Lipstick

It's time for young women to start wearing lipstick again.  Gloss has been popular for too long, it's too much a part of the sweet/girly thing that is so over, and it's too wishy-washy of a statement for the more supercharged, ultrafemme style that I think is going to be in again.

Women over 35 wear lipstick all the time.  It's specifically younger women who are going to start getting into lipstick -- even teenagers.  It will be a "strong lip" -- no "natural" shades, but plenty of unnatural reds and pinks (but on the cooler side, not coral).  All the easier-to-wear stains, sheers, and cremes will ease the transition, but the real hard-core look will involve traditional matte or semi-matte full-coverage lipsticks.  I'm even thinking that some frosted shades could be quite hip-looking.

And I don't think this has to mean a neutral eye.  Hopefully it will mean at least slightly less eye makeup for certain people, but I think that whole idea of focusing only on the eyes or lips is really overdone, old-fashioned, and safe.  What about a real, made-up face?