While there were plenty of shows featuring outlandish, costume inspired hair and makeup during Fashion Week, the remaining designers had wisely refrained from checking their sanity at the door. Among these designers there was a unifying theme: keeping it simple. The applications were basic, the hues infinitely wearable and the looks favoring nature over product overload.

Eyes were the location of most of the little color used. Fall’s classic smoky eyes- created with a smudged combination of black liner and shadow- gets to live on in Spring where it is paired with nude lips and bare skin. It will be sharing the evening makeup stage with its Spring modification that replaces the black with violet colored liner matched to lilac shadow. Monochromatic is the rule for done up eyes with gold liner and bronze shadow also being a favorite at the fashion shows. To accommodate these simplistic looks, eyebrows were kept full and natural.

Lips rarely bore a visible color of any kind with shows like BCBG sending models out with nude or completely bare mouths. The only lip color to have any popularity at fashion week was scarlet, utilized in a lip stain paired with nearly nude eyes and cheeks bearing the slightest traces of bronzer. With that exception, bronzer has taken a backseat for this season.

Skin was left as bare as possible with super light foundation and spot concealer being the preferred products if any had to be used. Blush, like bronzer, was virtually unseen.

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