A/W trends - say what?! pt.2

I just can't get enouuuugh. I just can't get enouuuuugh. I've has that stuck in my head all day after watching 'The Saturdays on tour' on t4 this morning. And i also can't get enough of makeup and its latest trends that are brainwashing the nation at the moment. It's all so exciting.

So last time i babbled on about the red lip and how its back in all it's sophisticated glory. Now i'm going to ramble about eyeliner, gothic grunge and the swingin' sixties. Starting with bardot's days of glory...

Brigitte is back but as a bad girl. It's like she's rebelled and made Courtney Love her new BFF. Her famous sex kitten matt smokey eye has had an update by being smudged out at the corners of the eye, accentuating the cat like eye. You'll need your classics such as MAC Smolder Eye Kohl, Blacktrack Fluidline Eyeliner, and Bourjois do a great smokey black shadow in 'Extrait 10', at £6.99 a pot its a fraction of your slightly higher end products but still does the job perfectly.

The trademark babydoll pink lip is still bang on trend though, however keep it on the nude as it's all about the eyes for this look.

The other side to the swingin' sixties is the big, round bambi like eyes, with a huuuuge emphasis on lashes (falsies are your new best friend, or try a longer lasting style with lash extensions) and the nude lip with this look is more of a beigy nude. Think MAC Lipstick in Cherish or Myth, or Topshop Lipstick in Desert. If your too shy for false lashes, a couple of good mascara's are Maxfactor's False Lash Effect Fusion, or Rimmel Lash Accelerator (which has ingredients that make your lashes GROW - oh.em.gee).

To get the most out of your mascara...
- Comb it through both top and bottom lashes from root to tip, repeating this 2 or 3 times to intensify.
- If you want them heavily coated, you will need to coat the top of your lashes also. It's best to look down to achieve this.
- For the twiggy like lashes, being neat is not necessary, she was all about the clogs!

Our other luscious look seen on the catwalk's at designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Alexander Wang and Betty Jackson (to name but a few) was the famous Gothic Grunge. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah just in time for the king of rock festivals Reading and Leeds. It also takes us through to halloween, which is when we all love to unleash our dark side (well i do, anyway).

With this your looking again, at your Courtney Love/Brody Dalle/Shirley Manson type nicotine stained eyes. Angsty teens with their grungy, dishevelled hair that falls beautifully with a centre parting. Scuzzy is now fashionable.

It's the sort of ghost wedding type greys and mauve/roses. Misty eyed. Colours that work on both pale and tanned skin. 

Lips are purple and berry stained. Seductive and vampy. If dark lips and eyes are too much for you, neutralise your natural lip colour by wiping your foundation brush over them, then take your ring finger, dab it into a berry shade of lipstick, and dab over both top and bottom lip. This way you've got the hint of colour, but with out the full on statement.

Get painting!