When I'm planning my beauty pages, I need inspiration.
So, I like to sniff around on take-way-too-long-to-load fashion websites, and flick through those achingly hip overseas magazines who have collectively decided that punctuation is for losers, and then peruse the big guns like Allure and Lucky, and then sit at my desk smoking a cigar and figuring out what the trends are right now, because it's well-known that everyone decides that, say, tangerine lips are hot at exactly the same minute when we are handed the memo from the mythical and definitely not made up Beauty Trend Decider, who sometimes plays jokes on us and tells us that frosted blue disco eye shadow is in, and everyone really can wear it.
But then I had a Clever Moment®, and thought I would ask my violently fashion forward friend and her towering Balenciaga boots if there were any outstanding beauty trends at NY fashion week, of which she just returned from, after having bought said boots.
First she sends me this.
Then this.
Then this.
Then this.
And I thought, thank GOD.
FINALLY, something I can work with.