Bye Bye, Brows. Beauty Notes from Vivienne Westwood
Pencil thin is in
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 01: Bella Hadid walks the runway during the
Vivienne Westwood Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of
the Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo
by SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
As Paris Fashion Week — the last stop of fashion month — draws
to a close, a few trends have taken over our feeds. On the beauty
front, perhaps the most interesting has been the absence of brows.
From bleached to skinny, and seen on everyone from the runway to
celebs in the front row, it seems the big, bushy brow era is over
in favor of something more subdued.
One of the greatest displays was at the Vivienne Westwood Spring
2023 show in Paris. The makeup, directed by the perennially cool
Isamaya Ffrench combined powdered
skin with nude liner, pops of candy pink and muted red lipstick, as
well as skinny, pencilled on brows. Like something from the Great
Gatsby, Ffrench concealed natural brows and instead sketched on
razor-thin lines just above the natural level. The makeup artist
used her own brand, Isamaya Beauty, to create the looks.
As for the hair, director Charlie Le Mindu out forward a mixed
back of wet look ’50s finger curls, slick low twists, and quirky
shapes like bowl cuts, and lengths smoothed under.
Fun, interesting and with a Westwood signature retro aesthetic,
the beauty look was everything that’s great about fashion week.
That, and yet another reason for us to sep away from the brow
pencil.
Scroll on for a few of our favorite looks.
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 01: Bella Hadid walks the runway during the
Vivienne Westwood Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of
the Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo
by SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 01: A model walks the runway during the
Vivienne Westwood Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of
the Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo
by SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 01: A model walks the runway during the
Vivienne Westwood Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of
the Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo
by SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 01: Georgia May Jagger walks the runway
during the Vivienne Westwood Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show
as part of the Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022 in Paris,
France. (Photo by SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 01: Irina Shayk walks the runway during the
Vivienne Westwood Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of
the Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo
by SAVIKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
