For the end-of-year holidays and throughout the current winter, make-up has definitely changed. Forget smokey eyes, it's the turn of the 'dreamy eyes' effect and the 'fakely imperfect makeup' with colors that go beyond the classic boundaries of eye make-up up up to the cheekbones and temples. Concealers and fillers are also discarded to hide defects, first and foremost dark circles that should only be reduced but left alone also because covering them with layers of make-up only makes a mess and risks the extra wrinkle effect. Glitter and sequins have also been abandoned, albeit progressively (the European standard that prohibits their production in stages in the coming years due to the impact of microplastics on the environment has recently run out).
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The make-up is still ultra-sparkling, gold but hydrated and more calibrated in a minimal chic key. Finally, for the lips, new compact colored oils to be used instead of lipstick and let's forget the mascara passed on the lower lash line of the eyes with a 'doll' effect, the make-up now becomes 'falsely imperfect' with artfully made smudges. On the changes in make-up 2023/2024, ANSA interviewed Simone Belli, an internationally renowned make-up artist, on the occasion of the upcoming Christmas Party that the make-up artist organizes in the capital every December.
"The make-up is gold but compared to last season it's less glittery, although super shimmery. Make-up products are often almost jewels, with extremely luxury packaging, also beautiful to show off, and make-up aims for sparkles and bright colors for a bright effect, glow but without extremes, a minimal chic elegance", explains Simone Belli. - Cheekbones sculpted with gold cream highlighters and eyes caressed by brushstrokes full of 'gold rose' or 'champagne' color or with sparkling colors. No to glitter, also in the name of greater respect for the environment, yes instead to the light of the skin that is obtained with very thin and latest generation micro pearls and with a hydrated effect. They caress the upper and lower eyelids to fill them all up, even reaching the arch of the eyebrow and beyond, that is, going beyond the space classically defined by the eye and reaching the temples and cheekbones for a falsely imperfect effect, without exceeding in the undone, the 'smokey' and the dirt. The best products for these plays of light are not in powder form but strictly in 'material' sticks, creamy and also to be passed with the fingertip, because they give a luminous effect that reflects, sparkles and even seems wet, wet, for a dreamy eye in which you immerse yourself".
The use of mascara also changes: "No more bunched lashes, stuck together for a compact and thick black. The new mascaras give volume but also neat lashes and are passed only on the upper arch, - Belli points out.
The lips are matte, but in a new version: "Full mouths, even with a velvety all-round red thanks to the new products that are opaque but also enveloping, soft and opalescent, different from the matte lipsticks that dried out the lips, - explains Belli. – The effect is obtained with new pigmented compact oils ideal for full lips, or with pencils, powder and full lipsticks if thinner. These are compact pigmented oils that can also be mixed together and that treat and illuminate the lips giving an impeccable allure".
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Even on the complexion front everything changes because the times when makeup masked imperfections are over. Belli explains: "The foundation has already changed. It no longer covers, it does not mask, making the complexion unreal and dull. The formulas are no longer so colorful and heavy and, in full minimal chic style, they aim to make the face harmonious even with some defects. Let's think of concealers that, often, instead of hiding dark circles, make them heavy and the skin more aged. It's better to even out the complexion and enhance the strong points of the face rather than trying to hide it by working layer after layer. After all, flaws are characteristic, they make us unique. The contouring with which she disguised herself and sculpted her face with makeup is destined to disappear. The new make-up lifts, in the name of chic minimalism with 'veil' formulas even to be sprayed on the face, the foundations of the future. So make-up lightens, illuminates and enhances and no longer wants to be perfect."
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