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Byline: Lynn Yaeger
Not long ago, words like feminine and romantic connoted bare, girlishly glowing skin and a dab of peony-pink gloss. This fall, they have been recast in the spirit of the season, reborn as ladylike, glamorous to a fault, soft yet somehow strong. The message for makeup: Lay it on.
This should not come as a complete surprise to anyone who cast even a cursory glance at fall runways. The slick, finished faces ran the gamut from the pale lips, smoky eyes, and deconstructed pompadours at Yves Saint Laurent to the bright-red mouths and rockabilly hairdos at Louis Vuitton. Different schools of thought, to be sure, but united in their conviction that strong makeup has stopped whimpering and is back with a bang. Even if you do not choose to cover yourself from head to toe in matte pancake base, as the models ...