Top Beauty experts spill the tea on how to get some of the runways hottest hair, skin, makeup and nails. From glass skin to textured nails, there’s something for everyone!
If you find that a full-on runway look is a bit too much for a day at the office or happy hour, incorporate the essential elements of the look into your usual beauty routine. Or recreate the look using a more neutral color to get the effect in a way that feels right for you! When it comes to beauty, there are no rules, so have fun with it!
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Textured Monochromatic Manis
There is something so chic about a solid-colored nail with a little texture for interest. Celebrity nail artist, Pattie Yankee created both a white and a black textured nail look for Bryan Barrientos and SHAO NY.
Barriento’s collection this season featured white-on-white with lots of textures and interesting silhouettes, so Yankee wanted to mirror that on the nails. To get the look, start with a coat of white polish and add some flocking powder to give it that depth. The set created for SHAO NY focused on a jet-black look to complement the edgy designs. To achieve the look at home, you just need a little patience. Yankee recommends applying a base coat of a black polish such as her namesake brand’s ‘Fill the Void’ and attach black rhinestones on top to fill up the entire nails.
While those are the easiest looks to recreate at home, they certainly weren’t the only textured nails Yankee designed. She also employed sculpting powder to create stunning textured chrome nails at Private Policy.
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Get a Glass Effect
Glossy skin was the star on the runway at Prabal Gurung. “We pioneered the glass skin movement in 2018, at that time glass skin was not a thing and now there’s billions of views on the glass skin hashtag,” shares Alicia Yoon, Founder and CEO of Peach & Lily. “I actually have very sensitive eczema prone skin, which is why I wanted to start the brand because I couldn’t find something out there that was able to marry potency with gentle [formulas] for my sensitive skin.”
Yoon adds, “We’re really excited because for this fashion show we are all about bringing you healthy natural glass skin with just our products, foundation free, onto the runway. Glass skin is for everyone. You can see the models here have very diverse skin, skin types, skin concerns, skin tones. Wherever they are in their skin journey with the Peach & Lily products they’re all going to have glass skin … It’s a moment to show that glass skin is for everyone.”
So how do you achieve the glass skin effect at home? Yoon has some tips. “Start with the core glass skin routine, which is the Power Calm Cleanser, the Wild Dew Treatment Essence, the Glass Skin Refining Serum and the Matcha Pudding Antioxidant Cream. Then when you’re done with all of that … spray the Glass Skin Veil Mist and literally you have instant glass skin.” Implementing this routine will help improve the look over time, so you’re getting luminous skin from within.
However, don’t skip on the mist! “The Glass Skin Veil Mist it’s not a makeup product, it is a skin care product, but it gives you this incredibly beautiful finish. Not only does it find moisture, but it holds on to that moisture… You can wear it on bare skin, you can even wear it over makeup. The base is not water, it’s cucumber water so it’s very soothing and you just get that beautiful finish.”
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Airy, Easy Tousled Tresses
For Simkhai spring 2025, celebrity stylist Holli Smith was inspired by the ‘70s archetypes and individuality. “We want to see some movement, but right now in this era, we’ve honored so many different unique personalities, textures, and haircuts,” explains Smith who focused on playing up each model’s own unique personal style, which she admits can be challenging at times when getting everyone ready for a show.
However, the main look for models with longer hair started with a middle part “It’s not laid with the pintail comb, so it’s not severe and couture.” Smith explains. “What we’re doing is we’re putting a few little clips right at the part in the back, so that it gives you a little bump of volume … without making volume at the side. We want to keep it little closer to the head, it looks cooler, and it doesn’t get glamorous.”
Using TRESemmé Extra Hold Mousse, Smith applied it liberally to the hair in large panels, before gathering the hair and creating an ‘S’ wave. “I’m not using a curling iron to get something that becomes barrel looking or salon looking,” Smith emphasizes. “It’s just a simple cooler, closer to the body style.” Then using the Shark Beauty SpeedStyle ProFlex blow dryer on gentle heat (with the DeFrizz Fast diffuser) before taking out the clips that held the hair in place. “Next, I’m going to just break it up a little bit, but you know that it’s already set closer to the head so it’s kind of a cool girl look. I just start to mess pieces up on the outer layer, so it looks special, like it’s not so forced down.
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Iridescent Nudes
“Nudes for spring and everything for spring is going to be shimmery opalescent,” Miss Pop, lead manicurist and ZOYA Brand Ambassador explains. “Nothing boring anymore. [At Theophilio’s ‘Shaunie’ spring 2025 collection] we’re using ZOYA’s ‘Nyssa’ which is a caramel nude and ‘Ophelia’ which is more of a dark chocolate and we’re putting over ‘Leia’ which is my favorite ZOYA Shade.” Explains Miss Pop who also created a ‘Glam Glitter’ look in addition to the ‘Opalescent Nudes’ for the show.
However, if nudes aren’t your thing, bright iridescent manicures are also trending. Miss Pop recommends adding a shimmery shade over your favorite polish. “‘Leia’ is literally a Unicorn, it’s this opalescent glitter that’s just picks up light and shimmer and brings rainbow, unicorn magic to your nails, or opalescence if you’re an adult. I literally put it over everything …”
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Golden Hour Highlights at Any Hour
Lead Stylist Anthony Cole created voluminous, wind-blown, bouncy hair with soft subtle highlights mimicking the beautiful hues right before sunset for Prabal Gurung. “You’re going to have all different tones in the hair as the sun goes down, your color changes,” Cole explains. Backstage Cole and his team, colored extensions with Wella Color Touch to add into the hair. “We’re using more golden, cinnamon, pinkish, peachy tones on our blondes… tucked in underneath so that when the wind blows, just that little touch of color will [shine through] with the lighting … On the darker hair, we’re using more violet tones.”
The key to golden hour color is keeping it soft and subtle, focusing on the actual hues your individual color picks up at that time of day. “Everything that we’re doing has to blend it… it has to look like it belongs,” Cole stresses.
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But that’s only one part of Cole’s gorgeous look. For the natural, wind-blown effect, Cole starts with Wella Ultimate Repair, “it [works in] 90 seconds. You spray it onto the hair, it smooths the cuticle down creating a beautiful palette to work on. Then in the roots, we’ve been spraying Wella EIMI Body Crafter, we brush it through and then when we blow dry, we get this really cool, soft volume” which paired so well with an outdoor runway show and would look equally as beautiful walking down the street.
There’s no need to wait for spring 2025 to recreate your favorite looks at home! There is no better time than now to play around with runway looks and make them your own
—Janine Silver
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