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Home · Makeup

What To Know About Beauty in Spring 2016

The spring/summer 2016 shows were peppered with color, super fresh skin, and lots of shimmer! Your favorite beauty editor's were behind the scenes to capture it all! Consider this your beauty lookbook for the next time the weather warms up.

By Virginia Lowman · September 16, 2015October 27, 2020
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Glossy pink lips fare well with a subtle pink shadow and create a look that is super fresh and girly.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Flawless gets a makeover next spring. It’s all about”undone” beauty. Think: mascara that’s a little smudged and barely-there nude lips. 

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Don’t toss that metallic liner, it’s making  a comeback next spring! Pictured here at Kate Spade.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Take a cue from Sally LaPointe and have a little fun with your brows; they may be your favorite accessory next season!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Floating liner is the new beauty craze. Forget lining your lashline and try painting your crease instead!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Keep it simple! Balmy lips and full brows offer a chance to cut your morning makeup routine in half!

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Of course, skin is always in! Get the extra glow by exfoliating regularly. And remember, illuminating serums and creams aren’t just for the face. They give shoulders and decollte a gorgeous summery glow, too!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Flushed lips and contoured cheeks still reign supreme! 

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Warm weather and flushed cheeks continue their long-standing love affair. Opt for a pop of color concentrated on the apples of your cheeks. Warmer complexions should look for peachy-apricot or plum shades to compliment their rich undertones.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Obviously contouring is around to stay, but do remember to blend! 

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Lived-in makeup takes center stage. Forget about perfect liner or fixing smudged mascara. Add a pop of color to lips and cheeks for a cool girl look that says “I didn’t have to try.”

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Barely-there makeup and smoothe balmy lips. Lip balm is your new beauty bestie.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Glossy lids and smokey eyes are sure to become stples in your beauty portfolio.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Bold matte lips set the stage for spring.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Repeat after me, “Glowy skin is always in.”

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

For nights when a simple winged liner just won’t do, get a little crafty and opt for a graphic cateye instead!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Millenial girls get to hold onto their kohl liner for another season!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Remember how orange lips had a moment this spring? Well, ‘orange is the new black’ may ring true in the beautysphere as well!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Trade in your black liner- neons are back!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Don’t shy away from shimmer!  Powder and cream shimmer shadows will be your new date night saving grace.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Eayes are the new canvas— get crafty with graphic lines!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Ttrends

Take it back to the 90s by lining your lower water line with a kohl kajal. Keep the rest of your makeup super simple.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Don’t have freckles? Stipple them on with a brow marker. Or, just step up your skin care and flaunt dewy, runway-ready skin.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Match your blush shade to your lip shade and blend color upward from the apples of your cheeks. Pair with winged liner and full brows.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Jay Maunel created a structural eye look using shades of green and blue backstage at Bibhu Mohapatra. Think: painterly lines in aqua hues. 

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Create the ultimate nude by trading in your lipstick for concealer. Add a peachy-apricot blush to the apples of your cheeks for a fresh flush and line you water line with your favorite kajal.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Pair bold, orangy-red lips with groomed brows. Hit the outter corners of you lashes with a wolumizng mascara are you’ve got a look that’s perfect for day and night.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Brighten up your eyes with a neon pop of color! Line your lower waterline with your favorite spring hue. If you’re feeling ecclectic, accent the look with a pinch of silver speckled wherever you choose. 

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

If pink isn’t for you, then opt for blue!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

The “no makeup” gets a lot easier net spring. Forget ful covereage; perfect your canvas by spot treating with concealer where neccessary.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Don’t toss that clear gloss just yet! Kohl liner and glossy, shimmer lips are the beauty staples of summer ’16.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Goth meets glam when glowy skin and flushed cheeks are paired with dark, vampy lips.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Makeup maestro, Pat McGrath once told us that wine-colored lipsticks are perfect year round. Here’s proof! 

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Wet lids are still in full effect. Using your finger, pat a clear gloss onto your eyelid and line your lower lash line in black.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Contoured cheeks and smoked out lids are the perfect look for your next spring evening soiree.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

If falsies aren’t your thing, forgoe that lashes for a volumizing mascara. Pair bold lashes with a true blue-red matte lipstick, smokey lids, and add a little gold shimmer to the inner corners for a flirty look that’s a little Moulin Rouge.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Flirt with different lipstick shades next spring, like this vibrant purple hue.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

A sublte gold shimmer shadow makes kohl-lines eyes look dressedup.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Neon shadows look retro chic when splashed on lids and married with orange-stained lips.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Lighten up your smokey eye by switching up your black for brown. It’s still super chic, but way more summer spring-friendly.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Play with pinky-nudes and flushed balmy cheeks for an instant summer babe glow.

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Dust your eyes wth an über pigmented shadow and blend upward from the crease. If you’re up to it, tint your brows, too!

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Spring 2016 Beauty Trends

Eyes get a graphic upgrade using stencils and gel liner.

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Add dimension to a charcoal smokey eye ith shades of blue.

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