Naughty schoolgirls reign on the runway in London
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entire look was inspired by this moody teenager who heads to Blackpool for the weekend and plans on snogging boys at the bus shelter,” explained hairstylist Anthony Turner of the look he pulled together at today’s Topshop Unique show. (For anyone confused, Blackpool is a very kitsch seaside town in England and is indeed a place where “moody teenagers” hangout.) “Anything too neat just wouldn’t work for the Topshop girl, so I haven’t used a single comb or brush,” continued Turner. “Instead I’ve relied on my fingers to create a really low side parting and to give to give the hair a little kink and separation.” A light misting of L’Oréal Professionnel Tecni.Art Pli and some Wild Stylers Beach Waves provided the matte and fluffy texture. “Ideally, you’d apply them to damp hair and let it air-dry so it forms its own natural kinks, but we’re having to speed things up a little by wafting it with a dryer,” he explained.
Makeup artist Hannah Murray’s interpretation of “faded British seaside glamour,” as she put it, was embodied in the outdoorsy, windblown flush that she placed low on the apples of the cheeks with Topshop’s Cheek Gel in Plum. A bit of Vaseline on the tops of cheekbones lent a youthful radiance to skin. The Topshop girl is, refreshingly, one who likes to wear makeup, so Murray intensified eyes with Kohl in Sable and Waterproof Liner in Gunpowder sketched into the lashes and blended up onto the lid and under the lower lash line. Not to be outdone, lips took focus with a cream-to-powder product called Lip Ombre in Baffle that was placed in the centre of the mouth and blended out into blurred edges. A small amount of a burgundy lipstick dubbed Temptation was again pushed into the center of the mouth and diffused out. “It’s a smudge-y, just-kissed lip,” she explained. “It’s not laborious in the slightest,” Murray summed up. This is one runway look we’ll happily transition to real life—makeout session or not.
