Throwback Thursday: Minimal Effort
Throwback Thursday offers the perfect opportunity to pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hairinspiration.
The Model: Tully Jensen
The Moment: Naturally beautiful
The Motivation: Red-carpet watchers might have noticed an increasing move toward more natural beauty looks of late (see both the Oscars and the Met Ball); even the backstage trenches seem to be favoring a similar aesthetic, particularly with nails, which have been overwhelmingly nude for the past few seasons. But beauty is cyclical, as we realize more and more, and a fresh face with minimal manicuring has gotten plenty of play before. Behold, a 1989 image of Tully Jensen, sans blush and sans brow grooming, embracing a neutral mouth and a wee bit of chocolaty brown eye pencil beneath her lower lash line. From her flawless (and contour-less) face to her effortlessly tousled hair, this is a look we find ourselves gravitating toward more and more as the days get longer—and warmer—and an unfussy regimen becomes evermore appealing. You too?
Throwback Thursday: Flower Power
Throwback Thursday offers the perfect opportunity to pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hair inspiration.
The Model: Drew Barrymore
The Moment: Daisy Chain
The Motivation: Our explanation for selecting this picture could easily just have read, “Remember nineties-era Drew Barrymore?” but we couldn’t help but elaborate, mostly because the material is there. Aside from being in a spring-y mood (despite the downpours that have besieged New York for the past 48-hours), we’d be remiss not to notice the coincidence between this Mark Seliger-lensed Rolling Stone story and Barrymore’s latest endeavor, the Walmart-chartered beauty line, Flower. Born from the actress’ love of makeup, and her desire to impart a little of the knowledge she has picked up from her years spent in the makeup chair, the 181-piece color range contains everything from foundation to lipstick—as well as a gorgeous ad campaign, although we have a suggestion if Drew is looking to do something archival for next season…
Throwback Thursday: Lash Out
Throwback Thursday offers the perfect opportunity to pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hair inspiration.
The Model: Malgosia Bela
The Moment: Double Lashes
The Motivation:With the Met Costume Institute Gala just four days away, it seems like the whole world’s gone punk crazy—which is why it pays to remember just what makes something, well, punk (click here for a refresher course from some of the movement’s enduring ambassadors). Beauty-wise, the term often conjures images of piercings, chopped-up, bleached-out locks, and a mess of black eyeliner, but leaving its legacy at that is almost missing the point, as far as we’re concerned. In matters of powders, pigments, and peroxide, punk is really about pushing the envelope—going against the grain to create something wholly individualistic that strays from the everyday. Case in point: nineties catwalk queen (and Alexander Wang Fall 2013 runway star) Malgosia Bela’s spiky double lashes in this 1992 Paris Vogue editorial. They’re not necessarily the face-painting fare you’d associate with a shiny black nun’s habit (although, to be honest, we’re not sure what is), but paired with a clean complexion that’s devoid of any trace of makeup, those four thick lashes become an unexpected focal point of the look—and definitely buck convention.
Naomi Campbell: Still Having More Fun
Never mind the coterie of A-listers that have gone red recently. Rachel McAdams, Megan Fox, and Scarlett Johansson’s collective auburn dye jobs seem like old news compared to Naomi Campbell’s return to blonde. The nineties supe with the extra-long, chocolaty locks—which are often accessorized with now-you-see-them, now-you-don’t bangs—dons a head full of gold-tinged strands on the cover of the thirty-eighth-anniversary, May issue of Vogue Brazil, courtesy of Oribe with styling by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. But we’ll remind you that The Face coach is plenty familiar with flaxen. Some spur-of-the-moment archival-image research has made it clear that not only did Naomi rock Beyoncé-caliber gilded extensions for much of the early nineties, she’s as super today as she was then. Don’t you think?
Throwback Thursday: Liza With An “L” (For “Liner”)
Throwback Thursday is a new feature on Beauty Counter in which we pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hair inspiration.
The Model: Liza Minnelli
The Moment: Lower-Lash-Line Liner
The Motivation: As huge Arrested Development fans, we were more than a little excited when we heard that an entire new season of the cult-favorite show will be released on Netflix—all at once—on May 26, reuniting us with one of our favorite characters: the vertigo-afflicted Lucille 2, played by Liza Minnelli. It’s one of the legendary performer’s most memorable parts, next to her appearance in Bob Fosse’s 1972 film Cabaret, of course—and her decade-spanning role as an enduring beauty icon, as evidenced by this Steven Meisel-lensed shot circa 1990. It’s hard to know exactly where to begin with this picture, so we’ll just convey our excitement with a series of exclamations: those squared-off brows! That diffused, smoky cat-eye! The punky, black-rimmed lower lash line that’s reminiscent of Aaron de Mey’s “futuristic maharaja” homage backstage at Kenzo’s Fall show! Even if you haven’t jumped on board the Arrested Development bandwagon, you’ve gotta love this.