Make-Up Trends for Spring/Summer 2019

From bright eyes to bronzer, here are the key make-up looks to get on your radar, courtesy the experts at Bazaar.com.

Bright eyes.  Colorful eyeshadow is spring/summer 2019’s stand-out make-up trend. A rainbow of shades brightened up the fashion week catwalks, from hot pink painted in abstract shapes at Rodarte to washes of green at Marc Jacobs and bright baby blue at Erdem. The takeaway? Get playful with your palette, but stick to one hue.

Bronzer’s back.  Cementing a move away from contouring, bronzer was all over the runways, put it was placed along the models’ cheekbones, not beneath them for a chiselled effect. Seventies-style sun-kissed skin was seen at Alberta Ferretti, Altuzarra and Molly Goddard in place of both blush and highlighter. Sweep it on.

Virgin brows.  Move over ‘perfect’ Instagram brows, virgin brows are back and they’re bushy, raw and real. While tweezers need not apply, that’s not to say these brows aren’t groomed. At Proenza Schouler, Mansur Gavriel and Christopher Kane models’ brows were brushed up for eye-opening effect.

Graphic glitter.  Sparkling eye make-up in sharp shapes made for the ultimate festival inspiration on the catwalks. At Valentino make-up artist Pat McGrath hand-applied Swarovski crystals to models’ eyelids, while at Halpern, Isamaya French foiled eyelids with layers of glitter, framed with semi-circles of black liner. For a more wearable take on the trend look to Versace, where models wore wings of coloured liner with a metallic sheen.

Polished skin and pared-back eyes.  ‘No make-up’ make-up is a fashion week fixture, and when eyes were pared back this season, skin was highly polished.  The models at Alexa Chung had a hyper-real glow, and at Victoria Beckham the minimal beauty look had maximum radiance while Pamella Roland’s models looked effortlessly fresh-faced.

Statement lips.   On the spring/summer catwalks, statement lips came in either rich power shades or happy brights. Chanel stole the show with an intense raspberry red, worn with fresh skin and lashings of black mascara. Chloé gave good evening inspiration, with a creamy burgundy lip and at Burberry a true power red was modeled against otherwise ‘no make-up’ make-up.

Freckles.  It may or may not be the Meghan effect, but freckles were celebrated at shows including Roland Mouret, GCDS, Ryan Lo, Christian Siriano, and Preen, where make-up artist Val Garland gave all models faux freckles on top of fresh skin.

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