Fashion Brief
Washes of warm colour lit up the models at the recent Valentino show. Here’s how to get the look yourself
Sun 28 Jan 2018 00.59 EST
Disco queen or fairytale princess? Valentino spring/summer 2018.
Photograph: Filippo Fior/Imaxtree
At Valentino, models wore bold blusher swirled up to the brow bones and blended out to the temples in pinkish bronzes (paler girls) and bright fuchsia (for those with darker skin). With nude glossed lips, the effect was half-80s disco queen, half-romantic princess breaking out of her tower. Think gentle washes of colour, rather than quickly pinched cheeks.
Get the look
George Blush Queen, £3.50, asda.com
RMK Multi Paint, £25, selfridges.com
Sara Hill Blusher in Posey, £19, cultbeauty.co.uk
Nip + Fab Blusher Palette, £8.99, superdrug.com
Trish McEvoy Lip Cheek, £29, libertylondon.com
Dior Rosy Glow, £32, debenhams.com
Sunkissed Make Me Blush, £3.99, sunkissedbronzing.co.uk
Beauty spot
Skin savers
First Aid Beauty – products that target skin issues like eczema, dry skin, and acne – is now available on asos.com’s excellent (unisex) Face + Body site.
High street hero
Superdrug is launching a beauty studio and barber shop. There’ll be a hair salon, too, plus nail bar and waxing studio, with spray tanning and piercing available alongside your Wet Wipes. Visit the Leicester Fosse Park store to see the future of the (affordable) salon…
Hidden assets
Heading up L’Oréal Paris’s new hair campaign is Amena Khan, an influencer who has worn a headscarf since her 20s. Explaining why this is an important step for a brand, she said the idea that women who cover their hair don’t care about it, ‘strips us of our autonomy and our sense of independence’.
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