Beauty Trend:
Autumn/Winter 2009-10New York, New YorkNYC's autumn/winter 2009-10 collections took faces through an exciting journey of colour and era. Beginning with taupes, beiges and sepia-toned shading of the Thirties and Forties at Diane Von Furstenberg and Donna Karan, with a punky pit-stop in the Fifties where DKNY flaunted black graphics paired with bubblegum pinks, and culminating in an explosive Eighties stop-over courtesy of Marc Jacobs where a Siouxsie Sioux-inspired palette rocked the runways.

A return to refined glamour was present at shows like Oscar De la Renta and Luca Luca, where chief make-up artist James Kaliardos described the feel as "romantic, glamorous, feminine - sculpted and shaped, timeless and classic." Tuleh, Matthew Williamson and J. Mendel embraced a more dramatic twist, though, with overtly smoky eyes and a high-octane lip palette of blood red and deepest mauve, with Polly Osmond for MAC describing the look as "Thirties Parisian".


Jessica David