Hot off the catwalk - this season's beauty trends have never been more exciting, or more easy to re-create yourself!

…….in the form of eyeshadow and nail polish – or lipstick if you are especially dark skinned or brave!

Purple eyeshadow is one of the only ‘colour colours’ (excluding neutrals) that looks great on everyone – see – you learn something everyday! Go and be a know-all and tell ALL your friends.

Purple eyeshadow is trendy in all forms – pale, bright, plumy you name it – but the hottest way to wear it is to go for a bright, deep-ish purple – and sweep it wet over the upper-lash line with a thin brush to create a line, rather than full lid coverage.

If you are more of a shrinking violet and prefer subtle makeup or you want to translate this trend in to something you can wear at the office, covering the whole lid with a creamy lavender eyeshadow looks fabulous - see below: M.A.C created this look at Hailwood using Electra Eyeshadow.

It is very important when you create this look that you use foundation to remove any redness from your complexion and keep the lips as close to your natural colour as possible or a subtle berry hue!

The look low-down: hair is side parted and the hair is drawn around the opposite side of the parting and fixed in a loose, undone bun or twisted and pinned to the head. Pieces of hair are normally left free at the front.

Absolutely the biggest hair trend for the coming seasons is the super-chic, super-sexy side bun – a runway trend that can totally be worn in real life (yes this phenomenon exists).

Note: Also very trendy are wavy side ponytails, braids and just generally sweeping your hair all to one side -pretty simply huh!

Walk the line (er)

Liquid eyeliner is not a newbie by any stretch, but this new take on it is one hot trend you should go to beauty jail for not using this year. Click here for a super-dooer easy lesson in applying liquid liner - if I can do it, so can you!

The liquid liner trend for this season goes a little bit like this.

Flawless foundation, very very very nude lips, a teeny bit of bronzer on your cheeks, super groomed brows and a tidy, elegant line of black liquid liner on your eyes with a wee flick out to the side – so easy, so chic – so fashion! Check out M.A.C's simple black liner look for Chelsea Thorpe at ANZFW (below).

 

Tip: great nude lips for this look can be created by applying foundation over your lips and then adding liberal amounts of clear gloss.

Red lippy has always been a huge trend but this season it's appearing in its most classic, chic form.

Wear your red lippy with totally flawless, slightly pale skin, nude eyes, a hint of colour and highlighter on the cheeks.

From fire engine to merlot, red is hot, so wear it!