Luckily, you don’t need to be a professional make-up artist to recreate these looks at home, writes
PRUDENCE WADE
ANEW season means new beauty trends inspired by the spring/summer 2020 catwalks. There really is something for everyone; if you like to experiment you can play around with neon eyeshadow, or if skincare is more your thing, there’s the trend for overly dewy skin.
An interesting feature of all the trends this season is how imprecise they are. Instead of hyper-complicated, pristine looks, backstage make-up artists were purposefully haphazard, giving off the impression of laid-back cool.
This is a bonus for those among us who aren’t professionals, meaning you don’t need a steady hand to nail these looks.
If you want to shake up your beauty routine for spring, these are the trends to try...
KOHL EYES
GOOD news for anyone who still sleeps in their make-up, because the smudgy, imprecise look is bang on trend. Models at Ashish and Simone Rocha shunned the perfect cat-eye for something with much more of a rock chick vibe.
Eyes were heavily ringed with dark kohl – the messier the better.
We know these looks were created by an army of make-up artists backstage, but it’s the kind of thing you can easily recreate at home.
You don’t even need a hugely complicated palette or extensive make-up collection, because all it requires is a trusty black eyeliner pencil.
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NEON EYESHADOW
THIS is exactly the kind of beauty trend you’d expect to come out of spring/ summer shows: bright, sunny and festival-ready.
Everyone from House of Holland to Pam Hogg modelled some kind of neon eyeshadow, bringing rave culture to the catwalk.
Splashes of glitter elevate the neon, and once again, you can be as reckless as you like with application – no need to worry about perfection.
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DARK LIPS
THIS is one of the more surprising of beauty trends to come off the catwalk. While spring/summer is typically seen as a time for bright make-up, labels like MaxMara and Rick Owens subverted expectations by choosing dark berry lipsticks.
These are the kind of colours we’re more used to seeing in autumn, but they look particularly striking paired with a frothy white dress.
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