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28 Spring Beauty Looks You Can Wear Now

These hair, makeup and nail trends are already on our radar
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Nail Trend: All Lined Up
Nail art isn't going anywhere -- whether it's at Fashion Week or IRL -- but the trends for spring are slightly toned down. Nearly identical clean white manicures with horizontal lines turned up at Erin Fetherston (top right) and Kate Spade (bottom left). Manicurist Gina Edwards used Kiss Products to create a gold stripe at Fetherston and Deborah Lippmann used polish from her own line to create a sharp black line at Kate Spade. Meanwhile, at Tibi, manicurist Jin Soon Choi drew dots in a line to look like stitches. And at Prabal Gurung, Choi used Sally Hansen polish (part of a collaboration with the designer) to draw horizontal stripes on a blank background.

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Nail Trend: Negative Space
Negative space manicures layer color or designs over a clear background. Even if you're staunchly anti-nail art, you might be able to get behind this trend. Plus, if you opt for color at the tips like the look from Sophie Theallet (bottom left), you can't tell when your nails begin to grow in. And if you choose color at the half moon like the look from Delpozo (top left) or Chris Gelinas (bottom right), it's impossible to detect chips. At Misha Nonoo (top right), Sally Hansen celebrity manicurist Tracylee used vertical strips of tape to create negative space down the middle of a matte white mani.

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Nail Trend: Monet-Inspired Watercolors
Watercolor nail art may seem complicated, but you can easily get the look with a sponge and the ability to completely disregard perfectionism -- messy is good. At Tracy Reese (top left), Sally Hansen celebrity manicurist Tracylee used three custom shades to create a pebble-like effect. She painted the nails, and then wiped most of it off with a brush. Meanwhile, at Opening Ceremony (top right), CND manicurists dropped acetone remover on top of still-wet polish to give it a marbleized look. At Nanette Lepore (bottom right), manicurist Julie Kandalec used Essie Mint Candy Apple and dabbed the color with a sponge. And at Rebecca Minkoff, manicurist Michelle Saunders applied a top coat while the Essie colors underneath were still wet. This dragged and blended the shades, making it look like a bleeding watercolor.

According to the New York Fashion Week runways, the two biggest beauty trends for spring 2015 are basically invisible: bare makeup (some makeup artists went so far as to call it "grooming" the face) and undone, not-quite-wavy but not-quite-straight hair.

You can get ready in five minutes and be perfectly on-trend. It's great … except it's boring as hell. So we reread our notes (from more than 30 shows) and sifted through hundreds of recaps from hair, makeup and nail experts detailing other Fashion Week beauty trends. And, miraculously, we were able to find a few that involved a pop of color or glimmer of creative genius. These spring beauty trends may not be the biggest, but they'll be so much more fun to recreate.
BY DAWN DAVIS | SEP 16, 2014 | SHARES
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