Spring Beauty: Glorious Technicolour (and why you shouldn’t be afraid of it)
Violet, indigo, blue and green; yellow, orange and red. The time has come to stop being afraid of bright make-up. Need a little convincing? Let us put forward our case…
The 17 reasons you HAVE to get in on the rainbow brights make-up trend.
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If you refuse to wear colour, you’re going to miss out on our absolute favourite look of the season, this Giles SS13 neon lip. (Sucks to be you.)
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If you’re afraid of a little colour, you’ll never be able to recreate this Christian Dior SS13 eye make-up artwork come festival season. (And that’s just criminal.)
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…Or this one. Come on, it’s pink and sparkly. Hello princess!
#4
There is quite literally a bright colour to suit everyone. Believe us, we’ve tried them all. Including every one of these Bourjois Rouge Edition lipsticks, £7.99 each (and available nationwide).
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You’ve wanted to wear pink mascara since you were 11. And now you can, with the express permission of Donna Karen (and her SS13 models).
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Wearing a super-bright lip (like this Dries Van Noten SS13 matte pink) is a brilliant excuse to quit wearing mascara. Hello extra sleep minutes every morning. Goodbye goopy lashes.
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Michael Kors (in his SS13 show) has declared it completely within the realms of all things chic to wear a smudgy line of bright green liner just below your brows. And we’re going to do it, whether you think it looks silly or not.
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Matte coral lips look good on absolutely everyone. Yes, that includes you.
#9
If you’re afraid of colour, you definitely can’t have our favourite lip colour, Lady Danger by MAC (£14). More for us.
#10
And, we’re sorry but since you’re afraid of colour, you also won’t be needing this gorgeous matte red, seen at the Jason Wu SS13 show. We’ll be keeping this one too, then.
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Dressing up as one of Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art beauties has never been easier. Just channel Anna Sui’s SS13 girls.
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At just £7 a pop, these high-pigment Body Shop Colour Crush Eyeshadows are the perfect way to trial the trend. We’ll take the lot.
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Wearing a punchy red lip will detract from all manner of hair sins (just take this fashion-forward faux fringe at the Prada SS13 show – we bet you didn’t even notice it ‘til we pointed it out – too busy staring at the lips).
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Even Burberry’s girls wore colour this SS13 (hello gorgeous new red lip) and they are usually the nude-est girls around, you know, make-up-wise.
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You don’t have to commit to full-flavour wow-that’s-bright where-are-my-sunglasses colour (scaredy cats). We adore Tom Ford’s Lip Colour Shine (£36 each, stockists 0870 034 2566) – they glide on with a barely-there, buildable coverage and fade politely and evenly through the day. They’re our spring essential.
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An orange-toned lip will make blue eyes really pop.
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A bright red lip will never ever go out of style. Need proof? We’ve seen into the future (in the form of this Marc by Marc Jacobs AW13 beauty snap) and the red lip trend is still going strong for next season. What better reason to invest?
