Glitter and dewiness seem to be the next trends upon us… liquid highlighter for days, more and more sparkle/glitter in all things (eyeshadow, lip color,
highlighters).
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I love dewy looks but not into glitter! I hope we have more cool toned looks this year, especially eyeshadow.
I’ve no idea at all but I would like to see an end to this trend of red and orange toned eyeshadow palettes. Some of us just cannot wear these colours.
Me and one of my makeup buddies have been talking about the current glitter and gloss moment. So yeah, glitter and gloss. I am excited for this now that I can appreciate gloss without having long hair attaching to my lips.
or your dog’s hair ..
Or Maine Coon Cat hair….talk about baby fine and super long! ?
LOL! 🙂 That’s why I have hairless cats 😉
Oh yes…or Maine Coon hair under a contact lens. OMG, does that hurt.
Ugh, I swear my cat knows when I put on gloss. Always ready to swipe his tail on my face! XD
Oh, yes. Waist length hair and gloss. Ugh. A love/hate relationship.
I can imagine xD
I for one welcome our sparkle overlords.
Ha! Good one, Ginny.
– I’d like to see evolution from all matte!
– Even though warm neutrals are my bedrock, even I’m overwhelmed. I’d hope we have more options than just that one approach by everyone at some point.
– I hope we see more customizable palettes like MUFE did with blushes last year.
Not quite makeup trend per se but space adjacent:
– I hope the trend for options for good skin care products continues.
– The frenetic pace of releases is too much, and sooner later counterproductive to some extent since I imagine I’m not the only one who’s stopped paying attention, and rather only following a few favorite brands.
I’m hoping for cool toned shadows but I’m not going to hold my breath.
Some brands have already played around with this, but I think that there is going to be a move towards adjustable colour foundations. Whether that’s through single products or through the addition of colour supplements to shift a base shade (to account for differences in summer colour, in undertone, or just to fine tune an existing shade), I think consumers are going to start demanding the sort of microtonal options that they already have in lipstick, blush and eyeshadow.
Hopefully cooler toned eyeshadow palettes – talk about overkill on the warm ones!
Sadly I agree that glitter is likely to be the biggest trend for 2018. I say sadly because while I love a good glow, pearl or fine shimmer, I hate glitter with a vengeance.
At a higher level I wonder when the “over the top everything” larger trend is going to end. I can’t wait for more natural makeup to be the norm again – I’ve had enough of the full coverage, metallic highlight, cut crease, false lashes everyday looks.
Oh, I agree! Some of those young womens’ faces look like plastic dolls, so fake and overdone. It’s like autotune for faces, not pretty or alive-looking at all.
All of what Lulle said.
I won’t say what I want in trends, as I have gone on and on about that before. I do think glitter is/will be a trend, but a very short-lived one. Unless you’re 12-18, I think glitter is easily overdone and can look silly. Some of the glitter beauty products I’ve seen are so patchy and bad that they look like cheap craft store glitter.
I foresee a lot of glitter, high shine products and lots of purple in eyeshadow particularly.
I have the feeling lipstick are on their way out but that might only be me!
I’m loving the recent move towards dewy finishes and glossier lips!
Now, for some trends I’d love to see join those:
1.) More high quality cooler toned e/s palettes for those who cannot do the super warm trend. I can, but I definitely appreciate that not everyone else either can or maybe wants to. Besides, I do like some cool shades for a nice change of pace, too!
2.) And please; there *needs* to be a stronger move towards inclusivity in foundation shades ASAP. We are living in 2018. This should have already been resolved ages ago! If Brand X is only going to produce 15 shades of foundation in a line (which is ridiculously limited and foolish anyhow), then do 5 fair to light, 5 lt. med to lt. tan, 5 dk. tan to deep.
3.) Oh, and I’d love to see an end to flat matte liquid lipstick. Even my 2 lone KVD ELL, while beautiful, look and feel lifeless and parched.
Yes to all the above, thanks Nancy T!
I’m with you Nancy. I love some shine and glitter and can pull it off as long as i use a matte in my crease. I just can’t wear the matte lippies. My mouth and lips are just too dry.
You speak for a lot of us.
Agreed! I love mate lipstick but it doesn’t live me. It doesn’t matter how much I spend, it always seems into my lip lines and turns my lips into a dry shredded mess. I desperately want more satin options on the lip front.
Dewiness is an interesting concept, but I want glitter to GO AWAY.
Alright, that’s not fair to people who really like glitter, so I’d settle for companies eliminating glitter from anything described as “glowing,” “highlighting,” “shimmering,” “gleaming,” “glistening,” or “radiant.” As descriptors, they can use “glittering,” “sparkling,” “glinting,” or “flashing.” Great! Glad we got that settled! 😉
Alecto, I do actually wear and love micro-glitter (a pop on mobile lid only, or lipgloss), and I 1,000% agree with everything you just said about how brand’s misuse descriptors!
