Playing Up Your Bottom Lash Line is the Move of the Moment
We’re just three days into New York Fashion Week for the Spring 2016 season, but a handful of hair and makeup trends have already emerged, ranging from the totally wearable (undone waves!) to the less user-friendly and borderline absurd (crystal and lace facial adornments at Givenchy!).
We’d say that the under-eye liner look lands somewhere in between the two, erring on the side of “yep, definitely try this at home.” Approached one way, it can be a subtle change to switch up your everyday eye makeup; approached with a bolder hand, it becomes the kind of thing one would only expect to see after dark.
At Ohne Titel, models were made up to look, well, makeup-free, with the exception of baby pink liner used only on the lower lash line. Paired with natural-looking yet bold brows and a dot of silver on the temple, the look was current and interesting, and worked well in the context of an otherwise bare face.
There was a study in contrasts happening at Pamella Rolland, where models’ eyes were defined with black pencil liner on the top lid and white on the bottom. With faces awash in flushed shades of pink, the opposing colors made the girls look bright-eyed and pretty, not stark.
The warm brownish taupe hue used at Christian Siriano created a soft shadow under the eyes that showcases how versatile lower-lid liner can be—this wash of color is less bold than it is subtle and romantic.
That’s not liner you see at Tadashi Shoji; rather, it’s a super thinly-cut strip of metallic tape that makes for a graphic look. Sure, it’s not as amenable to copying off the runway as some of its counterparts, but the sharpness is something one may be able to achieve otherwise for a similar effect.
The boldness of the primary yellow used at Derek Lam worked perfectly with the natural dewiness of the skin and the softness of the brows.
Whichever you choose to recreate, know this: less is definitely more, because applying too much of a dark shade to the under-eye can emphasize sleepy dark shadows and make you look a little worse for the wear. For our part, we’ll be doing our best to adapt this one to a fall palette ASAP—we’re thinking a thin swatch of metallic bronze will do the trick for the season ahead.
