Looks are served...

1 Nude lips, smokey eyes

Hydrated matte nude lips paired with smokey eyes is what was seen in celebrity weddings – note Sonam Kapoor’s and Deepika Padukone’s bridal looks. Nude lips make the eyes look dramatic and flatter almost every skin tone.


2 Beauty oils

Face oil, body oil, hair oil, cleansing oil, primer oil – ‘oil was well’ with beauty. Oils got a pride of place this year on your beauty shelf and was used as a makeup base or to get glowy skin. This trend is likely to spill over to 2019.

3 Rose gold tan

The glowing from within skin look was all over 2018. Blending bronzer with blush was quite the rage.

4 White liner

Bold white liner and even grey liner and eyeshadow was huge.

5 Dual eyeliner

Picking up two shades of eyeliner (like blue with black or gold with green) and applying one to upper lid and the other to the lower lid was big.

6 Go blonde

Platinum blonde, sunkissed reds or white, the head was lighter and brighter. In 2019, the sayno-to-colour and going grey movement is pegged to stay strong.

7 Graphic nails

The wine reds and pinks stayed on but more funky colours and interesting nail art with abstract lines, curves, and clean graphics were all over this year.



5. BRAID-Y BUNCH Braids, especially cornrows, was popular. But cornrows carry the tag of cultural appropriation because of its origin.