If something has *any* type of glitter finish or effect, then they need to call it what it is.
I’m just going on a whim here, but with the intense liquid lip and eyebrow trend, I think a natural sheen/ glossy lips will make a comeback. I still love a matte bold lip, but the pruney matte lip has really got to go. I think shimmer/ frosty lips are gonna be big too. Seeing them more and more, not sure how I feel about them but they feel really 80’s to me lol.
I love a healthy dewy skin, so I think the highlight is here to stay. Yay for me!
The intense more is more eyeshadow palettes, I think companies will rethink the size and amount of colors in an eyeshadow palette and start to release some smaller more curated shades. I’m so over the blush palettes and face powder palettes. They generally try to cater to a wide variety of skin tones so no one is realistically going to use all of them.
With the foundation shade range discussion end of 2017 and into 2018, (fenty, tarte) I feel companies will feel the pressure to release more shades to cater to a wider audience.
Hmm… K-Pop culture is gaining more hype. So I will guess Korean makeup trends.
NYX already started producing make up with that theme.
Dewy, yay! Glitter, nay!
Seeing the spring hues coming from Colour Pop (as an example), cooler tones are in the works. Plus, in fashion, lilac is having a moment, and pastels), so I suspect cooler tones will be following suit.
I predict more blue toned shadows and other eyemakeup for summer 2018.
And I’d like to see more no-SPF and dewy-finish product options in foundations etc.
Still mourning the loss of Bobbi Brown Luminous foundation.
I’d like to get rid of dropper bottles for foundations since the rubber can wear out before you may be done with the foundation. Same with perfume atomizer bulbs.
It seems to me the highliter fase is not dying at all I thought it would but I love it although can’t buy another yet…or can I? Huh?! ? I think the look is soacial something Stars Wars like with all the shimmer, glitter and glow. Bring it on I love it! At least I do love seeing it is just so pretty.
I feel like there’s some autocorrect in that middle sentence. Or did you really mean “Star Wars like?”
Spatial. Sorry. Auto correct.
Sparkle and shine. Definitely shine.
Glossier lips, cooler eye shadow (but lots of color, transitioning to softer warms like pastel oranges/pinks then to cools), thinner brows (than before) and liquid, foiled shadows.
Well, I think it’ll be glossy, wet looks. I’m thinking MUFE’s new Star Lit line is an example of crossing over from highlighting to a wet, glossy highlighting look. Zanadoo here we come!
However, what I’d prefer to come as a trend, but doubt are cool blues (a frozen pale and smoky dark sapphire look) and why not with some gloss. It could work! I’d like the moon looks to return from the 70 and be a little more sophisticated.
I love anything shiney! Glitter can be tastefully done I wore alittle on my mobile lid inner 2/3 today to a work staff meeting. (stila).
I’ve always loved gloss to quote my mother’ you look like you’ve been eating fried chicken’. Lol.
My skin is normal to dry so I’m down with a Dewey look if I can figure out how to put blush and bronzer on without patchyness. I struggle with blending blush.
I just don’t like a dewey description if it has sparkle or shimmer. I don’t particularly want that in my foundation.
I have no idea what the trends will bring but it sounds fun.
Like pretty much everyone else, I see the anti-matte swing still seems to be on the uprise: Metallics, glitters, and glosses. With Pantone picking Ultra Violet as COTY, one would assume purple makeup will be hot. Celestial and Zodiac themes are picking up in packaging and product names, and I think that will continue.
You would think (and hope) that Ultra Violet will be a big thing, but last year, they didn’t adopt much of Greenery in makeup. I love all the stuff you mentioned…metallic, glitter, gloss, purple, Zodiac…please be right!
Greenery got really overlooked, and I don’t know why. I would have thought at least eyeshadows would have been all over it. I would have loved a lipstick that shade, too. Purple should theoretically be more user-friendly and popular than a yellow-green, though. *fingers crossed*
Feathered brows. Glitter and glosses.
We’re totally heading into holographic type looks. At least the earlier part of the year. It’s evolving out of the unicorn/mermaid trend from iridescent into holo. I love it! I’m so glad it’s not matte everything anymore, which makes me look enbalmed.
My previous answer was a response to Christine’s answer rather than an answer of my own.
So … what do I think the trends are going to be this year? I see more velvet, semi-matte lips (even in liquid form) as an alternative to some of the desert-dry mattes we have now. I think it’s possible that the manga-like lip with the brightly-colored center fading out to almost skin color might become more mainstream. Is it too much to hope that we’re going to trend away from the drag queen cut crease? Probably. Obviously, the pendulum will swing back at some point and a more natural “look like who you actually are” trend will hit us, but I have a feeling we’re not there yet. I can’t think of any specific trends that might apply to eyes or cheeks, but I do think we’re overdue for simple, haloed or glowing blushing pinks in both those areas, like you might see attached to a sort of “sweet young thing” aesthetic.