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London Fashion Week SS27 Beauty: Three Trends From the Shows
Unmade hair, bare skin and a deliberate streak of imperfection defined the season's backstage.
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Beauty at AWH Magazine treats makeup and hair as authored work rather than product placement. Pieces credit the artists, name the references, and explain how a face was constructed for a show, a campaign or a portrait. Suited to readers interested in image-making, not only in what to purchase.
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The Long Wear Question: Gel, Acrylic, Dip, and Press-Ons Compared
Four artificial nail systems, ranked by what actually matters: how long they last, what they cost, and what they take from the nail underneath.
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The Contour Blueprint: How Makeup Artists Map the Face for Camera
Contouring is less a trend than a drafting exercise — shadow placed where light would fall, and adjusted face by face.
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The Raggedy Ann Eye: How Twiggy Turned a Rag Doll's Painted Lashes Into the Face of the 1960s
In 1966, London's most photographed teenager attributed her signature eye to a childhood toy, not a makeup artist — a small, documented detail that explains why the look outlived the decade that made it famous.
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Brows and the Erased Brow: The Cycling Fashion of the Bare Lid Line
Plucked to a line in the 1920s, bleached to invisibility on today's runways — the eyebrow as fashion's most reliable pendulum.
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The Perfume Organ: How a Nose Reads a Brief
Behind every house fragrance stands a tiered keyboard of vials and a trained nose — the craft that turns a one-page brief into a bottle.