5 Beauty Lessons From the Pre-Fall Collections: From Wind-Whipped Waves to the Modern Glitter Eye
If the pre-fall collections are giving great range to transitional-season dressing, their hair and makeup prescriptions offer a unified beauty forecast: Bare complexions will be served with flashes of light, be it a cluster of sequins on the eyes or a high-beam shine on the cheeks; hair will be left textured and untamed—or pulled off the face with the help of a signature headband or barrette; and lipstick, should it be worn, will be applied in bright pink. Here, five beauty rules you can adopt now to get a leg up on the year ahead.
Photo: Courtesy of Chloé1/5Crossing over from spring’s hippie-inspired natural waves, pre-fall taps into the untamed beauty of wind-whipped texture and bed-rumpled blowouts as seen on the models at Chloé, Burberry Prorsum, and Vera Wang, who wear the unkempt style just as easily when dressing for day or night.
Photo: Courtesy of Oscar de la Renta2/5The fuchsia lipstick at Oscar de la Renta was a welcome interruption to the season’s abundant nude gloss. The uplifting color picked up the playful accents of the bow-trimmed and floral-appliqued collection, making a case to ditch red formulas altogether in favor of shades of watermelon and flamingo.
Photo: Courtesy of Bottega Veneta3/5If emphasis has shifted from makeup to skin care in the past few seasons, pre-fall further enhanced the parade of dewy complexions with deftly applied illuminator. Gleaming highlights along the models’ cheeks at Bottega Veneta, Prabal Gurung, and Christian Dior have convinced us to add a swipe of pearlescent makeup to our morning cleansing and moisturizing routines.
Photo: Courtesy of Michael Kors4/5Slinky black accents and sparkling pins refreshed classic hairstyles. At Michael Kors, wispy ballerina buns were secured with a thin ebony headband that provided purpose and definition to the otherwise expected knot. Chanel upgraded glossy blowouts with silk bows and jeweled barrettes that will most likely sell out in pre-order.
Photographed by Taylor Jewell5/5Leave it to makeup artist Peter Philips to modernize glitter eye makeup. For Dior, he executed a minimal application of oversize silver sparkles for maximum effect—placing them neatly in the center of the models’ upper eyelids, just along the lash line where they would catch the most light.
