Thank goodness the experts are on hand to lend us fashionistas a word of advice in recreating the looks that were seen on the catwalks of London Fashion Week.
Yesterday we brought you an expert opinion on this season’s juxtaposing textures hair trend and today a beauty expert has imparted her extensive knowledge upon us so we can mimic the autumn/winter 2010 contouring look.
Style queen Jessica Hogan over at Vogue noted that iconic clothing designer Vivienne Westwood played with the notion of light and dark by shading the eye sockets and cheekbones of her models with purples, browns and greys.
James Kaliardos for Matthew Williamson also experimented with the look, using deep shades of foundation on the cheekbones and temples in order to contour the face.
But luckily for us, Beryl Barnard, education director at London School of Beauty and Makeup, says that the only products we need to achieve this look is a simple highlighter, which can be used as an eyeshadow or shader.
"The application is light to accentuate and dark to recede; for example, highlight browbone down to cheekbone, blush on the apple of the cheek and dark to shade below blush line," she suggests.
Perhaps worryingly, new research from Debenhams has revealed that the average British woman’s cosmetic bag is four years out of date, with fashionistas far and wide using products that are well past their use-by mark.
You wouldn’t keep your designer clothing after it goes out of fashion so why do the same with your makeup? I’m definitely clearing out my makeup bag this evening.
