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Amethyst Glaze: the cool-toned glazed lip
The Amethyst Glaze is a glazed lip with a barely-there cool violet cast, so the mouth reads as wet crystal, not as purple. It takes three steps: a…
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Dated trend reports, the looks we start, and the stories behind the shades.
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Amethyst nails: how to wear purple in 2027
Purple is the nail colour of 2027 because it was the only saturated colour shown at more than one New York spring 2027 show, Pantone put Lavender Oil…
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Cloud Dancer nails: the white of 2026, three ways
Cloud Dancer is Pantone 11-4201, the colour of the year for 2026, announced on 4 December 2025. On nails it is worn as a sheer milky white in one or…
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Eyeliner trends 2027: purple haze, gold corners and glossed lids
The spring 2027 shows in New York, held 11 to 16 September 2026, put colour back on the lash line: lilac and gold lids, amethyst cat-eyes, icy and…
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Festive nails for December: Sinterklaas, Christmas and New Year
December 2026 nails follow the autumn trend reports: jewel tones with a high gloss, velvet and cat-eye finishes in plum, dark metallics and milky…
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Gold-veined lips: the kintsugi lip
Gold-veined lips are a natural or berry lip with one hairline gold line drawn from the cupid's bow, like a kintsugi repair, sealed under clear gloss.…
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How we name our shades: stones, hours and light
Nail polish shade names follow a system in every serious house: Chanel numbers its shades, Hermès named its first 24 for an address, OPI writes puns.…
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Moonstone lips: the modern frost
Moonstone lips are a milky, blue-white opalescent sheen worn thinly over a bare or balm-prepared lip, a frost without the silver of 2002. It takes…
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Nail polish trends for autumn and winter 2026 to 2027
The nail trends for autumn and winter 2026 to 2027 are jewel tones with a high-gloss finish, magnetic velvet and cat-eye in plum and garnet, dark…
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Spring 2027 nail trends, from the runways
The spring 2027 nail trends from the New York spring and summer 2027 runways, shown in September 2026, are amethyst and violet cat-eye, pearlescent…
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The gilded cupid's bow: gold light on one point of the lip
The gilded cupid's bow is a lip look with gold sheen on two points only: the cupid's bow and the centre of the lower lip, over a sheer plum or nude…
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The lip stack ritual: liner, colour, top, in 15 seconds
The lip stack ritual is a three-layer lip combo: a lip liner, a tinted glaze and a clear top gloss, applied in that order and numbered 1, 2 and 3,…
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The making of the Amethyst Edit
The Amethyst Edit is the first edition of India Anaïs, released in autumn 2026: ten nail lacquers numbered 01 to 10, designed around one colour code…
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The mani-lip match: one shade, one finish, nails and lips
The mani-lip match is a look in which nails and lips wear the same shade in the same finish: a sheer violet jelly lacquer with a sheer violet glaze,…
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Violet Cola lips: the cola lip in plum and blackcurrant
Violet Cola lips are the cherry-cola technique in purple: a deep plum liner filled in over the whole lip, a blackcurrant-red gloss pressed onto the…
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