Favorite backstage beauty spies for LFW

New York Fashion Week is a big old corporate production. It's slick and shiny and expertly packaged. London Fashion Week is a different kettle of fish. There's more indie goodness, it's a bit more interesting and individual. All four fashion weeks are great to get an idea of what sort of cosmetics we'll probably be wearing in the next 9 months.

But I like LFW for the coolest beauty inspiration... apparently this fall we'll be back to burgundy lipstick (thank goodness I still have my Revlon in Black Cherry) and in poufy hair with headbands.

My favorite sites to follow the fun:

Stylist Magazine's backstage beauty blog (images above from this fab blog)

TopShop Inside Out

The amazing Fashion Week microsite on Asos.com

Grazia, of course

And here is a quick and sexy roundup of backstage beauty at NYFW. Thinking the 'Apres-Sex' look at Michael Kors is my favorite. Flushed and mussed and glowy. All good.

BEAUTY OP-ED | Iris Apfel + MAC + Bill Cunningham New York + Things that are things

 If you're a writer, you're always looking for repetition, for snippets and tidbits to prove they're a thing. I need something to show itself to me a few times before I think it's a thing and believe it's worth writing about.

This thing I have now is definitely a thing. Mind you, I do live under a rock in Chicago in near-complete solitary confinement for most of my waking hours, so there's a (very good) chance this thing has been a thing for an age and only just arriving under my rock right now, very late. In fact I know it's been a thing but the people who are a part of this thing are having a bit of a thing renaissance after not being so thingy for a while.

In any event, it's a stylish, beautiful, fascinating thing to me all the same and I'm glad to share.

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EXPERT SECRETS | Backstage beauty tips

HAVE YOU ever wondered why models’ skin always looks so luminous even though they’re notorious for having bad skin (thanks to a poor diet and lifestyle)? Or how their vertiginous hairstyles stay in place? All is not as it seems in the world of backstage beauty thanks to a few ingenious tricks from stylists and makeup artists. Over the years, I’ve learned quite a few of these tricks of the trade. My favorites? The big tease, applied arts and owning it...

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Originally written by Jessica Teas for Smarter Beauty Blog in a three-part series. Image credit: flickr.com/photos/37210152@N02/3675088916/sizes/m/in/photostream/