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What recent trend has captured your attention?
Well, I think the term “lip topper” (or “blush topper”) is frustrating to hear since layering products has been around forever, it’s always been something I’ve loved to do. One of my favorite things to do when I first started wearing full makeup was coming up with different lip combinations of lipstick and gloss. It’s also very hard for me to wear a single cheek color – I am often mixing and matching blush/highlighter!
— Christine
Monochromatic makeup is sometimes a fresh look and I’m loving the metallic lip trend. I cannot turn down anything rose gold?
A couple of years ago, Wayne Goss did a video about powdering before foundation. He talked about it increasing coverage without cake-face. I didn’t try it because I had always been told to powder after foundation. About a month ado I see an add for UD’s Velvetizer. I didn’t really know what it was but then saw another YT’er try it and so I found out that it was a “finely milled powder that can be used as a finishing powder but was developed to add to foundation to increase its coverage”. I tried adding some of my finishing powder to my foundation the past two days, (two different finishing powders) and both gave me cake-face but did not cover my hyperpigmentation. Am I using too much? Is the UD powder that different from my finishing powders? My curiosity is peaked. We’ll see if this is a fad or does it really work?
The wonderful return of glossy and/ or metallic lips! Preferably both worn at the same time! Lately, I’m just loving all the metallic, shiny goodness being worn recently: lips, eyes, highlighters. But especially lips. Idk, but I think it may well have done a better job at bringing sexy back than Justin Timberlake! ?
The same as you, Christine. I think it’s just another blush or lip gloss by another name. Also the glossy face and lid look. That might have been a while ago but I’ve seen it here in there and it’s definitely. . . interesting. Oh and I saw a few editorial looks where there was just this bold bright or neon swipe for a crease color, it was a little bit above the crease and it was just a thick line of color. Again, interesting. This probably isn’t a trend, but I’ve seen it more than once and if it becomes a trend, it won’t be for me.
Draping. I dont usually pick up on new trends, but I like how that one looks.
I really want to try this, but not sure how to pick colors. I normally use NARS Orgasm as my blush. Any ideas on what color would go with it for draping? Any brand is ok.
I actually use NARS Orgasm with a light hand, or other, lighter pik based blushes.
I still have all of your lip combo posts bookmarked! The term lip topper is annoying when some of those products are literally just a lip gloss haha!
Highlighters!! And also the “lip toppers” trend, even though I don’t use them as such. A lip topper is just a sheer, shimmery lipgloss which happens to be my favorite kind 🙂 So I love that now that they’re a named trend, they are proliferating haha
Oh golly, so many!
Metallic eye makeup/everything – updating my smoky eye this Fall with metallic accents. I love metallic accents- lips, eyes, nails, shoes, handbags, squee!
Pink is the new neutral. YAY! Those drab beiges & grieges need to go.
Monochromatic- one of my fave looks for years is now ‘on trend’! Pink-a-palooza!
Glossy Lips- Buh-bye matte! Glossy metallic lips? Yaaaasssss!
Degraded Black Liner & Natural Brows- So long to the hyper-flawless overdone squared off & severe Instagram arches with dramatic liquid liner 2016! The drag queen look is out and smudgy liner & brushed brows are back.
“So long to the hyper-flawless overdone squared off & severe Instagram arches with dramatic liquid liner 2016! The drag queen look is out and smudgy liner & brushed brows are back.”
Please be true!!!
I’m not a “trends” kinda gal but if anything, I guess it’s stuff like illuminators/illuminating primers and highlighting powders. I just saw my doppelganger, Nancy T’s reply, and I’d have to agree with her about the glossy lip although (like I said, not into “trends”), I never veered away from it. I have always found the matte lip to look very dry and unflattering, even on the youngest of mouths, as it seems to show up every vertical line and just not look at all how I want my lips to look.
Well I just learned that using blush to sculpt your cheeks is called draping, which I’ve been doing for a few months now anyway, so there’s that. Also, the returns of natural brows, glossy, moisturized lips, and dewy, glowing, healthy skin are all music to my ears. And monochromatic makeup, heck yes to that.
Dewy skin. I don’t know why so many YT bloggers have dry skin and just loves dewy foundation so much. I much prefer matte foundations because of my oily skin. Most dewy foundations have a tacky finish to them and even when you set it with powder, the oil peek through 10x faster.
Blinding highlighters. Anything stronger than Becca’s highlighters I just hate so much. They start to get glittery and look like a stripe on the skin (and my skin looks really oily in 4 hours so not a good idea anyway).
Metallic lips. Again, not my thing either. I like my good ole traditional lip glosses or satin to glossy lipsticks.
I appreciate the natural brow trend. I like my makeup to be complementing my facial features instead of completely changing them.
Not many. I think the whole Instagram look is so over with–overdone brows, matte lips, highlighting, contouring. I think the red and orange shadow thing will be short-lived, too. Now that I’m seeing women wearing it, I have to restrain myself from asking “What happened?” because their eyes look so painfully bruised. However, I think the pendulum will swing back and more natural makeup will be the next trend. I hope so. I’m glad to see companies putting out more non-matte lipsticks, and that’s a start.
Oh I hope not. The natural makeup is a yawn. Please no more nude or natural palettes. No more no makeup makeup. Been done to death. I’m glad to see red and orange eyeshadow bc at least it’s makeup and it’s exciting. Why even wear makeup if you want a natural look? It’s so played out. Thank God for color!
I prefer to be anti-trend, but I’ll admit to liking that gloss is back in force if we agree to stop calling it stupid names like “lip topper.” I’m going to be all pop-culture nerdy, but keep it simple – Buffy the vampire slayer said it perfectly – fire bad, tree pretty. If it goes under your lip product of choice its a balm, over and its a gloss.
No one can be anti trend. Yes we pick and choose what we like but everything from clothing to makeup to haircare is based on trends. Trends just mean what is in demand. See silicone, sulfate free in shampoo, it is bc it is what is popular and what people want. I don’t know why trend has become a four letter word. Silly. Just means you are current and evolving 🙂
Not sure I necessarily agree with all of what you said, but to me avoiding specific trends intentionally is being anti-trend – insta-glam anything, shape tape, bell sleeves, cold shoulder shirts or fast fashion in general, etc. I find it off-putting to be bombarded by the same everything on what seems like everyone. It’s just not my preferred style to be up to the minute on trend. I’m prefer a classic style but I don’t think that means I’m not evolving – it means I know my style and what works for me personally.
Metallic lipsticks – just love them, especially the bronze ones that Christine has shown lately. Needless to say, they haven’t arrived here in Aus yet – probably next year.
I’m also pretty fond of metallic eye shadows too. I have the Lorac Pro Metal palette, which has all the metallic shades I like -though you do have to use mattish colours with them so the metallic shade stands out.
1. After the matte lip trend going on for what seems forever, I’m thrilled that super-glossy and metallic lips are trending.
2. I’m loving the metallic eye trend, too. It’s also a nice change from matte everything.
3. I’ve always loved monochromatic looks, so I’m on board with those.
4. As a pale person, highlighting. I don’t like to do a lot of contouring, and I think highlighting is much more flattering on me.
5. Unicorn and mermaid trends. I think it is starting to get overdone and gimmicky, but I have to admit that I ADORE the shimmer and pretty colors. And unicorn horn handled makeup brushes. Because I have a tons of shimmers, duochromes, etc. already, I don’t have to buy a bunch of new stuff.
metallic lips! 🙂
I really enjoyed the recent palettes with warmer all matte eye shadows. I also have never been able to get the two tone lip to look good on me, though I do like the way it looks on others!