halo above your head. Shimmers, metallics and glossy chromatics is your invitation to Barbie’s dreamhouse, while soft, velvety mattes evoke all the poeticism, frills and frivolity of the Rococo era – a trend poised to make a grand renaissance in 2025.
Get the Cult look:
Concentrate a light pink blush on the tops of your cheekbones to sculpt, then blend the excess upwards towards your temple and feather into the crease of your eye, creating an arc-like movement. Dust a creamy matte pink across your lids with a fluffy brush and lightly diffuse the shade to the outer edges and browbone. If you have a magpie eye for all that glitters, use a damp brush or fingertip and layer shimmer across the lid for a reflective, high-shine finish. To continue the monochromatic colour story, lightly dab a pink lipstick of a similar hue across the lips and blend with your fingertips.
PEACHY GOLD
Evoke the afterglow of falling into a hazy, heady slumber, awakening as a soft heat reddens your cheeks to a rosy, bronzed hue with this peach-perfect colour trend. Inspired by the sun soaking the horizon in shades of gold, copper and fiery amber, delve into dewy, lit-from-within skin, molten gold shadows, and sultry, soft matte blushes that sweep across the cheeks and nose. To sculpt, carve and bathe your skin in a sunlit warmth, bronze up and enhance with a dusting of champagne-tinted shimmer across the high points to catch and scatter the sun’s rays. Rust to rose, crimson to copper –this trend is made for the moment when the warm glow of Spring surrenders to the sultry dusks of summer.
Get the Cult look:
To add warmth, sweep bronzer across your cheekbones, bridge of the nose, temples, and along your jawline. - Apply blush on the upper apples of your cheeks and across the nose – blend towards your temples to mimic how the sun naturally kisses your skin.
Finish with a soft dusting of champagne or gold-tinted highlighter on the high points of your face (cheekbones, brow bone, and Cupid's bow) and a sheer veil of clear or gold-tined gloss across the lips.
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INTO THE BLUE
The forget-me-not trend of Spring 2025. Bluebell is as fresh, dainty and fairy-like as the wild bloom it’s titled in tribute to. Embrace all the frosty feels of early Spring with a breath of cool, icy pigments, sky mattes and silvery satins across the eyes, framed with a slick of inky black liner to define and balance. No longer reserved for 1980s chick flicks, a sheer gaze of baby blue this season is soft, dreamy – more akin to conjuring visions of frolicking in a misty, faraway forest. As for the complexion? Think pearly, dew-dipped radiance and frost-bitten cheeks, paired with a subtle kiss of ballet pink on the lips. Imagine this painterly trend as your Monet moment.
Get the Cult look:
After your skin care routine, prep your base with a light, dewy primer or a skin tint for a fresh, lit-from-within glow. - Then, apply a cool, baby pink to the apples of your cheeks, blending the excess towards your temples for a soft, frost-bitten flush of pink.
- The main event; dip into an icy frost or a silky, powder blue and sweep this across the lid and crease, stretching up to the brow bone and outer corner of the eye.
- Define your eyes with an inky black liner, extending into a sharp, feline flick to contrast and balance the coolness of the blue.
PISTACHIO EYES
From high fashion to home décor, iced lattes to ice cream – get all the inside scoop on the powerhouse hue poised to enter the zeitgeist as 2025’s sweetest colour trend: pistachio. Without the acidity of Brat’s lime nor the coolness of mint, it’s rooted in more earthy, muted tones – floating in the orbit of pastels, sages and fresh greens. Peacock the shade’s vibrant, almost neon undertones with a fine line of colour across your eyes, extending to a sharp point at the inner corner. Bring balance with a dewy pinch of petal pink on the cheeks and lips, paired with subtle flicks of brown mascara. Garden parties, Spring festivals or a flower-dotted market, awaken from winter’s slumber and step into you’re next Spring fling with this invigorating hue.
Get the Cult Look:
- Take a pencil or liquid eyeliner in a pistachio-like hue and follow the angles of your eyes, extending into a fine point at the inner corner to brighten and awaken your eyes.
Enhance the shades warm, earthy tones with a few delicate swipes of brown mascara across the lashes. - Pink and green are complimentary colours and offer a fresh, optimistic feel. Dab a dewy, pale pink cream blush across your cheeks and blend with a brush or fingertips. Top tip: layer with a powder blush to intensify and increase longevity.
LILIAC LOVING
Winding tendrils of wisteria and sprigs of sleep lavender sweep away the remnants of winter and usher in a blossoming new season of Spring colour in beauty. Flattering on all skin tones and eye colours – especially brown – get lost in purple rain with iridescent shimmers, velvety violets and deep, dusty nightshade shadows that allure and enhance the eyes. Playful and provocative, fun and flirty, a haze of lilac across the cheeks harmonises perfectly with the eyes, while a flicker of gold highlighter across the cheekbones recalls the first dappled light of dawn. Purple lipstick didn’t die with the disco – dab a wine red on your pout, then blend or layer with a coat of gloss flecked with subtle lilac glitter.
Get the Cult Look:
- Pack a velvety matte lilac shade across your lids, blending in circular motions into the crease and lightly smoking this outwards to shape a soft wing.
- To intensify the eyes, shade your waterline with a matching lilac hue and sculpt a fluttery set of fanned-out lashes with a thickening, deep black mascara.
- Warm up the complexion with a dusting of champagne or gold-tinted highlighter across the tops of your cheekbones.
For the lips, lightly dab a mauve or just-bitten berry lipstick across your lips and blend with your fingertips, finish with a gloss flecked with subtle lilac glitter.
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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...
