“It’s about a beautiful urban explorer,” said the makeup artist Lynsey Alexander backstage at Topshop Unique’s fall/winter 2017 show. “She’s a girl who likes to have fun.”

Taking Danny Boyle’s cinematic ode to hedonism — the 2000 film “The Beach” — as the transportive starting point, Alexander created a deconstructed makeup that featured heavily clumpy mascara. Layers and layers of Topshop’s False Lash Intense Mascara were applied from the bottom before squishing the lashes together with tweezers. Alexander then added a beachy pout using the burnished hue Lip Kit in Crazy Beautiful (which hits stores in March). “It’s a paint that we’re layering up in the center of the lips and then blurring out at the edges,” she explained before pulling out her secret weapon — a mattifier to give the lips a stamped-on tone that felt more natural and undone.

This lived-in finish played off against the polished hair, which the hairstylist Duffy called “super clean, super sleek and super flat — it’s babe hair.” Duffy went to town with product, liberally applying L’Oreal Professionnel’s Tecni Art Pli, before getting to work with a straightening iron. He smoothed half-inch sections of the hair all the way out from the head, wherever it falls, for an anti-layered look that was enhanced with extensions. Hair was then given an ultrastraight baseline cut to match both their hair’s natural length — and the booming Moby beats that blasted out onto the runway. Duffy wanted the bluntness to contrast with the magpie spirit of the collection: “We’re overly ironing the hair so that when the models walk the runway it shatters like glass.” It’s cutting-edge hair to splice through the nostalgia.

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