At New York Fashion Week this season, the beauty veered between pared-back and unhinged. It is a skin care strategy as cosmetics that embodies the attitude of stripping away waste, and flashiness is kept to a minimum. Leave it to backstage legend Pat McGrath to lyrically summarize “sublime skin meets minimal majorness.” No wonder the ’90s is making its way onto the runways. Not just a minimalist front with clean skin and sleek knots, but a maximalist front too. There were plenty of bolder references, all the way down to bombastic updos worthy of a supermodel with power.

The show’s emphasis on beauty inspired by certain “characters” felt timeless. Individual statements included artful braided carvings, floor-sweeping hair lengths, and imaginative facial embellishments melange. It wouldn’t be a spring runway without it. Here are seven hair and makeup trends that popped up throughout the week.

90’s redux

The 90’s were everywhere. This less-is-her-more attitude of her decade was evident in Victor Glemaud’s subdued tone and Sandilian, where Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy served as muse. On the other end of the spectrum, there are touches of sparkle and smoldering, with Tory Burch teased with a critically acclaimed silvery glitter cat eye and Sergio Hudson teased with a supermodel-inspired set of cheekbones-grazing strands. Seen on updos.

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