Filippo Fortis, Gorunway.com, Getty Images
Filippo Fortis, Gorunway.com, Getty Images
Which Paris Fashion Week beauty trend will you try first? While the City of Light is wrapping up its final FW25 chapter, the hair, makeup, and skin-care looks born on the runways will live on in our morning routines, quick-changes, and opulent Saturday nights out alike. Lounging in a golden Augustinus Bader face mask, you can feel like a true Chloé girl. Reverse your black eyeliner like a Dior muse. Grab a fancy hairbrush to sample the swept-back style Gary Gill created for Hermès, and test your own “red lip theory” straight from the Tom Ford runway. When you have a minute and a mirror, beauty becomes the most DIY-friendly part of fashion month.
Below, the five biggest beauty trends from Paris Fashion Week worth a spin.
Brushed-Back Hair
Brushed- and slicked-back hair falls swept the runways. At Miu Miu, Guido Palau teased strands and pushed them backward into low-key bouffants, right in line with the Hitchcockian hair seen on the Tom Ford runway and off models’ faces. At Valentino and Louis Vuitton, headbands (plus visible face-tape elastics) pulled everything back, while at Yohji Yamamoto strands were slicked with gel and held in place with sculptural styling clips. In the tents at Hermès, Gill created sleek, swept-back styles with L’Oreal Paris hairspray and his favorite Japanese brush. “Spending money on a good hairbrush is everything,” he said. “The weight of it in your hand makes a difference.”
French Sculpted Skin
The “French touch” in beauty is actually skin sculpting, according to the LB Facialistes duo Augustinus Bader booked to sculpt models’ facial muscles with the brand’s products backstage at Chloé. Then there was the M.A.S.C Studio team and its signature “sculpting blueprint” technique paired with iS Clinical skin care as a first step at both Isabel Marant and Coperni’s Hackers-inspired runway. Models could be seen relaxing in LED masks at Weinsanto and arriving for early call times wearing their own eye masks like little street-style beauty accessories.
Subtle Smoky Eyes
There’s always a new way to smoke an eye, according to Dame Pat McGrath. At Schiaparelli she opened the week with taupe-smudged gazes “to accentuate every girl’s eye shape,” then designed a “softwear smoke” lid in shades of French gray and black for models heading toward Coperni’s LAN gaming party. Fara Homidi’s wings smoldered through tinted sunglasses at Casablanca, and at Dior, Peter Philips reversed black eyeliner for a smudgy inner corner. Gregoris Pyrpylis picked a trio of brown pencils at Hermès to “smoke out the inner and outer corner for more of a structured eye,” leaving the center bare (save for some mattifying powder) to let in more light. And closing out the season, Chanel’s black feathered smoky eye worked on every skin tone.
Tucked-In Tails
From the moment the “Olsen tuck” was clocked at NYFW, its spottings continued all the way to Paris. There were low ponytails kissed with Zara Hair Shine Mist that Palau sent onto the Dior runway, tangles pulled through lacy collars at McQueen, lengths tied with sporty cords at Ottolinger and peeking out of high necks at Sacai. With any length that reaches past a scarf, “you can tuck it in and look like you’ve got a little bit of a short haircut,” said Gill of the zero-commitment trompe l’oeil trick.
Power-Move Makeup
More-is-more makeup arrived in the fashion capital with ’80s power moves and statement lips—all the better for playing and dreaming. McGrath displayed her new cosmetics for Vuitton with technicolor contouring and vampy eyes and lips. Thomas de Kluyver attached XXL confetti-inspired lashes to models at Courrèges, and Daniel Sallstrom created hyperexaggerated stares at McQueen with earthy shades of MAC Paint Pots. On the Valentino runway draped hot pink blush called for glassy cherry lips, while Lucy Bridge tested her own red lip theory for Haider Ackermann’s inaugural Tom Ford collection with layers of the house’s liner, lipstick, and gloss.
This article was originally published on Vogue.com.
