After last season’s toughness and androgyny, SS2012 heralds the revival of an altogether more feminine and sensual approach to makeup— Skin that radiates a sportive, ultra-luminous freshness and health tunes into the season’s chic, athletic vibe ATH-ELITE

Languorous colour washes pick up on the soft side of the season, as tints that run from delicate peach through to blurred espresso form the most relevant way to wear subtle colour and definition NOUV-EAU

Beautifully buffed, burnished metallics accenting lips, cheeks and eyes make for the most modern way to reference the idea of a summer tan ORE-INSPIRED

Dynamic, urban, neoprene shades get a contemporary rethink, as pure-pigment eyes and lips go effortlessly edgy thanks to a new ease and lack of aggression to their application NEO-N

Which trend/s are you loving or leaving? Hit “read me” to find out what products you need to invest on to recreate your look of choice. :)

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Jason Wu/Manish Arora/Katie Gallagher
Faster by Mark Fast/Vivienne Westwood/Mary Katrantzou

creams all over from the Emilio Pucci show

Without batting an eyelash, I think you can tell that this is my favourite trend this S/S. Neo-N is all about pop art, odd colour combinations, and complexion that’s airbrushed to perfection. These are my favourite looks from the Neo-N trend:

Monique Lhuillier

Prabal Gurung

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Donna Karan/Hussein Chalayan/Emilio Pucci
Just Cavalli/Basso & Brooke/Sass & Bide

This Spring, ORE-INSPIRED asks you to take out all of your prized metals, coppers, rust, and peach to get that enviable glow. This trend is very eighties — liquid tan, sporty, Madonna, lingerie, lace, punches of dark lip and rock-gypsy all over. It’s very fresh, futuristic, simple, and beautiful. These two looks make me want to unearth some precious metals stat:

Blumarine

Elie Saab

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Rick Owens/Missoni/Holly Fulton
Giles/Etro/Francesco Scognamiglio

I love, love, love this disheveled meets luxe trend! Nouv-Eau is all about Art-Nouveau, monochromatic hues, romance, natural brows, glowy skin, lip stains, and soft washes of colour.  Lip staining or tinting the inside of the lips a darker shade than the outside is still very big this season. It’s also the easiest way to try out a bold colour since it’s full-on yet non-intimidating. This trend is so easy to pull off and is very office environment friendly. These are the two looks from this trend I’m dying to try:

Veronique Le Roy

Erdem

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Chloe/Damir Doma/Proenza Schouler
Altuzarra/Gareth Pugh/Jonathan Saunders

ATH-ELITE is all about sporting a dewy, fresh-faced look that relies on flawless skin and amazing foundation. Think sweating ballerina dancers or humidity sans beads of sweat. There are touches of futurism left and right which makes this look easy to wear and recreate. I love the caramel and honey hues from Chloe and the three looks below made my heart skip a hard, long beat:

Marios Schwab

Richard Nicoll

Frankie Morello

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I had the wonderful and rather rare opportunity last Thursday to make another dream come true. :)

4″ black heels — check. Wine — check. Front row seats — check. MAC S/S 2012 Presentation — check. The icing on the cake? Adding MAC Cosmetics Senior Artist for Australia Nicole Thompson into the picture.

Nicole’s bar of beauty treats

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