London Fashion Week Spring 2022: The Best Hair and Makeup Moments From the Runways

A heavy fringe and face-framing layers felt very Twiggy-esque at Paul Costelloe’s spring 2022 show (a style created by hairstylist Cos Sakkas), a vibe that was amplified thanks to the matte blue shadow, spidery lashes, and crystals arrange in a half-moon shape along the brow bones.

Makeup artist Vincent Ford called the stacked winged eyeliner at at Rixo spring 2022 “a Bardot inspired cat eye flick that is timeless but modernised with a hint of blue, green, and pink.” To create the look, he drew the first wing right along the top lashes using the new Nars Climax Liquid Eyeliner. Once the black pigment dried, he then drew a second colourful line right along the first one. The colours he used include the Nars Matcha Eyeshadow (for the green), the Nars Thrill Blush (for the pink), and the Nars Outremer Eyeshadow (for the blue).

The clothes in Paul and Joe’s spring 2022 collection were colour, whimsy, and vibrant floral prints – combined with ’60s-style silhouettes and layering. All of this was reflected in the makeup for the show, which consisted of sweet designs painted around the models’s eyes, including rainbows, clouds, a smattering of dainty pink flowers.

A happy little cloud painted around the eyes of a model at Paul and Joe.

Makeup artist Pablo Rodriguez paid homage to the underground club scene with greasy, sooty eye shadow and a lacquered violet lipstick. “The inspiration was the morning after going clubbing,” Rodriguez, who is the directory of artistry at Illamasqua, said of the inspiration via press release.

Gold shadow goes from sexy to subversive when it was taken all the up, into, and over the brows and blended until it had an antique, burnished effect at Aadnevik’s spring 2022 show.

Labrum London designer Foday Dumbuya, who recently created the Olympic uniforms for Sierra Leone’s athletes, created a spring collection that blended British tailoring with West African-inspired prints and silhouettes. To compliment the collection, hair and wig specialist Johanna Cree Brown topped cropped wigs with towering turbans.

Obviously not for everyday, we love the edgy, exaggerated shapes drawn around the eyes at Green-born designer Eftychia Karamolegkou’s spring collection.

The subtle cool-red lip stains at Yuhan Wang were the perfect way to add a touch of colour on the face without clashing with the various floral prints and embroidered fabrics in the collection.

The models at Yuhan Wang with straight and wavy textures wore the front half of their hair in arranged in pin curls and decorated with flowers for a hairstyle that was equal parts romantic and quirky.

The hair and makeup for Nensi Dojaka’s spring 2022 collection had a decidedly ’90s feel with models wearing brownish-red lip colour and chignons with the ends sticking out haphazardly.