In Style’s Top 20 Beauty Essentials

This is the list of In Style magazine’s top twenty makeup trends for this spring. They have covered everything from the freshest new products, to different brushes for application, as well as the hippest ways to carry around all the products needed to take any look from a basic day to a stunning evening look.

1)Customizable Lip Color: easily blended into countless shades to match any spring outfit

2)Clump-Free Mascara: to prevent stuck together lashes

3)An Everyday Watch: perfect for casual outfits and running errands

4)A Double-Duty Liner: can vary intensity of any look with two complementary shades that can be worn together or alone

5)Iridescent Eye Shadow: perfectly light and airy for the start of spring

6)Flawless Foundation: the starting point of any pulled together look

7)Perfectly Pink Powder: gives your cheeks an ideal flushed look with out being overdone

8)A Classic Makeup Bag: splurge on a designer bag the great quality will last for years and make it well worth the price

9)Color-Complementing Compact: there are many products available formulated to accentuate your specific eye color

10)Chic Shades: sunglasses are always the ultimate accessory for spring!

11)Leather Wristlet: great way to carry the essentials for quick touchups

12)Evening Eye Brush: pointed eyeliner brush works wonders for precision application

13)Liquid Liner: try this in a shocking shade of violet

14)Bold Polish: make a loud statement on your nails and toes with out taking to big of a risk this season

15)Colorful Mascara: in eye-popping shades like bright pink and blue layered to compliment each other and any eye color

16)Luminous Liquid: light moisturizer to make skin glow from the inside out

17)Beauty Bling Dior and YSL offer products from lip gloss to solid perfume in sparkling wearable packaging

18)Cocktail Ring: great for drawing attention to perfectly manicured nails

19)Lip Gloss for Night: shimmering light reflecting gloss is just enough to balance defined eyes

20)A Natural Bronzer: wake up your skin with a little bronzer or peach blush

It seems that today women cannot get enough of luxury items including animal print accessories. This up and coming animal trend has been taken to the extreme as shown in the February issue of Elle magazine. The monthly Beauty News section featured a stunning picture of a perfectly leopard printed eye lid. This new concept goes above and beyond the conventional department store eye shadow. This astonishing shadow is applied by Professional Instant Eye Shadow Applicators. They look much more complex than they really are and are simply pressed onto each lid and than dusted with a translucent powder to set the look. This new product seems strange and hard to grasp at first but Elle summed it when they compared them to being similar to temporary tattoos.
If the “Leopard Lounge” shade isn’t your thing these single use shadows come in other shades including a wild zebra print, or “Sapphires and gold”. The cost of these “eye opening” statement makers is eighteen dollars for a pack of five, or thirty dollars for ten. While this might seem like a slight sticker shock at first the company states that having these eye shadows is the equivalent of having a professional make up artist at your finger tips. Even though some people argue that these eye shadows take out the fun of application, I feel that some of the more neutral shades would be appropriate for more formal occasions. This is a trend that may or may not catch on in the make up industry and while I can only see a select group of people using these regularly, I am sure they will be making an appearance on run ways everywhere very soon.