BACKSTAGE INSIDER

THE LOOK: Neo-natural THE LOWDOWN: The new ‘no make-up’ is definitely not about doing nothing – it’s meticulous,” says make-up artist Terry Barber, summing up the mood that descended on beauty for the autumn/winter ’21 season. “Naturalness is no longer considered a failure or to have not bothered: it’s confident, self-assured and effortlessly cool.” PUT SIMPLY: This season’s love for doing less is more than a relic of our stripped-back 2020 beauty routines. At Stella McCartney, Hermès and Chloé, it looked as though hairstylists had skipped the show altogether with models sporting centre-parted tresses that deliberately hit the sweet spot between undone and understated. It was a similar story at Isabel Marant: “We kept the girls very raw, kept the real texture, just a bit of mousse and wax and drying naturally,” said hairstylist Damien Boissinot behind the scenes. Which is, in fact, a key call-out of this ‘come as you are’ trend. With just a handful of double-duty formulas – a tangible mousse, a long-wearing concealer, a clear brow gel – doing less is, in fact, doing more.