We’re deeply manifesting spring, because alongside lighter evenings and the return of rosé we’re looking forward to the step-change the new season brings – for our mood, and our makeup bag. We’d almost forgotten how much we love a colour pop eyeliner and sheer juicy mani, so we teamed up with top makeup artist, Francesca Brazzo, hair stylist, Ken O’Rourke and nail artist, Robbie Tomkins to help mood board our spring beauty wardrobe with all the top-trending inspo.
The main takeaway? Chromatic is the new chrome. It takes the glazed, glossy finish that just works as soon as the spring sunshine hits, but it majors on playful bursts of experimental colour, too. Whether you’re decorating your eyebrow arches (yes, really), remixing lip liner in lilac, flipping the glossy hair trend on its ends or updating your nails with the next-gen jelly texture, here are the chromatic spring beauty trends to know…
Blue tones
Blue has been tipped as the shade to watch this spring with Pinterest spotlighting the shade in its 2024 report. Instead of the blueberry milk nails that headlined last spring, this time round we’ll be wearing blue tones as pops of colour on our eyes. “To make colour pop, you use a cream or gel base first in the same colour, and when you put the eyeshadow on top, the colour pops and it lasts longer,” explains Francesca.
Harriet MacSween
With searches for “aqua makeup look” up by 100% on Pinterest, we wanted to know how to get the look. Francesca started with a neutral base on the lid, using MAC’s Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Groundwork, then contrasted it with a streak of aqua under the eyebrow arch. She layered MAC Eyeshadow in Mint Condition on top of Made By Mitchell’s Gel Gleam in Frostbite. She added structure to the brows by brushing them up with the L’Oreal Paris Eyebrow Artist Plump & Set Brow Serum.
Francesca kept skin glowy with the L’Oreal Paris True Match Lumi Glotion and Fenty Beauty Sun Stalk’r Instant Warmth Bronzer then finished off the look with a brown-toned pink lip using L’Oreal Les Nus Lipstick in 172 Determine.