Color Clash: These Daring Makeup Pairings Are So Wrong, They’re Right

This spring, makeup gets colorful with bold, in-your-face beauty that’s not afraid to stand out using vivid contrasting lids and lips. The catwalks and backstage beauty gurus have spoken, and for the new season it is all about opposing forces painted in washes of pastel or neon. From sky blue shadows paired with bubblegum and magenta pink pouts at Antonio Marras and Badgley Mischka to radiant purple lids and berry stained lips at PPQ, the result was a wonderful rainbow of faces. If you thought spring evoked visions of petal glosses, rosy cheeks and sheer shimmery eyes, think again. This season, the beauty trend to test drive is daring, dramatic and dare we say, surprisingly easy to pull off.

Spring forward with an edge using these inspirational runway makeup looks to pair together, from lashline to lipline.