This season’s lips are a rainbow of reds, from burgundy to peach, with the most wearable a jolly crushed raspberry. From stamped-on cupids bows to romantic bitten lips, your mouth is the focus for spring. At Dolce & Gabbana every model had their own ruby shade, with Pat McGrath explaining: “It’s not about just one colour giving power to the face. It’s ultra-Dolce.” Ultra-Dolce, an aspirational way of being if ever there was one.
Get the look
Laura Mercier Velour Extreme, £22, johnlewis.com
Mary Kay Semi Shine Lipstick in Raspberry Ice, £14, marykay.co.uk
YSL Beauty Rouge Volupté Shine in No 73 Fuchsia in Fury, £28, houseoffraser.co.uk
Shiseido Rouge Rouge in Burning Up, £24, johnlewis.com
Trinny London Lip2Cheek in Phoebe, £25, trinnylondon.com
Revlon Superlustrous Lipstick in Bombshell Red, £7.99, superdrug.com
Models Own Next Gen Semi Matte Lipstick, £7.99, modelsownit.com
Dolce & Gabbana Miss Sicily Colour & Care Lipstick in Rosalia, £27, harrods.com
Beauty spot
Join the glitterati They call it ‘goof proof’. It’s peel-off glitter eyeliner from Too Faced, and it comes in eight disco shades, which you can layer for extra drama (£16, debenhams.com).
Nosing ahead At the Perfumarié in New York, scent is sold blind. Customers smell fragrances with the branding removed, from celebrity scents to fine perfumes. After choosing your favourite, you leave with an anonymous brown vial (perfumarie.com).
Clean and clear Wave a bitter farewell to ‘anti-ageing’ products and say hello to ‘anti-pollution’. Millennial women are less worried about wrinkles and more about the effect of the environment on their skin’s health. Hence a new market of mists, scrubs, peels and creams that live and die by their SPF. Look out for Orveda’s luxury vegan products (orveda.com).
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