06Apr 2013

Fashion Magazine Beauty Panel: 90’s Inspired Makeup

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Last week, I announced that I had recently joined Fashion Magazine’s Beauty Panel as an online contributor. If you missed my first post, you can check it out here. This week, the Beauty Panel was asked the following question: “1990’s beauty is on trend for Spring. How are you incorporating the 90’s look with your hair or makeup? 


You can find my response below. To check out the other panelists and read their take on the 1990’s beauty trend, click here.

Here is my answer to this week’s Panel Question:
When I think back to the 1990s, I can’t help but get a bit nostalgic. The beginning of the decade marked my high school years where I remember a very signature look that was very “girl next door.” However, the ’90s were also all about extremes…. so we saw barely-there makeup, dark lips and even grunge makeup. To modernize the 1990s beauty trend, I chose to incorporate products I already had in my collection to create a paler skin tone, bolder brows and rich lips. I didn’t use any bronzer, eye shadow or eye liner for this look and focused solely on my brows, lips and skin.

Start off with a clean, moisturized face. I used the ProEven Brightening Cleansing Foam to gently cleanse my skin and applied the LiftActiv Serum 10 as my moisturizer (both by Vichy). Since I prefer my skin to be a bit more dewy, I decided to forgo using a matte foundation (a huge trend in the ’90s) and used a BB cream instead. Another option to get the ’90s minimalism look is to use a tinted moisturizer that matches your skin tone. To keep my skin “pale-looking” (another ’90s trend), I did not apply a bronzer and only brushed a few strokes of a neutral blush over my cheekbones. I used a brow gel to define and thicken my eyebrows and mascara to give my lashes rich colour and volume. I did not apply any eye shadow or liner to keep the focus on my brows and lashes, but you could easily incorporate a neutral shadow like “matte brown” into this look if you prefer. Deep, rich lip colours like mauve, plum, wine or brown were very popular in the ’90s, so for my lips, I chose to line and fill them in using a lip liner in a dark wine colour.

Products used: 
Vichy ProEven Brightening Cleansing Foam, Vichy LiftActiv Serum 10, Revlon Photoready BB Cream in “020 Light/Medium,” Benefit Boxed Powder/Blush in “Dandelion”, Make Up For Ever Aqua Brow in “#25,” L’oreal Paris Telescopic Mascara, MAC Lip Liner in “Vino”
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