The 8 Best Beauty Trends of Fall 2016 Fashion Week

It’s finally time to break out your makeup bag again—and we don’t mean the camouflage concealer or imperceptibly sculpting contour powder. The best beauty looks of Fall 2016 found a cohesive message in ditching the raw skin and barely there hair of seasons past, and embracing a more playful approach to your morning routine. The most memorable makeup moments were meditations on bold, dark glamour, with smoky eyes and plum-stained lips ruling the most directional runways.

Dramatic hair reinventions came at the hands of jaw-dropping cuts and colors, but texture—whether a fuzzy cloud of ringlets or a pin-straight slick-back—made a case for natural, individual ease. For both hairstylists and makeup artists alike, the ultimate failsafe method to putting a look together? Just add sparkle. Here, the eight biggest trends of Fall 2016—which you can dip into right now.

 

THE NEW BOB

 

If you felt the impulse to pick up the shears this season, you were not alone—and, in fact, fashion’s newest iteration of the bob conveys all the choppy, DIY angles of taking the scissors into your own hands. Model Heather Kemesky turned heads with her swingy banged crop at Altuzarra and Louis Vuitton, and newcomer Katie Moore ditched her waist-length blonde just hours before the Alexander Wang show for a career-making tomato wedge. Of its off-kilter appeal, Guido Palau explained, “What you’re seeing here is all of the wrong things being presented as the right things.” Call us rule-breaking converts.

 

LARGER-THAN-LIFE CURLS

 

Rainy days are no longer a hair issue: Diane von Furstenberg’s disco-fever volume, and Chromat’s mold-breaking ringlets (and casting) promise to look that much better in the humidity. From Milan (Gucci) to Paris (Lanvin), big earrings were paired with even bigger clouds of curls. But nothing inspired need-it-now texture like Natalie Westling’s fiery red waves, which made their runway debut at Louis Vuitton, just in time to head home and pick up a set of hot rollers.

 

A TOUCH OF SHINE

 

“Everyone loves glitter, right?” asked François Nars backstage at Marc Jacobs, where a few lucky models received a full head of sparkling black pailettes. From city to city, designers couldn’t have agreed more. Giambattista Valli proved that the best way to embolden your arches was to ditch the eyebrow pencil in favor of a mirror-image stripe of silver. Opening Ceremony sculpted cheekbones and earlobes with streaks of snowy pigment. And Burberry suggested that even tears can be beautiful so long as they shine.

 

ROMANTIC HAIR ACCESSORIES

 

Whether you have the oversize texture of the season or pin-straight strands, give your hair a shake-up by way of Chanel’s glittering camellia pin, twist it away from your face with Sonia Rykiel’s crystal encrusted barrettes, or top a second-day blowout with Dolce & Gabbana’s velvet bow. If excess is your thing, not to worry: Take your cues from the Alexander McQueen runway—and wear all of your best hair accessories at once.

 

ROUGE NOIR LIPSTICK

 

“Decadent, dark, and a little dangerous,” was the direction behind the lacquered plum lips at Dior—and the house’s runway wasn’t the only one featuring a rebellious new take on lipstick. The vampish shade turned up in London (Mary Katrantzou), Milan (Marni), and Paris (Louis Vuitton). But perhaps it can all be traced back to New York, where the original bad gal herself, Rihanna, chose the darkest shade of all for her Fenty x Puma cast of neo-goth babes.

 

SMOKE SHOW EYES

 

The traditional rule-breaking makeup statement is getting high-impact reworking for fall: At Dries Van Noten, obsidian pigments took on the texture of a watercolor painting in the style of the 20th-century heiress Marchesa Casati. Both Fendi and Givenchy defied notions that a smoky eye must be black—or even gray for that matter. And backstage at Chanel, Tom Pecheux painted on a cross-hatched pattern taken straight from the fashion house’s cultish quilted bags.

 

THE SLICK STORY

 

Parted to the side, split down the middle, or pulled tightly back, a sharp approach to styling your hair took shape at runways from Proenza Schouler to Saint Laurent—meaning your favorite new time-saving party move comes down to grabbing a comb and slicking things back.

 

POLISHED WAVES

 

A powerful argument for ditching the brush cropped up at Michael Kors, who eschewed his usual beach bombshells in favor of an urban cool, embodied by Danish import Freja Beha Erichsen (whose grown-out shag was the very picture of air-dried appeal). For Rochas, the only thing needed to transition from your bed to your office was a single bobby pin, and even at Balmain, where supermodel BFFs Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid swapped hair colors, Californian laid-back waves reigned supreme.

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