Megan Fox and crimes against lip lines
Megan Fox has been the name on everyone’s lips this year. So what has been on hers, you ask? Lipstick... and lots of it. While painting them in garish shades of red and pale pink (neither of which suits her skin tone particularly well which is a sin worth mentioning) her love of an over-drawn lip line is a far worse crime, worthy of some serious atonement.
Lindsey Lohan AKA ‘tan face’
Spray tans, in my opinion, are best applied below the neckline. To eliminate an unsightly, rather unfortunate-looking splotchy complexion and dodgy hairline, start at the feet and graduate the colour as you near the face. The result will be entirely more natural. Lindsey take note.
Drew Barrymore’s festival face paint
This year we saw Drew Barrymore skipping amongst the tents at many a music festival wearing muddy gumboots, her skirt hitched high and, well, face paint. And not just any old face paint; given the amount of blue and yellow and silver and gold and black and white and purple grease swiped across her face I dare say she’d spent some time in the porta-loos prior to hitting the VIP area.
Nicole Kidman: a tad too powdered at the premiere of Nine
Was she in a rush to leave the house? Were the limo's lights out? Why did someone not stop her? How Nicole Kidman, the queen of poised-perfect public appearances manage to wander onto the red carpet with that much face powder, unblended and far from unnoticeable, I’m afraid, I’ll never know.
Lady Gaga meets the Queen
A red PVC Elizabethan-inspired gown teamed with red lips and red crystal-adorned eyes: only Lady Gaga who could carry off this look, and even that’s debatable.
The vampire pallor
Twilight and Trueblood inspired the death of the tan. As confirmed at the recent spring 2010 collections, pale skin is in.
The black, blunt, bowl cut
The boyish look was ubiquitous; it was the look of the year. Models left, right and runway were both cropping their hair and dying it dark (such as Agnes Deyn) or donning wigs at the request of designers and editors alike.
Alexander McQueen spring 2010!
Prosthetics, latex and a lot of concealer were used to transform models into amphibians for Alexander McQueen’s spring 2010 collection. While it was by no means a translatable look (‘runway to real life’, anyone) in context when teamed with those models, in those shoes, in that slow procession, against that video projection) it was still beautiful, fascinating and masterful.
Guido-style
How could you not love a ‘Blow out’ set with oodles of gel and cement-like spray? How could you too not want to spend 25 minutes on your hair like the boys from Jersey Shore?